sierraman Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Seem to remember the Cameos being more toy like, think they would have been a few pence dearer than the regular Matchbox but not as dear as a Siku. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 As far as I can work out, the Cameo range was something of a legal workaround by the newly-renamed Corgi Classics Ltd. When Corgi's management team bought themselves out from Mattel's ownership around 1993, the new company was prohibited by the terms of release from selling toys for something like seven years, so as not to compete directly with Mattel. Mattel also kept all the Juniors tooling, re-releasing some as Hot Wheels, but relinquished the tooling for the old 1/36 stuff, since that wasn't a scale the US market much cared for. Corgi Classics then launched their Cameo range of 'classic collectables' which just so happened to be pocket-money priced and ripe for promotional use (Kelloggs, Fina), tapping into a similar vein as Lledo's Days Gone. They weren't really pitched at the same market as Hot Wheels, but they were very much toys rather than models. The re-released Corgi 1/36 stuff out at the same time came with a crappy plastic badge in the box, because apparently their legal team advised them that this could justify calling them collectables, not toys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 47 minutes ago, Datsuncog said: mostly 1980s Matchbox Specials If any of those are Turbo Specials, colour me interested. Don't recognise the yellow "taka-Q" and Bugatti EB110(?) next to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 11 minutes ago, bunglebus said: If any of those are Turbo Specials, colour me interested. Don't recognise the yellow "taka-Q" and Bugatti EB110(?) next to it Don't think there were any Turbo Specials in amongst them - just the basic ones. There was someone faffing about with jewellery and things directly in front of the diecast, so I couldn't get as close a look at them as I'd have liked. I think the Bugatti was by Maisto (at a guess?), while the Taka-Q Porsche 956 seems to be a standard Corgi Turbos release (as shown in my 1988 trade catalogue) bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Actually, flicking through the 1990 Matchbox catalogue I can see that the Matchbox Specials had apparently been absorbed into the Superkings range by then: Seems that most of the models from the stall this morning date from this kinda era. bunglebus and andrew e 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 I seem to have a pile of compact cameras found when I've been clearing shops, so I thought I'd give all of them a shot at capturing the Moggie, to see if any could do a better job than my phone which seemed to struggle. Grabbed the DSLR too Nikon D3300 Nikon S2500 Nikon A10 Fuji C10 And my phone now the light's improved Datsuncog, bicycle repairman, eddyramrod and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Quote 1986 was the last year that the 956 was permitted to race on safety grounds. By this time, the Porsche 962 had long since taken over production. As in 1985, Louis Krages did the majority of races with chassis 104. It appeared in the existing yellow, black and white livery but now with backing from Japanese fashion retailer, Taka-Q. bunglebus and Datsuncog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 IIRC the Specials were cheaper than the regular Superkings, frequently you’d get them in a pack with a couple of Super GTs. I can’t remember them holding masses of appeal at the time, despite being some oddball subjects like the Lancia. They did try to improve them later with the F40 and the XJ220 but by this time the 1/36 market was dying off. Or at least Tyco thought so... bunglebus and Datsuncog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 4 hours ago, Datsuncog said: I can't say for sure, but the side of the box indicates it's not all that far off, date-wise? Of course, it's quite possible that Corgi kept manufacturing them for Tesco into the 1990s and packing them into the same boxes, possibly after they'd stopped selling the same models in their own mainline range. Annoyingly, the big Van Kleemput Corgi book gets a bit vague on products and dates after the end of Mettoy in 1984, so I'm not all that clear on how long the C351 BRSCC Pace Car Sierra lasted in the standard range. From my (incomplete) catalogues, it appears as a new model in the 1985 range, but has disappeared by the 1988 catalogue. But equally, the C426 Hepolite Rover SD1 debuted in 1984 and was also gone from