1st March 2010

Spark Confirms Its 2010 Announcements

Today Spark confirmed their new 2010 announcements, all 310 of them! You can click here to see a PDF listing of them all. They can be pre-ordered over the phone now on our Orderline 0844 887 8888, and by the end of the week they will be available to pre-order off of our website as well.

There’s some really exciting subjects that have been announced. In 1:18, there are several new Le Mans winners, including the Ford GT40s from 1968 and 1969, and the three Audi R8 LMS cars from the 2009 Nurburgring 24 Hours.

For me though, the most exciting new 1:18 announcement was Spark’s first 1:18 Formula One car, Jim Clark’s 1963 F1 Championship winning Lotus 25.

In 1:43 there were a good 50 new Formula One replicas announced, covering the 1950s up to the 1990s. These include such gems as Peter Gethin’s 1971 Italian Grand Prix winning BRM P160, Patrick Depailler’s 1978 Monaco Grand Prix winning Tyrrell 008, Alain Prost’s 1983 French Grand Prix winning Renault RE40, and Jean Alesi’s 1990 Tyrrell 019.

Spark has also decided that a 1:43 Le Mans Winners Collection is not enough, so it has started a Daytona Winners Collection as well!

Allied to this are CanAm cars, all of the 2009 Audi DTM cars, another vast array of cars that have competed at Le Mans over the years, and several interesting road car subjects as well.

If you can’t find something you like, you can’t have been looking properly!

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1st March 2010

Diecast Legends Podcast

Welcome to this week’s Diecast Legends Podcast, which brings you the latest releases in the world of diecast models. This week we have new releases from Minichamps and Universal Hobbies. Minichamps has released Jorge Lorenzo’s first Moto GP bike, and Universal Hobbies has released two new 1:16 tractors.

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The diecast models featured on this weeks podcast are;

1/12 Yamaha YZR-M1 2008 #48 J. Lorenzo - Minichamps
1/12 Maserati Birdcage 1960 #98 C. Shelby - Minichamps
1/43 Toro Rosso STR4 2009 #11 S. Bourdais - Minichamps
1/43 Williams FW31 2009 #17 K. Nakajima - Minichamps
1/43 Porsche 3456 Le Mans 1951 #46 - Minichamps
1/43 McLaren F1 silver - Minichamps
1/16 Massey Harris Pony 820 tractor - Universal Hobbies
1/16 Champion Elan tractor - Universal Hobbies

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