Brendon Vetuskey, Ronald Wong

Brendon Vetuskey — Brendon Vetuskey has worked at Mattel since 2007 and is a Staff Designer at Hot Wheels. Before Mattel, he was at Jakks Pacific; his involvement with Hot Wheels goes back to 1998, when he designed, for the company Kiddesigns, the Scream Machines (keychains with lights and sounds that replicated cars from the brand). He holds a BFA in Industrial and Product Design from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

He started in the Track and Playsets department, where he helped develop the Trick Tracks line and the Super Six Lane Raceway, was lead Monster Jam designer for a few years and managed the Entertainment team. He only moved to the car design department in 2016. Today he is lead designer for Red Line Club vehicles and co-lead for the mainline, alongside Fraser Campbell. Some of his personal cars inspired models from the brand, such as the Custom '67 Pontiac Firebird. According to an interview with the site CNCKing, he helped develop more than 25 1:64 models for collectors.

Ronald Wong — Ronald Wong is a designer from Hong Kong who has worked at Mattel since 2014, first as an intern and then as a full-time Product Designer. Today he is Lead Product Designer for the Hot Wheels Premium line. His projects include mainline, Monster Trucks, RLC, Premium 1:64 and 1:43, Elite 64, Hot Wheels Skate and playsets.

He is cited as prioritizing track performance and designing many high-end sports and exotic cars, as well as larger-scale vehicles and track sets. Outside Mattel, he photographs Hong Kong's car culture and collects Hot Wheels and other larger-scale models.