the catalogue by '88 - yet clearly Tesco still had them on the shelves near you in the early '90s. Could have been old stock from Tesco's warehouses, or could have been a way to clear out obsolete models from Corgi's stores? We'll probably never know... I'm pretty sure the base was originally white, not beige - there's a picture somewhere of me holding the Sierra the same day I got it, and also looking up into the wheelarches shows the original white colouration where the sun didn't get at it. Corgi plastics do discolour badly, unfortunately - the canopy on my Transit milk float went unpleasantly yellow too. I think I still have my yellow Juniors Sierra with the brown bumpers! I notice on your childhood one that the front indicators in the bumper are painted orange. Also, the one in the catalogues, the light bar and tampos are different. Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Things hang about in warehouses sometimes for years if some sort of dispute is going on, frequently it’s not worth the hu ha to retrieve the goods. I suspect a lot of the export only Corgi Juniors ended up like this, probably got as far as the port or a bonded warehouse and then some shit went off and they ended up written off financially and stored. They did a lot of models with Arabic local branding on that destined for the Middle East that were very unlikely to have made it back to the U.K. by collectors. Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said: I notice on your childhood one that the front indicators in the bumper are painted orange. Yeah, I did that... with a Graffic Traffic pen, c.1991 or so... not very well, it has to be said! 1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said: Also, the one in the catalogues, the light bar and tampos are different. Indeed, the Sierra Pace Car lightbar in the catalogue seems to be roughly the same overall shape as mine, but in emergency colours - flicking through the catalogue though, none of the other models seem to feature a lightbar for the 1985 year, though subsequent catalogues show the same moulding in both amber (for recovery trucks and the like) and in blue (for police vehicles). I seem to recall that the lightbar on my childhood example was amber, and the nubs still stuck in the roof bear that out, but seemingly some of them were released with the red and blue lights shown in the catalogue. This one seems to have the white wheels I remember, too, plus the towbar. I'd guess the tampo was changed as shown in the catalogue to exclude printing the front panel, making it marginally less complex to decorate - three surfaces, with two colours on each side and four colours for the BRSCC bonnet logo, was already pushing it for a mass-produced toy of its day! What intrigues me more though, was that this appeared in the Lazy Spotters' Thread back in August... Although apparently an XR4i, could this be the car that Corgi's design team drew on for their model? 155V6, andrew e, morrisoxide and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 On 11/2/2021 at 12:29 PM, flat4alfa said: Not into buses at allᵀᴹ but bought this in an antique shop on the Gloucester quays last Tuesday But it is a proper Moko Lensey, modelled on the AEC Regent and released 1957-60 as '5-B' with the revised 'Buy Matchbox Series' livery Not only that, it fulfils the need to collect 'Matchbox Livery' things. FFS Been clicking the trigger finger again Commemorative 55th Anniversary, 60th Anniversary and USA edition 2015 special job thing But I'm not into buses at allᵀᴹ Amishtat, eddyramrod and RoadworkUK 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 It’s a cry, sorry scream for help 😂 In other news check this beauty out! Don’t look at the price! https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/products/tamiya-portable-photo-studio/ eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 I'm thinking of making something similar, but using a cardboard box and white card to line it. Ideally it will fold up as it will take up valuable space, probably in my outhouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justwatching Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Alright, end of box bonanza. Half-dozen Lledo 'Days Gone' models. Purchased in Asda around mid '90s. Now the big stuff. Purchased in the Canary Islands, late '90s. 1:50 scale. Very substantial build. AndyW201, Datsuncog, eddyramrod and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Got a slight dilemma/tat purchase opportunity that might help some of you out too. Guy on another site has dug a load of