Minichamps 2010 Diecast Highlights
The Minichamps new 2010 announcements are now available to view and pre-order from our website!
Unsurprisingly, there is another whole host of new Valentino Rossi releases. I’m particularly excited by the two figure and two rider set of Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo which will recreate their battle from the last lap at Barcelona in 2009 (PO94699). There will also be ten new 1:8 Rossi helmets and eight new 1:12 Rossi figures, including ‘double figures’ where he had passengers dressed up as a chicken and an angel on victory laps!
Minichamps has also announced a very exciting 1:12 classic bike in the form of the Vincent Black Lightning ‘Rollie Free’ (P134650), complete with stretched out riding figure! Also announced are 1:12 figures for Giacomo Agostini (P700001F) and Lawrence of Arabia (P321350), as well as a mammoth 1:6 replica of Lawrence’s Brough Superior SS100 (PG135500)!
For 1:18 road cars, Minichamps has confirmed the 2010 Aston Martin DBS in grey (PG137920), the 2010 Bentley Mulsanne in black (PG139900), and the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport in graphite and grey (PG110830). There is also an interesting 1:18 subject in the original 1948 Land Rover, with the famous HUE 166 registration plates (PG168900). Universal Hobbies announced this about five years ago before then cancelling it about three years ago! The exciting new 1:12 road car subject is the McLaren F1 in orange (PH133131).
In 1:43 there will be seven new cars in the Top Gear Collection, and a new release in the Ayrton Senna Racing Car Collection, which will be #36 by my reckoning, the Toleman TG183B from his very first Formula One start in the 1984 Brazilian Grand Prix (AS036).
Finally, Minichamps has announced some new subjects in its 1:18 and 1:43 Formula One World Champion collections. In 1:18 there will be Nigel Mansell’s 1992 Williams FW14B (PG920005WC), and in 1:43 there will be Jackie Stewart’s 1973 Tyrrell 006 (P730005WC).
I wonder if any of these will be on show at Nuremberg!
