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2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

For those that don't have room for a full size garage setup

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**Sets urgent reminder to call into Home Bargains sometime very soon**

Was that the only set they had on the shelves? A branch near-ish to me still has some of the service centres available, but I've yet to see more from the Matchbox range in there.

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Following on from yesterdays TRAX Holden EJ set, here's a TRAX Holden HR set. The HR looked like a 1964 Opel Kapitän/Admiral/Diplomat with round headlamps.

Again great detail but this time with three different specifications.

Standard Sedan

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The Special Sedan with extra chrome a two-tone paint

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and finally the Premier Sedan with all the bells and whistles.

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44 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

**Sets urgent reminder to call into Home Bargains sometime very soon**

Was that the only set they had on the shelves? A branch near-ish to me still has some of the service centres available, but I've yet to see more from the Matchbox range in there.

Yep it's a newly opened larger store but they're already looking a bit low on stock. That one seemed to be the only option available though

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Mail call today courtesy of @Spottedlaurel:

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Oh yes! A very nice Lesney King Size Mercury Commuter.

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I've had a few of the later Speed Kings race support versions of the Commuter with nylon wheels pass through my sweaty mitts, but never an early police one with the steerable wheels.

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It's great - in broadly similar condition to the rest of my King Size cars, so just lightly worn.

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It would have been nice if Lesney had continued developing this line with further Corgi/ Dinky sized offerings - I can think of others from the 1-75 range which would have looked pretty neat scaled up, like the VW 1500 and Mk2 Cortina.

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But it seems that the Hot Wheels flap of the late '60s panicked Lesney into thinking that the future lay in huge-engined fantasy castings painted brightly - so these lovely little models were bastardised into (what some might consider) lairy speed-wheel parodies of themselves.

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I must dig out the others as - thanks to the efforts of the top folks on here - I now have a full set of the King Size cars, and their smaller counterparts from the miniatures range!

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Oof.

Back of the net.

Avengers: Infinity War

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I have a few of those Mercury, Especially the later yellow race support team. I cannot remember where I saw it but there was a prototype in the seventies for a tow truck that for whatever reason got canned along with Matchboxes interpretation of the Chubb Fire Tender. 

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7 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

**Sets urgent reminder to call into Home Bargains sometime very soon**

Was that the only set they had on the shelves? A branch near-ish to me still has some of the service centres available, but I've yet to see more from the Matchbox range in there.

Could you get 2 of those service centres?  As per usual can find anything round here. Ta

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Take a look at my Polfi
She's the only one I got
Not much of a Polfi
I never seem to get a lot

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It took a jumbo, across the water
All the way from Athens

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Polfi Toys S.A., Potiris - Lalos - Fragopoulos, 6 Chr. Lada Str., 121 32 Peristeri, Athens, Greece, tel. (01) 5739 911

It’s really shonky
But it was 20p, at the boot sale

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2 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Could you get 2 of those service centres?  As per usual can find anything round here. Ta

I'll certainly have a look - it's been a few weeks since I was last in that branch, but they had three last time I checked. Will see what I can do! 

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Are you starting a franchise operation?

Hey, it'd still be more use to customers than your average Kwik-Fit branch...

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Had a highly detailled dream last night that I'd found a shop selling lots of cheap old diecast, and I was going round taking photos of everything I wasn't buying myself for 'the men on the internet' to see if you wanted anything. Then went to my local Sainsbury's, which had a small toy section featuring some very nicely detailed 1:24 models of 1982 Sherpas, in panel van, pick-up, minibus body styles. £18.99 each, which seemed a bit steep but I was going to pay for it with my nectar points. Ah, but twas just a dream...

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When I was just a little boy
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be sexy? Will I be rich?
Here's what she said to me

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Buy SABRA, SABRA
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Buy SABRA, SABRA

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Buy SABRA, SABRA
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Just buy SABRA

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Gamda Koor Sabra Cadillac Eldorado

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35 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

When I was just a little boy
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be sexy? Will I be rich?
Here's what she said to me

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Buy SABRA, SABRA
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Buy SABRA, SABRA

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Buy SABRA, SABRA
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Just buy SABRA

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Very nice!

The writing on the side looks like it says ‘ELOORADO’!

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Good to see there are some more Matchbox coming through - are those from the case with the orange Kadett coupe?

I was temporarily thrilled when I spied an overflowing Matchbox tub while passing through Tesco earlier - but it was just more of the same selection offered out for months now.

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Hoping to get a look into the big Home Bargains tomorrow evening, so we'll see what's what... and could be worth my while to schedule a stop off at Poundland too.

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