MattyCollector "Mattel Hoverboard" discussion

Still haven't received mine, no further movement from the Atlanta listing. I called Matty today and they said they'd 'open a ticket' and it'd take 2 business days to get anything back. So it'll be Wed before I hear anything. I tried emailing them on Sunday and the best I got out of them earlier this week was 'call USPS.' Figures.
 
I recieved mine the other day. Kind of dissappointed with it. thought about customizing it so it will slide across surfaces better than it does now. There are these soccer hover discs that I found online that I think would be neat to modify so it fits inside the hoverboard. What do you guys think?

Amazon.com: hover soccer
 
I recieved mine the other day. Kind of dissappointed with it. thought about customizing it so it will slide across surfaces better than it does now. There are these soccer hover discs that I found online that I think would be neat to modify so it fits inside the hoverboard. What do you guys think?

Amazon.com: hover soccer

Those look neat! Share if you do anything with those. :thumbsup
 
Three days before xmas and it turns out the ups guy stole my board. In their offices now and employee is getting interviewed.
 
At least you know what's going on Alex, mines still Mia like many others..... This long delivery time has impacted any further purchases from matty. Never have I ever had to wait more than 8 working days for something to arrive, as I'm now on 13 working and 17 total days. Thanks matty. I gave you all those months to get it too me and your going to disappoint someone for Xmas and make me look a tool for not having a present to please someone. I hope this complete mess really makes higher mattel corporation shake up the matty toy collector division...... Demotions, and a new info structure on how everything from design, management to customer service needs to be addressed.

As many have said this has been very bad for mattel as a name, if I were in charge I'd be investigating after the outrage.

Will see what comes of Monday but I really am prepared for it to have gone missing
 
After read some Scott's answers about how much the hoverboard's costs will high up if they made it as a "prop replica" way, like a "made by hand" way, I was just thinking in some kind of "challenge" (not a challenge literally, because I presume that all the work will be awesome). I'm talking about Roland's, Razorsharp's and BTTF123*'s works. I'd like to suggest you guys, to make a cost's list of all the products and labor you are spenting to change the visual of the actual Matty Collector's Hoverboard, and then, when it finished, share with us and specially with Scott Neitlich.

I'm expecting that the costs will not be so damn higher as he presumed to be. This way, we can show to Mattel and to all the Back to the Future fans/consumers, that all these simple things could be done, even with or without the lenticular thing, but too much more accurate to the movie, without higher to much the board's price.

Guys, do you consider this a possibility or am I just dreaming and Scott is really right about the high costs of trying to be more accuracy? :confused
 
cant really compare what an individual is apying at retail prices , they would be paying trade prices and getting huge amounts so would pay a fraction of what joe public does

youd think they would price things up before offering it for sale ...drop the shoddy electrics and make a accurate board
 
I'll keep a running total of the cost of upgrading mine, i was going to just put a new graphic on, but now i'm thinking of moving the footpad....which will be a fair bit more work (but still fairly easy), i'll take pics along the way
 
I'll keep a running total of the cost of upgrading mine, i was going to just put a new graphic on, but now i'm thinking of moving the footpad....which will be a fair bit more work (but still fairly easy), i'll take pics along the way

That sounds interesting! Which way are you pretending to move the footpad? Because I understood that Mattel has made it in a wrong position. Was it too down or too high?
 
(Sorry, I know it's a little late)

I feel obligated to chime in since I hosted that first Matty video for Beyond the Marquee.

-AJ


Hey, AJ! I don't think anyone around here blames you. But personally I really do appreciate you chiming in. Thanks for jumping on the accuracy in the video! It really showed through that you're just as much of an excited fan as we are.

Trying not to gush or anything, but also - you did a great job in the Telltale game. Totally nailed it. :lol
 
Wes, The footpad is too far away from the Kicktail. I think they did it so it lines up with the rear magnet. Having it too far forward makes it too close to the "Hover Board" font, so that has to be moved up, etc, etc.

Also, i've noticed that the peg hole is too close to the edge, so that the edge of the sticker wouldn't be too narrow.
 
That sounds interesting! Which way are you pretending to move the footpad? Because I understood that Mattel has made it in a wrong position. Was it too down or too high?

as Vinz said, the footpad is too far forward, it needs moving back, Mattel obviously knew it was too far forward too as they had to squash up the rest of the graphics to compensate for it being in the wrong place
 
Anyone got any details on the wire rig on one of the stunt boards? The rig that's built into the battery pack that makes the board bobble. Figure it'd be pretty easy to make something similar for the Matty board.
 
Wes, The footpad is too far away from the Kicktail. I think they did it so it lines up with the rear magnet. Having it too far forward makes it too close to the "Hover Board" font, so that has to be moved up, etc, etc.

Also, i've noticed that the peg hole is too close to the edge, so that the edge of the sticker wouldn't be too narrow.

as Vinz said, the footpad is too far forward, it needs moving back, Mattel obviously knew it was too far forward too as they had to squash up the rest of the graphics to compensate for it being in the wrong place

I understand now...

This will be a real challenge (now in the meaning of difficulty), I think...

Anyone got any details on the wire rig on one of the stunt boards? The rig that's built into the battery pack that makes the board bobble. Figure it'd be pretty easy to make something similar for the Matty board.

I don't know, but that rig remember somehow that things we put at the scalp to relax...

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Maybe we could use something like that, a little bit curved. :confused
 
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I figured I could make a stand out of four pieces of wire coat hanger. Cut to length, glue/heat shrink the middle, then bend one end to make a cup for the battery box and the other end into a tripod like stand (would a tripod with 4 legs be a quadpod? )
 
ok guys so I wanted to upgrade my matty board, but being that im already $140 in on a board im not super excited about, I wanted to do an easy and cheap upgrade so I went to hobby lobby and picked up some pink fur and green velcro for a few bucks, so here ya go.

The first is after I cut, resized and sewed the original strap. I wanted the bottom pieces of the strap closest to the foot pad to really be stuck good so I left those pieces wider while I dont really want to see the middle strap so I made it thinner.

The others are just completed shots

I have enough pink fur and velcro for another board if anybody wants it
 
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