his childhood tat out of the loft and suggested he might part with them. Here's the pics: I'm asking about: Hot Wheels Cannonade Hot Wheels Pepsi Challenger Hot Wheels Hi-Raker Dodge D50 Matchbox Maxi Taxi Matchbox Yellow Unimog Matchbox Cortina Matchbox Rolls Royce Matchbox Toe Joe Matchbox Ruff Trek Matchbox Pontiac Firebird T roof Matchbox yellow Gliding club Jeep Matchbox glider trailer Matchbox K-24 Container Truck Corgi Ferarri Daytona Red Corgi Sierra Silver Corgi Sierra + others? Corgi Mercs X3 Corgi Triumph Acclaim Boxed Corgi Junior Sierra Majorette J4 Siku recovery truck Siku Granadas Siku Unimog(s) (2 small 1 large) ERTL General Lee ERTL Fall Guy truck I don't know what to offer, and also wondered of there were others in there anyone might be interested in? Shame the Gama Opel has lost its glass but there's a Matchbox/Corgi Mini, the Dinky Roadsweeper etc Datsuncog and Split_Pin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyarddog Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Smoll version of the Corgi Sierra. Never seen the junior version in this livery before. Tenmil Socket, Datsuncog, morrisoxide and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted November 12, 2021 Author Share Posted November 12, 2021 2 hours ago, bunglebus said: Got a slight dilemma/tat purchase opportunity that might help some of you out too. Guy on another site has dug a load of his childhood tat out of the loft and suggested he might part with them. Here's the pics: I'm asking about: Hot Wheels Cannonade Hot Wheels Pepsi Challenger Hot Wheels Hi-Raker Dodge D50 Matchbox Maxi Taxi Matchbox Yellow Unimog Matchbox Cortina Matchbox Rolls Royce Matchbox Toe Joe Matchbox Ruff Trek Matchbox Pontiac Firebird T roof Matchbox yellow Gliding club Jeep Matchbox glider trailer Matchbox K-24 Container Truck Corgi Ferarri Daytona Red Corgi Sierra Silver Corgi Sierra + others? Corgi Mercs X3 Corgi Triumph Acclaim Boxed Corgi Junior Sierra Majorette J4 Siku recovery truck Siku Granadas Siku Unimog(s) (2 small 1 large) ERTL General Lee ERTL Fall Guy truck I don't know what to offer, and also wondered of there were others in there anyone might be interested in? Shame the Gama Opel has lost its glass but there's a Matchbox/Corgi Mini, the Dinky Roadsweeper etc Interested in the Ford D Series roadsweeper and Gama Opel (if its cheap) bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 @bunglebus The 1982 Hot Wheels Rapid Transit city bus at the back in the HW photo That's old and faded and gone all beige Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Is the Batmobile the red bat wheel version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 11 hours ago, bunglebus said: Got a slight dilemma/tat purchase opportunity that might help some of you out too. Guy on another site has dug a load of his childhood tat out of the loft and suggested he might part with them. Here's the pics: I'm asking about: Hot Wheels Cannonade Hot Wheels Pepsi Challenger Hot Wheels Hi-Raker Dodge D50 Matchbox Maxi Taxi Matchbox Yellow Unimog Matchbox Cortina Matchbox Rolls Royce Matchbox Toe Joe Matchbox Ruff Trek Matchbox Pontiac Firebird T roof Matchbox yellow Gliding club Jeep Matchbox glider trailer Matchbox K-24 Container Truck Corgi Ferarri Daytona Red Corgi Sierra Silver Corgi Sierra + others? Corgi Mercs X3 Corgi Triumph Acclaim Boxed Corgi Junior Sierra Majorette J4 Siku recovery truck Siku Granadas Siku Unimog(s) (2 small 1 large) ERTL General Lee ERTL Fall Guy truck I don't know what to offer, and also wondered of there were others in there anyone might be interested in? Shame the Gama Opel has lost its glass but there's a Matchbox/Corgi Mini, the Dinky Roadsweeper etc Depends what he’s asking for them, I’ve been looking for a yellow 1/36 Corgi Sierra but they seem to go for prices similar to what I’d have paid for a real Sierra back in the day. If he finds another Maxi Taxi could be interested. Glancing through the tops of those boxes, it’s mostly stuff I have already. