Sizzling Wheels is getting its personal tv present, toymaker Mattel introduced final week.
The present is titled “Sizzling Wheels: Final Problem,” and the primary episode will air later this 12 months on NBC in a primetime slot.
Rutledge Wooden, of “High Gear America” fame, has been picked for internet hosting duties, alongside Hoonigan’s Hert Eugene Jr. and Dalal Elsheikh, a Ford designer and Sizzling Wheels model ambassador.
The official description makes the present sound like a model of MTV’s “Pimp My Experience” aimed toward youngsters. In every episode, two Sizzling Wheels followers will carry their dream designs to life utilizing actual autos.
The modification work will likely be dealt with within the “Chrome Zone,” the place every contestant can have entry to a high-tech storage and a crew of consultants. They will additionally must take care of one thing known as the Inspirationator 5000, which can be a pc of some type that spits out concepts that must be built-in into the construct.
The competing designs will then be judged by a panel that can embody celebrities, and the winner will take dwelling a $25,000 money prize and the prospect to enter a last spherical the place contestants will compete for $50,000 and the honour of getting their design became an official Sizzling Wheels toy automobile.
Mattel in recent times has been increasing Sizzling Wheels to maneuver it past a line of toy vehicles. A online game was launched in 2021 and a film is within the works.