bunglebus Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Today's postal fix is the Matchbox SD1 I needed to do a WDIB, and a Siku MK3 Escort Dick Longbridge, Datsuncog, Tenmil Socket and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Corgi Metrobuses procured; Lone Star Corvair procured - all at target prices. Now heading home through an immense thunderstorm.... eddyramrod, Split_Pin and bunglebus 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 This is why I love Matchbox, you just don't get this level of detail in 1:64 anymore. Even if the mould was clearly getting worn by the time this Superfast was made Remspoor, Amishtat, Spottedlaurel and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Shamefully (having just read the last few pages excitedly) I have missed the whole “Treasure Hunt” Hotwheels thing. So having got excited over @bunglebus Irish sportscar collection: A ) How do you tell B ) What makes them special? C ) What’s the history behind them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Back to newer Matchbox, this thing glows but my phone struggles to capture it sheffcortinacentre, Datsuncog, Spottedlaurel and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 1 hour ago, bunglebus said: I'll have the Corvair if it's £5 I’m too damm slow ? It’s a cracker though ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 4 hours ago, andrew e said: Shamefully (having just read the last few pages excitedly) I have missed the whole “Treasure Hunt” Hotwheels thing. So having got excited over @bunglebus Irish sportscar collection: A ) How do you tell B ) What makes them special? C ) What’s the history behind them Last things first, not entirely sure but many years ago in 1995 Mattel brought out a Treasure Hunt series (like you get the Flames series, or Muscle Mania or whatever, just a set within the main line of cars). Later they changed it to be a car in the mainline but that has different paint etc and a TH or flame logo on the car somewhere, one in each individual box of cars sent to the shops and a different one per "case" (15 different cases every year). So there's a normal version that will appear in several cases, and probably 2 or 3 the same in each box, but the Treasure Hunt will only be in one case, and only one example of it in each box. God this sounds confusing! The Super Treasure Hunts (from 2007) are even rarer, again it'll be a normal model in the range but usually with "Spectraflame" paint, "Real Riders" wheels with rubber tyres and again the TH or flame logo somewhere. One per case so 15 a year, but they only put them in a few boxes, and won't say how many are made each year. The normal Treasure Hunts aren't really worth much more than the normal cars especially if they're some stupid thing that looks like a dog or whatever, but the Supers are worth £25 upwards it seems. They are really hard to find and I suspect we get even less of them on our so-called "short" cards (the back of the blister pack), America get a long card for some reason. Oh and Treasure Hunts have a silver flame on the card behind the car, Supers have a gold one. I'll come back later and edit this with pics to try and make it easier to understand *EDIT* Mattel in their wisdom seem to have made yet another change to Treasure Hunts. It used to be that you'd get a TH version of one of the cars that was in the range anyway - so here for example is the 69 Camaro from 2017 and the TH version See the little flame logo on the rear quarter? The green one would have been found in probably 2 or 3 different cases, the yellow one would only be in one case, and only one car in each box that was packed. Now it seems, the TH is a casting that is only released once during a year, in one case. So you won't find this... 20200728_180126 by RS, on Flickr ...in any other colour this year. Released once, that's it. This is another TH I found recently, flame logo on the rear quarter... 20200723_160316 by RS, on Flickr ...and a silver flame on the card behind the car 20200723_160325 by RS, on Flickr Super Treasure Hunts. These are a car that will be found in the normal releases, but given nicer paint and wheels etc. Sometimes they're quite different from the normal version... 20190918_115424 by RS, on Flickr ...sometimes you really have to know what you're looking for - the top one is the STH 20180926_163324 by RS, on Flickr Gold flame; 20180926_163339 by RS, on Flickr There are 15 STH's released per year, one for each case - but not in every box! Just to try and clarify things about "cases", Mattel release 15 cases of Hot Wheels per year, so you get an "A" case, a "B" case and so on. In theory each case has exactly the same cars in it (but there are differences depending where it's intended to be sold). So, when the nice people at The Entertainer pull this lot out for you to rifle through, you know you have a C case (97AC EJ) and three B cases (97AB CT, 97BB EV and another 97BB EV), plus an L case under the table. Apparently if there's a STH it's always in the top layer of cars. I've never found one still in the case so I can't confirm this. I also don't know why some have the blue seal seen on the B case in the middle of the pic - was it opened and a STH put in? 20191112_113655 by RS, on Flickr You'll probably get 30%-50% of the same cars in one case to the next, so you might find, say, the red Porsche 944 in three different cases. Each car is made