Right, Where Do We Begin?
Today we received the new Minichamps schedule, which covers the next five weeks. And there’s a real belter on the last week of it!
First things first though; next week we will see Casey Stoner’s 1:12 2007 Moto GP championship winning Ducati Desmosedici (PO70027).
The following week we will see the two 1:12 2007 Tech 3 Moto GP Yamahas of Makoto Tamada (PO73006) and Sylvain Guintoli (PO73050).
The middle week of the schedule, for the week beginning 19th April, we will see Loris Capirossi’s 1:12 2007 Ducati (PO70065), and the four 1:43 2007 WTCC BMWs of Andy Priaulx (P072601), Jorg Muller (P072602), Augusto Farfus (P072603), and Alessandro Zanardi (P072604).
Things go a bit quiet for the fourth week of the schedule, in anticipation for the first week of May, when we will finally see the 1:43 Jenson Button First Win special, from the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix (DC26412H)! That will only be three months short of three years since it was originally announced! We also hope to see the 1:18 version (DC2612H) follow shortly in June.
We will also see Roberto Rolfo’s 1:12 2007 Honda Fireblade (PO71244) released in the first week of May. I was going to say that James Toseland’s example (PO71252) should follow shortly, but then remembered that on the 27th February 2008 we saw Dani Pedrosa’s 2006 Honda RC211V released (PO61026), and over a year later are still waiting to see his team-mate Nicky Hayden (PO61069)! So I’m not making any assumptions on that!
We now know the specifics of the Minichamps price rise that will take effect on Thursday. Their 1:12 classic bikes will be going up to £79.99, and their 1:12 Rossi bikes will be going up to £54.99.
On four wheels, all road cars will be coming in at £26.99 and all race cars at £34.99. Most 1:18 replicas will be going up by £5 each.
So, order any in-stock Minichamps replica from us by Thursday and you will beat this latest price increase. We are also offering all in-stock Minichamps replicas with free postage until Thursday morning. Just type MINPNP into the offer code box and hit validate to take advantage of it (please note that if you add non-in-stock Minichamps items to the basket then you will be charged postage on those).
