Ladies and Gentlemen…..It’s Wednesday Night Live from the Toy Fair!
As promised, today’s diary entry comes live from the London Toy Fair at Excel!
The good news is that the Lamborghini Reventon will be replicated in 1:18 scale, by both Burago and Mondo Motors. The bad news is that it doesn’t look like anyone will be replicating the car from the new James Bond film in 1:18 scale.
On the Minichamps importers stand, a new range was being launched call the Top Gear Collection. This will encompass several of the Supercars that have appeared on the TV show. There were also some samples of new 1:12 Rossi figures; the 2007 Jerez side saddle figure and the 2006 sitting version. Interestingly, the 2006 sitting version comes in Rossi’s ‘praying’ position before he gets on the bike.
Away from the Toy Fair, all of Minichamps new 2008 announcements can now be viewed and pre-ordered from our website. Some hot picks are Nigel Mansell’s 1:43 Williams FW10 from his first victory at the 1985 European Grand Prix (P850105), Valentino Rossi’s first MotoGP win at Japan in 2002 (PO21046), Casey Stoner’s 2007 Ducati Desmosedici replica and riding figure (PO70097) and quite a few more. Have a look in the Minichamps 2008 Announcements section and see what else you can find.
