Next Peugeot 908 From Minichamps Due Next Month
Today we received Minichamps’ latest classic bike, the Laverda Jota (P122500). The final model has come with the front fairing included, which was not on the sample that we saw at Nuremberg last year.
All of you will be well up to date by now with the ‘situation’ regarding the Rossi Phillip Island Yamaha (PO73196). Also on the delivery with it on Friday was the 2002 Donington sidesaddle figure (PO20146), another pre-release sellout.
We also received the new Minichamps release schedule today. It starts off well, but then peters out quite a bit. Hopefully more subjects will find their way onto it as the weeks go by.
Next week we will see the next 1:12 Rossi figure, which, surprisingly, is the Assen victory release (PO73196). This must be the first time in Minichamps’ history that the figure is going to be released before the bike! As I write this we only have about a dozen pieces available to pre-order, so it has been taken off our website so that we do not oversell on our allocation.
Also down to be released next week is Troy Bayliss’s 1:12 2007 Ducati 999 (PO70221). This could be the last Bayliss bike we see if Minichamps decide never to replicate the 1098 from last year.
The week after that we will receive Colin Edwards’ 1:12 2007 Phillip Island Yamaha (PO73195). Aside from the ‘usual’ mix of 1:43s, that’s it! Everything in the schedule, by the way, can be seen in the ‘Minichamps Release Schedule’ tab at the top of this page.
The third week of the schedule (week beginning 16th March) sees Lorenzo Lanzi’s 1:12 2007 Ducati 999 (PO70257) released. It’s a good few weeks for bike collectors, at any rate!
We see some new 1:18 releases in the last week of the schedule; the Villeneuve/Minassian/Gene Peugeot 908 from Le Mans 2007 (PG071207), and the Audi TT Roadster in metallic blue (PG015031). There is also a re-release, the 1982 Le Mans winning Porsche 956L of Derek Bell and Jacky Ickx (PG826901).
