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  1. 9 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

    God help me, I've even started watching unboxing videos late at night...

    Goodness me that is SO bookmarked.

    I'm determined not to find a Micro Machines Supervan City, lest I should realise that it was actually substantially more shit than I realised when I was 10.

  2. Of Gardners (and speaking from an entirely emotional perspective), am I allowed to really like the 6LYT? 

    Very occasionally, a Plaxton Paramount 4000 on Gardner-powered Neoplan underframes served on my school bus route, and I liked a) how it sounded, b) the fact that it said "Turbo 330" on the side, and c) the fact that it took off at a rate of knots compared with the Daimler Fleetlines we were usually cooped up in.

  3. 14 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

    Hiace finished:

    Makes for a nice companion piece to the Sunny Truck:

    Both utterly superb. Intricate models of subject matter that many would see as rather mundane is what I'm all about. 

    Loads of people are building 1:72 Vulcans, not many seem interested in 1:72 Hawker Siddeley Tridents.

  4. I've just been to the Co-op, from where I grabbed this from the hanging strip thing on impulse, because dem '80s Matchbox colours and because SVX.

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    No price visible, but I thought "it'll just be typical variable Matchbox / Hot Wheels pricing, and yesterday was payday".

    Got reamed for £3.

    Still, my environmentalist wife opines that "things like that should be AT LEAST £3". So that's okay.

    It's nice, anyway.

    Sent from my SM-G986B using Tapatalk

  5. 10 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

    It's one of those odd ones that looks quite unappealing in pictures, but is quite different in the hand. I like it a lot.

    Yeah!

    Also it rolls along very sweetly indeed. There's a very deliberate heft to it, both in the hand and along the tabletop.

    I had no idea it originally came with a silly Elvis figure, though. I'm actually a bit disappointed. Gives it a slight "novelty item" aspect. 

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