Leigh’s Diecast Diary

Mattel started off the week by announcing a price rise that will take effect from 1st December, so it will affect all of their pre-order replicas. The odd thing is that it completely reverses the price cut that was announced at the beginning of this year.

At the start of 2009 Mattel’s 1:18 Elite road car replicas were priced at £84.99. This pricepoint was then reduced to £74.99, but this new price increase takes those replicas up to £89.99.

Mattel’s 1:18 ‘Ferraris in films’ cars were priced at £99.99 at the start of 2009. These then went down to £89.99, but have now gone back up to £99.99 again.

Mattel’s Super Elites weren’t subject to the price reduction, and have now gone up from £229.99 to £249.99.

In 1:43, Mattel’s Elite replicas will be going up from £35.99 to £39.99. The 2009 Ferraris of Felipe Massa (DC29403) and Kimi Raikkonen (DC29404) will be increasing from £29.99 to £34.99, but with Massa already released and Raikkonen due out at the very end of November, if you order before 1st December you will be able to get them at the lower price.

In other news, Minichamps today confirmed the limited edition of the 1:43 Sebastian Vettel First Win special from the 2008 Italian Grand Prix (DC29415M) as 9,999. And we sold out of the 1:12 Valentino Rossi 2007 Assen Yamaha YZR-M1 (PO73096) as well!

Welcome to the Diecast Legends Podcast, which brings you the latest releases in the world of diecast models. Another Minichamps Rossi release is introduced this week. It is that of his 2002 Honda RC211V from Suzuka, where he scored his first MotoGP victory. Robert Kubica’s BMW F1.08 from the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix is also featured and the next subject from GMP is also here, that being the Ickx/Andretti Ferrari 312PB from Daytona 1972.

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The replicas featured on this weeks podcast are;

1/12 Honda RC211V Suzuka 2002 #46 V. Rossi - Minichamps
1/18 BMW 730i 1986 Black - Minichamps
1/18 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 2004 Orange - Minichamps
1/43 BMW F1.08 1st Canadian Grand Prix 2008 #4 R. Kubica - Minichamps
1/43 Alfa Romeo 159 British Grand Prix 1951 #3 C. Sanesi - Minichamps
1/43 Ford Escort ITC 1st San Remo Rally 1968 #16 Andersson - Minichamps
1/43 Bentley Continental Supersports 2009 Black - Minichamps
1/43 Mercedes ML63 AMG 2008 Black - Minichamps
1/43 Mini Aero 2002 Yellow - Minichamps
1/43 Opel Astra Twintop Cabriolet 2006 White - Minichamps
1/43 Volkswagen Polo 1975 Orange - Minichamps
1/18 Ferrari 312PB 1st Daytona 1972 #2 Andretti/Ickx - GMP
1/18 Porsche 935 K3 DRM 1980 #2 - True Scale Miniatures

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