in two or three different colours per year, so that 944 has been released in red, and gold. The '64 Chevy Impala gets three different colours this year. Lastly, cards. We tend to get short cards in the UK; 20200716_172803 by RS, on Flickr USA gets long cards, although they do turn up over here quite often, actually seen them in a box pre-loaded onto clip strips once 20200728_180316 by RS, on Flickr Not really any difference between them other than physical size and some of the gumph on the back, the UK cards have a code printed on them next to the hotwheels.com bit, which you can use at that site to keep tabs on what you've collected, put stuff in a wishlist and I think use the cars you've bought in online games. I don't play the games and the site can be bloody annoying as they don't update the new cars very often, and currently it won't let me log in either! The long cards also have a code stamped on the back of them which denotes which case it came from. Oh and if you look on the base of a car made in the last decade or so, there's a printed or stamped code like G17 that is the year/week it was actually made. G is 2014, H is 2015 etc I think that's about it god I'm a sad fucker warch, Datsuncog, andrew e and 7 others 3 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Much appreciated @bunglebus ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 1 hour ago, bunglebus said: This is why I love Matchbox, you just don't get this level of detail in 1:64 anymore. Even if the mould was clearly getting worn by the time this Superfast was made That's grand to see the detail up close as some of it is too small to see clearly (for me anyway). The 1600TL badge is great as it's the right font. Something only Majorette and Matchbox got right in the 1970s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 2 hours ago, MarvinsMom said: damn right DO NOT CLICK....... i've thrown better things away!! bloody Old School Ford Scene Tax even applies to slot cars!! They aren't even slot cars They are just built models. Glue-bombs, at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 59 minutes ago, Split_Pin said: The 1600TL badge is great as it's the right font. Something only Majorette and Matchbox got right in the 1970s. Even better, that model dates from 1967 (Despite the number plate being of a 1965 car) bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Right then, where were we... I may have got somewhat carried away. Individual pics - including which are staying and which are going - to follow! AndyW201, DoctorRetro, flat4alfa and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Deora II if possible. I need some surf boards for my Deora I Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Cor look at that 1930s plastic Alfa ! Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 First up, requests: a pair of Corgi Metrobuses, for @Noel Tidybeard: Since the anniversary bus is celebrating 75 years of Bradford & Leeds Trolleybuses, I'll guess it's a 1986 issue. Oddly, this one's made in China - while the Strathclyde one is stamped Made In England. Bonus points for the half-arsed semi-opening front doors. They're also filthy, but maybe that accurately reflects bus operators of the 1980s? Will add them in with your others, dude! Also, this hot ticket claimed by @bunglebus If this is representative of the Corvair's track, no wonder Ralph Nader reckoned they were unsafe at any speed... I know virtually nothing about Lone Star, but while this isn't as flash as the Corgi version with the opening engine cover, it's not a bad rendering at all. Unsure whether the number plates are original or someone's added them. I'm also not sure if it's a repaint or what - someone looks to have been busy with glue or something, as it's blobbed all over the base and round the front bumper. At least, I hope it's glue... Will set that one aside, too! Sudsprint, bunglebus, eddyramrod and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 ta muchly Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I also bagged this for myself from the tat stall: I think I might have had one just like this when I was very small - I definitely had the Datapost racing Metro - but it may have met its end in the jaws of Cog Sr's big bench vice during my short-lived but endlessly regretted 'toy scrapyard' phase, c.1986. I wasn't actively looking for a Metro for my Corgi 1/36 collection - I'd sold a nicely beige MG Turbo version on here a while back, and also a playworn plain blue example - but this is in as nice a condition as I could hope to find, so for a fiver, I went for it. Interior's a bit shockingly white, but the opening doors and boot give it a nice bit of added interest. The shape of Corgi's Metro never looked quite right, since the design team were left to make their model from whatever limited info BL would give them on their hush-hush 'New Mini' project. Really though, it's just a little bit deep in the sill, probably to give the shell casting more rigidity (though as I recall, my Datapost version cracked at the A-posts so it probably could have done with more strengthening). My grandfather - always an Austin man, apart from a solitary foray into a Marina coupe - owned one just like this in the early 90s, so it's going to be staying put. MiniMort, Amishtat, Split_Pin and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I had one just like that, also a mid blue one and one in a strange pale green. Did it have turbo on the bottom of the doors or is my memory at fault? Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 6 minutes ago, Amishtat said: I had one just like that, also a mid blue one and one in a strange pale green. Did it have turbo on the bottom of the doors or is my memory at fault? Sounds just like my Turbo - massive black tide mark with TURBO lettering, so you remember correctly! Only the boot still claimed it was an Austin, as I recall. I'd thought it was beige but there was a greenish tint, right enough... Not sure who got mine in the end! I'd 'enhanced' it with the dreaded silver pen, and every time I looked at it I just felt annoyed with myself... so it had to go. Amishtat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Ooof is that a KW Dart in there? Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Yeah, a beigeish green I suppose you could call it.. Another one that seems to have been lost to the sands of time, it's really started to dawn on me that there's only a couple of places left to look before having to declare most of my favourite childhood Corgis lost. I keep a eye open at the boot sale for possible replacements (chiefly Red Sierra and blue Acclaim) but no luck so far, despite the other pleasures it's thrown up. Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Too slow asking for the Deora - I was going to steal the surfboards for my Beach Bomb! Hot Wheels info updated up there somewhere ^^^ flat4alfa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 40 minutes ago, sierraman said: Ooof is that a KW Dart in there? It is indeed - a duplicate KW Dart, too... (though both have issues). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 24 minutes ago, bunglebus said: Too slow asking for the Deora - I was going to steal the surfboards for my Beach Bomb! If you have Beach Bomb you have already won at life and don't need anything else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 1 hour ago, flat4alfa said: If you have a Beach Bomb you have already won at life and don't need anything else! I actually had two...sold one to fund the hobby. Makes me sick when I see pics of about 12 minty ones all with their surfboards in someone's collection, either got too much money or the luck of the devil. Mattel 013 by RS, on Flickr Mattel 002 by RS, on Flickr Although the green one looks nicer, the glass was broken - I decided if I'm ever brave enough to restore it, paint is easier to rectify AndyW201, andrew e, Datsuncog and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 2 hours ago, Datsuncog said: I also bagged this for myself from the tat stall: I think I might have had one just like this when I was very small - I definitely had the Datapost racing Metro - but it may have met its end in the jaws of Cog Sr's big bench vice during my short-lived but endlessly regretted 'toy scrapyard' phase, c.1986. I wasn't actively looking for a Metro for my Corgi 1/36 collection - I'd sold a nicely beige MG Turbo version on here a while back, and also a playworn plain blue example - but this is in as nice a condition as I could hope to find, so for a fiver, I went for it. Interior's a bit shockingly white, but the opening doors and boot give it a nice bit of added interest. The shape of Corgi's Metro never looked quite right, since the design team were left to make their model from whatever limited info BL would give them on their hush-hush 'New Mini' project. Really though, it's just a little bit deep in the sill, probably to give the shell casting more rigidity (though as I recall, my Datapost version cracked at the A-posts so it probably could have done with more strengthening). My grandfather - always an Austin man, apart from a solitary foray into a Marina coupe - owned one just like this in the early 90s, so it's going to be staying put. Love it! I spotted it in your photos of the seller's stall - wonder where the box is? It looks way too clean to have been stored in any other way for almost four decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 To my amazement, I have just learnt that Budgie VWs are available again, made from the original moulds. Purchase likely! https://www.budgiemodels.com/ egg, Datsuncog and MarvinsMom 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 57 minutes ago, Dick Van Diesel said: Love it! I spotted it in your photos of the seller's stall - wonder where the box is? It looks way too clean to have been stored in any other way for almost four decades. It really is lovely, an absolute timewarp! Other than the lack of box, it's like new. Not a mark on it, no dust or anything... might be worth my while keeping an eye out for an empty box... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 Those 1/36 Metros are ace, they are almost a caricature of the real car's dumpy proportions. I like the oversized badging on the back and the fact that it's an early 'miniMetro' which I think only went up to 1982. I had a boxed red one in with that jingoistic 'British Car to Beat the World' decoration and also an unboxed blue one. For some reason I picked up another unboxed red one at a Swapmeet which is the only one left of the 3. Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 5 hours ago, Datsuncog said: What's going on, on that roof? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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