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Playtime has begun: The built kits are just in here temporarily, until the other cabinet goes up on the wall in the house. I think this cabinet will be mostly diecast, perhaps with a couple of extra shelves and the interior painted, or given a mirror back, or maybe LED lighting? As well as what's on the top to unpack there are two large plastic crates to go through. The kits seem to have survived the move pretty much intact, just one snapped aerial and a loose mirror. andrew e, eddyramrod, Datsuncog and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 I'd never seen this Lone Star Merryweather fire engine before, so I grabbed it Same seller had a Rockets Marcos This, which I think is a Zylmex but I need to do some detective work And this just because it was so tidy AndyW201 and Datsuncog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Not massively into buses myself. Obviously. Waiting for Stagecoach to buy me out. No Low Floor bollocks to see here. RoadworkUK, AndyW201, eddyramrod and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Found the MC Toys Escort I remember playing with in Filey in about 1990 AndyW201, eddyramrod, Justwatching and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Ah the fantastic MC/Maisto/Corgi MK3 cab - the one that came with police lights on the soft top is my favourite AndyW201 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justwatching Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 1982 Dodge Diplomat in 1:64 by Greenlight. I also added another layer of cork to make the road more 3 dimensional. Added some road markings too, but think they could be improved. Practice should help. andrew e, sheffcortinacentre, 155V6 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 On 11/9/2021 at 3:45 PM, flat4alfa said: Argghh I've just bought a LLEDO DAYS GONE MORRIS LD VAN It's all your lot's fault Arggghh.... it's arrived Datsuncog and eddyramrod 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezzabsa Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 On 11/12/2021 at 12:34 PM, Datsuncog said: I did call into the market this morning, but there was nothing to set my heart a-flutter, in terms of diecast. Market Blokey seemed to have declined to bring the same stuff as last week - either that, or he'd already sold the Lesney Superkings stuff that had piqued the interest of some on here. I think we've seen at least some of this lot before, though. Plastic Hong Kong single-seat racers; Corgi Qualcast Turbine Truck and generic Whizzwheels Ambulance; Dinky APC (with chain tracks, but without much else) and hand truck; and various incomplete 1960s Matchbox King Size plant machinery alongside a shonky Speed Kings K-35 Lightning racer. Up top, expectations were initially high... ...but then subsided, as I realised these are mostly 1980s Matchbox Specials, with a few Corgi Turbos and a Maisto mixed through. Lancia and multiple Mustang IIIs maybe of more interest than the Le Mans style racers. Also those ropey Corgi Chittys, a paint-ruined Corgi Mini and a Dinky bus towards the back - all items that have been here before. This large but incomplete Zylmex single seater is another regular still seeking a home: But the big battery-powered plastic bulldozer was new. Not a familiar make - BPP of Hong Kong, with a catalogue number of 5001. Presumably this once came with rubber tracks - still, not a bad display piece. The Nemesis was in this morning, wearing his customary zippy top. I didn't notice what he was wearing on his feet, though - most remiss of me. He appeared to have already swiped a 1/18 Jaguar XJ220 (Maisto?) and a Ferrari 550 Maranello (Bburago?) - well, he's welcome to them. A quick scurry over to the Charity Stall revealed not much to interest either - he's managing to clear the Corgi Jag racers, slowly. Only seven left, now. And the Bburago appear to have all gone now, plus the Buddy L. I took a closer look at the big friction powered plastic fire engine today, too. Turns out it's a Marx item, in fairly good nick. It had a hole moulded in the side where it looked like a clockwork key might go, so I assume earlier examples sported a clockwork motor, while later ones went friction drive. I also enquired after the cast signs too, on behalf of @bezzabsa : Two sizes available (with roughly 1/43 Jaguar included to provide scale) - £20 for the bigger signpost one, £10 for the smaller plaque. I'll leave it with you, if you wish me to procure one or other! Ah well. Nothing of note on any of the other stalls; at least we can all be reassured that we're not missing out on much. Have a most excellent Friday, one and all. Can you grab the £10 please.....PM me with payment details...👍👍👍🤙🤘 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Justwatching said: 1982 Dodge Diplomat in 1:64 by Greenlight. I also added another layer of cork to make the road more 3 dimensional. Added some road markings too, but think they could be improved. Practice should help. What’s the soil made from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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