History WebVideo / ThreeDBotMaker

As of January 31, 2024, [[https://www.youtube.com/@3Dbotmaker the channel]] has 826,000 subscribers. It has , [[https://www.facebook.com/3DBotMakerToys/ Facebook page]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiecastRacingLeague/ Facebook group]].

As of January 31, 2024, [[https://www.youtube.com/@3Dbotmaker the channel]] has 826,000 subscribers. It has its own [[https://www.3dbotmaker.com/ website]], [[https://www.facebook.com/3DBotMakerToys/ Facebook page]], and [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiecastRacingLeague/ Facebook group]].

As of January 1, 2023, [[https://www.youtube.com/@3Dbotmaker the channel]] has 742,000 subscribers. It has its own [[https://www.3dbotmaker.com/ website]], [[https://www.facebook.com/3DBotMakerToys/ Facebook page]], and [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiecastRacingLeague/ Facebook group]].

** {{Inverted|Trope}}} with the "Dirty Sweep"; beginning with [=KotM=] 4, Tournament 2, any car/driver who [=DNF=]s all four laps is said to have accomplished a "Dirty Sweep". 2D even made a special title card and music riff to play for one of these that first plays in qualifying group 11.

* TheHeavy: Terry Hill in King of the Mountain, brought in by 2D as a "fixer". In fact, one of the cars he drives is named "The Heavy." (making a Double Pun as the car itself had a lot more weight than most of the other cars).

* AuthorAvatar: A computer-animated version of 3D appears in various videos, and a computer-animated version of 2D appears in some ''King of the Mountain'' episodes. These were later replaced by little toy miniature figures of them.

* CelebrityEdition: Sort of what the 2020 Fast & Famous Car Tournament was, except instead of celebrities, it was characters competing against each other. [[Characters/JamesBondTheCharacter James Bond]] ended up winning the tournament in a 1:64 scale version 1963 Aston Martin [=DB5=] from ''{{Film/Skyfall}}'', claiming the last spot in the 2020 championship race.

** {{Subverted|Trope}} with UsefulNotes/McDonalds; the Race City set originally had a McDonald's restaurant set within the second hairpin turn, but in the first race of the second tournament of ''King of the Mountain'' season four, it's shown to now have been "demolished". Dialogue between 3D and 2D has the former give an InUniverse explanation that it was taken down because it "violated a zoning law" causing "spectator view obstruction". However, as some YouTube comments believe, it's likely that the real McDonald's Corporation's lawyers caught wind of the channel and sent [=3DBotMaker=] a cease and desist order to take down the prop for unauthorized use of their brand, especially considering that the restaurant is only referred to as "Mickey D's" (a RealLife nickname for the chain) in dialogue.

* DoubleKnockout: Or in this case, a Double DNF (did not finish). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF_DByH6dPA The ninth qualifying race]] for the first tournament of the 2020-21-22 ''King of the Mountain'' season was abandoned after the cars couldn't get through the second turn without flipping over.[[note]]Though one of them, a modified How Wheels 1969 Dodge Coronet Super Bee named "Flames P.R.", did ''not'' flip over in one race, but was stopped in its tracks by its flipped-over opponent, a Hot Wheels Plymouth Superbird named "The Big Wazu".[[/note]] This is odd because if a car meets the length and weight requirements, the car then must complete a solo run in order to be able to race. This meant that the two cars completed a solo run to get to this point.

The DRL videos are known for their high-quality production values, with graphics, close-up shots of cars, having multiple [=GoPro=] cameras stationed throughout to provide different angles, and Johnson providing play-by-play commentary (though he goes by "3D" instead of using his real name). Much like Greg Woods does for events on WebVideo/JellesMarbleRuns, Johnson creates personalities and backgrounds for each competitor with his commentary.

* OnlyAFleshWound: On the old Race Mountain, cars would have terrifying crashes that in real life would gravely injure or kill someone, but somehow the cars would be able to continue. Very rarely was a driver injured in a crash.

