I mourn the passing of decent die-cast toys. You know, like Dinky Toys, Corgi Toys, the old Matchbox (Lesney Products). The last decent die-cast planes I got my mitts on were the "Force One" ones made by ERTL. I have almost two of everything from that line.
Corgi is still around, but they make overpriced re-issues of their old stuff, or overpriced "collectors" die-cast toys.
If anybody deserves to have their stuff re-issued, it's Dinky Toys. They had the license for all the Gerry Anderson shows, so they made toys for UFO, Thunderbirds, Space 1999, etc... I still have my Eagle Transport, it's my favorite die-cast toy ever. They almost made kick-ass airplanes with battery-powered propellers. They made a Stuka that included a metal bomb that you could place a cap in, so when you dropped it, it would go "Bang" when it hit the ground. F-4 Phantom, Hawker Harrier, Spitfire, Thunderbolt, Sepecat Jaguar, NASA helicopter with Apollo capsule, Mini-Moke with airdrop package. Dinky was the coolest.
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I mourn the passing of decent die-cast toys.
You know, like Dinky Toys, Corgi Toys, the old Matchbox (Lesney Products).
The last decent die-cast planes I got my mitts on were the "Force One" ones made by ERTL.
I have almost two of everything from that line.
Corgi is still around, but they make overpriced re-issues of their old stuff, or overpriced "collectors" die-cast toys.
If anybody deserves to have their stuff re-issued, it's Dinky Toys.
They had the license for all the Gerry Anderson shows, so they made toys for UFO, Thunderbirds, Space 1999, etc...
I still have my Eagle Transport, it's my favorite die-cast toy ever.
They almost made kick-ass airplanes with battery-powered propellers.
They made a Stuka that included a metal bomb that you could place a cap in, so when you dropped it, it would go "Bang" when it hit the ground.
F-4 Phantom, Hawker Harrier, Spitfire, Thunderbolt, Sepecat Jaguar, NASA helicopter with Apollo capsule, Mini-Moke with airdrop package.
Dinky was the coolest.