Perhaps a Takara Tomy Tomica die-cast vehicle or a Bandai Gundam model kit.
Anyway, Bandai’s main model kits are still made in Japan.
While Tomica basic diecast toys were produced in Vietnam and maybe China.
Though I doubt the developers wouldn’t do some sort of tie-in DLC because of money, I really want them to stay away from tie-in deals as much as possible in Horizon 6. Horizon 4 had three tie-ins compared to Horizon 5’s several, and not only was it very exhausting in Horizon 5, but the crossover appeal was very minimal.
Hot Wheels was okay, but had been done before. Fast X came way too late and didn’t offer anything good. Barbie was just puzzling and awful. Universal Studios was squandered potential and bit of a joke. The nail polish thing was even more ridiculous than Barbie. The Oreo tie-in, but being Europe only was it’s only special kind of silly. The unicorn fluid Horizon 5 tie-in controller was an eyesore. I could go on.
To return to your original proposal, if they did do a product tie-in, which is inevitable, I doubt it’d be Tomica or Bandai. Neither have particularly big followings here in the West the same way Hot Wheels and Lego do. In fact, I don’t even think either are sold here domestically in the West. You have to buy them directly from Asia and have them imported. It’s not a bad idea in theory, but those brands aren’t going to be appealing enough to a Western audience, who make up a massive bulk of the dedicated playerbase. And as I already carried on, I’d rather brand tie-ins be retired as fruitless as that aspiration is.
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I enjoyed most of the tie ins in FH5 but there’s some unforced errors. A flipcar that doesn’t flip is a bit naff.
Alot of pain went into making the Deloreans stylistically distinct - respect & honour for that - but those three cars got lumped with the same customisations and skill mastry tree when there’s a clear opportunity to give each car a distinct personality with different engine options and so on.
I wish Hotwheels leaned a little more into their range that’s derived from production cars as opposed to the outright fantasy cars.
I missed the James Bond one because I wanted to get my hands on the Citreon 2CV. Alas, not to be.
I’d enjoy a Tomica tie in. Or maybe Beemax.
Transformers
The expansion could be Cybertron. A lot of the vehicles used for the G1 Autbots and Stunticons are already in the franchise, just need to get liveries. And work with Daimler on a Freightliner license for a proper G1 Optimus Prime. 2026 is the 40th anniversary of the G1 animated movie, so a number of futuristic vehicles for characters introduced in the movie could be used, like Hot Rod / Rodimus Prime, Kup, Blurr, Springer and Arcee. And 2027 is the 20th anniversary of the first Bay movie, so that could also tie in.
, THE DLC SHOULD BE ON MAIN MAP BUT DONT LET ME ENTER LIKE VISIBLE WALL THAT WILL ENCORAGE ME TO BUY IT BECAUSE I SEE IT , AND ONE MORE THING NO HOT WHEELS THIS TIME .