A California-based [=YouTube=] channel run by a man named Adriel Johnson that features downhill races between various 1:64 scale diecast toy cars. Johnson got into the diecast racing business in 2014, when, while doing races with his two sons on tracks he built himself, realized that determining winners of their races was difficult. He purchased a 3-D printer, and used it to construct an electronic finish line designed specifically for Hot Wheels four-lane tracks. The result was a product where the number of the lane of the winning car would light up upon passing the finish line.

However, it was when Johnson constructed a track made from the Sizzlers Fat Track first sold by Mattel in the 1970s that his channel took off. The Fat Track allows the cars to move freely during the race, meaning they can go from lane-to-lane. The track took shape for what would eventually be named Race Mountain Speedway: a long drop down to a banked left-hand turn leading to a straightaway that led to a banked right-hand turn which led to the finish line straight. The first event was a tournament between he and his sons, but, as his subscriber count began to grow, he wanted his subscribers to get involved.

In August of 2018, the channel reached 1,000 subscribers. The following month, Johnson created the [=3DBotMaker=] Underground Racing League, overseeing its new "king of the hill"-style drag racing competition, ''King of the Mountain''.

At the end of the 2018 season, Johnson tore down Race Mountain to make it bigger, expanding it to 35 feet in length. But for 2020, he tore down the track again, this time making it much bigger, making it look more like a mountain with a traditional American road complete with double-yellow lines and white stop lines. He also added a banked right-hand turn at the top of the track, meaning that races would now start on the left-hand side of the viewer's screen instead of the right-hand side. In the summer of 2022, the channel moved out of Johnson's garage, and into a bigger place. Neither Race Mountain 2.0 nor the new DRC track that was introduced in late 2021 were moved, meaning all three series will have a new track. Race Mountain 3.0 was introduced in October of 2022 in time for the Pontiac Fiero Tournament. It is, essentially, the original Race Mountain doubled in size, with five hairpin banked turns, and six straightaways, whereas the original version had two such turns and three straightaways. On Race Mountain 3.0, the lane divider extends to the exit of the second turn. Also, like the original, races once again start on the right-hand side of the viewer's screen.

In 2020, a third series was added to the channel: the [=3DBotMaker=] Diecast Rally Championship, where diecast rally cars compete on a separate course from the other two series. In August 2021, a fourth series debuted, the channel's first team-based series: the [=3DBotMaker=] Diecast Demolition Derby.

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* DisastrousDemonstration: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF_DByH6dPA The ninth qualifying race]] for the first tournament of the 2020-21-22 ''King of the Mountain'' season was abandoned after the cars couldn't get through the second turn without flipping over.[[note]]Though one of them, a modified How Wheels 1969 Dodge Coronet Super Bee named "Flames P.R.", did ''not'' flip over in one race, but was stopped in its tracks by its flipped-over opponent, a Hot Wheels Plymouth Superbird named "The Big Wazu".[[/note]] This is odd because if a car meets the length and weight requirements, the car then must complete a solo run in order to be able to race. This meant that the two cars completed a solo run to get to this point.
-->'''3D''' ''(after the fourth race attempt ends in failure and ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''[='s=] LosingHorns sound effect plays)'': And that is it. Stick a fork in it, this race is ''over'' and ''done''. I guess there's a first time for everything; there's our first [[DoubleKnockout double DNF]]. They say it's "MOPAR or no car"; in this case, it's "no car". [[TheSnackIsMoreInteresting This tofu is delicious.]]

As of October 2022, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjN5K3IYZgz-vCWhI_DD01A the channel]] has 717,000 subscribers. It has its own [[https://www.3dbotmaker.com/ website]], [[https://www.facebook.com/3DBotMakerToys/ Facebook page]], and [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiecastRacingLeague/ Facebook group]].

* AuthorAvatar: A computer-animated version of 3D appears in various videos, and a computer-animated version of 2D appears in some ''King of the Mountain'' episodes.