Today Norev announced some new 1:43 replicas, all of which can be seen by clicking here.
Highlights are Yvan Muller’s 2010 WTCC Chevrolet Cruze (NV0065), and the 1971 Triumph Stag Mk.I in blue (NV350094).
Sorry for the short entry today, but it’s been pretty busy here at GPL HQ!
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Today (or rather last thing on Friday, but it was too late for the diary entry!) Minichamps announced a new 1:43 road car replica, and it is going to be one of their most popular road car models ever!
It is of the awesome 2010 Ford Focus RS500 in matt black (P088104), and it has already generated a huge amount of interest amongst collectors.
Only 500 of the real car will be manufactured, all of them in matt black, and only 101 will make it to the UK.
Of course, we expect more examples of Minichamps’ replica to make it to these shores but, judging by the number of pre-orders we have taken already, this is not one that you are going to want to risk still being available after it has been released!
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Today Minichamps announced the first part of its 2010 Formula One race car line-up.
In 1:18 there will be the McLaren MP4/25s of Jenson Button (DC21001) and Lewis Hamilton (DC21002), the Mercedes MGP W01s of Michael Schumacher (DC21003) and Nico Rosberg (DC21004), and the Red Bull RB6s of Sebastian Vettel (DC21005) and Mark Webber (DC21006).
In 1:43 we will see the McLaren MP4/25s of Jenson Button (DC210401) and Lewis Hamilton (DC210402), the Mercedes MGP W01s of Michael Schumacher (DC210403) and Nico Rosberg (DC210404), the Red Bull RB6s of Sebastian Vettel (DC210405) and Mark Webber (DC210406), the Renault RE30s of Robert Kubica (DC210411) and Vitaly Petrov (DC210412), the Force India VJM03s of Adrian Sutil (DC210414) and Vitantonio Liuzzi (DC210415), and the Toro Rosso STR5s of Sebastien Buemi (DC210416) and Jaime Alguersuari (DC210417).
A couple of 1:43 specials have already been announced too, in the form of Jenson Button’s winning McLaren from Australia (DC210401A), and Nico Rosberg’s third place Mercedes from Malaysia (DC210404M). These respectively commemorate Button’s first win for McLaren and the first Mercedes podium since its comeback as a Formula One team.
Minichamps did stress however that this was not its complete list of the 2010 F1 grid, so we hope that the ‘missing’ teams will be added before long.
Norev also announced a new 1:43 replica, in the form of Kimi Raikkonen’s first ever world championship rally in a WRC car; his Citroen C4 WRC from the 2010 Rally of Sweden (NV155432). The retail price is £35.99, but we have seen it offered elsewhere with quite a substantial premium at £39.99, where yet to be released 1:43 IXO rally cars were also being pre-sold for £29.99 instead of the RRP of £27.99. Remember, we never charge more than the retail price!
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We didn’t receive a new delivery today, but we did receive the new Minichamps release schedule instead! You can click here to see it in its entirety.
For the first week of it (week beginning 3rd May), we will see Fernando Alonso’s 1:43 2009 Renault R29 (DC29407).
The week after that, we will receive Romain Grosjean’s 1:43 2009 Renault R29 (DC29408G), and the 1:43 runner-up #20 Porsche RS Spyder from the 2008 Sebring 12 Hours (P086820).
In the third week of the schedule we are slated to get Nelson Piquet Jnr’s 1:43 2009 Renault R29 (DC29408), and Frank Biela’s 1:43 1991 DTM Audi V8 (P911445).
For the penultimate week of the schedule we will see Minichamps’ next 1:12 classic bike, the Honda CB 750 in red (P161002), and the 1:18 Ford Escort ITC of Stewart and Craft from the RAC TT at Silverstone in 1970 (PG708117).
Finally, in the last week of the schedule for the week beginning 1st June, we will receive Stuck’s 1:18 Audi 200 Quattro from Cleveland in 1988 (PG881344).
There was also a new announcement today, from Mattel, which was the Ferrari 599 GTO. Red is the only colour confirmed so far, in 1:18 (HW6925) and 1:43 (HW6267).
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Today it was Norev’s turn to send us a new delivery!
In 1:18 the new releases were the Citroen DS23 Pallas in blue (NV181576) and the Renault Laguna coupe in grey (NV185220).
In 1:43 we received the #116 Volkswagen Scirocco GT24 from the 2009 Nurburgring 24 Hours (NV840195), and the Dodge Viper SRT10 in green (NV950028).
Let’s see if we can get a delivery from a third different diecast manufacturer tomorrow!
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Welcome to this week’s Diecast Legends Podcast, which brings you the latest releases in the world of diecast models. This week we have a new signed replica, in the form of Jorege Lorenzo’s 2008 Yamaha, and other new releases from Minichamps.
Keep the comments rolling in. You’ll need quicktime installed to view the video on this post.
You can also view this podcast on youtube by clicking here
The diecast models featured on this weeks podcast are;
Signed Minichamps 1/12 Lorenzo 2008 Yamaha YZR-M1
Minichamps 1/18 #8 2009 Peugeot 908 Le Mans
Minichamps 1/18 VW 1300
Minichamps 1/43 #77 2009 Audi R8 LMS Nurburgring
Minichamps 1/43 BMW 850i
Minichamps 1/43 VW 1200
Minichamps 1/43 Lancia Fulvia 1600 HF
Minichamps 1/43 Ford Taunus estate ‘ADAC’
Minichamps 1/43 VW 1600 Variant ‘Ulm fire’
Minichamps 1/43 BMW 2000 CS
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Today we received the week’s new Minichamps delivery, although it is safe to say it’s one of their ‘tamer’ ones! All the new releases were in 1:43.
Highlights were one of our more popular emergency vehicles, the Stuttgart fire service Porsche Cayenne (P066294), along with the Ford Focus in yellow (P084002), and the Porsche 911 4S in white (P065322).
We also heard that there is going to be a ‘week off’ between the end of the current Minichamps release schedule and the start of the next one, so we are not expecting any new subjects from Aachen in the week beginning 26th April. We hope to hear what will be on the next Minichamps release schedule soon.
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To start off the week Minichamps has confirmed the release dates for its next two 1:12 Valentino Rossi Yamaha replicas.
The first of these is the already pre-sold out Catalunya Yamaha from 2008 with the Italian football team livery (DCL2008), which we are due to receive the week beginning 28th June. That’s still quite a long way away considering that we’re not able to sell any more!
The second release will be Rossi’s 2009 Yamaha YZR-M1, which took him to his ninth world championship and his seventh in the top class (PO93046). This one is due to be released the week beginning 2nd August.
A good summer for the Rossi collectors amongst you then!
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Today we have announced that Lorenzo will be signing his 2009 Yamaha YZR-M1 for us.
You can pre order for £99.99.
The new diecast monthly is back from the printers and is on its way out via our friendly postal workers.
If you would like a sneak preview you can view the online version here
New Spark has arrived
Don’t forget to keep an eye on twitter for up to the minute news. Have a good day.
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So Leigh has made good use of the bank holiday and has taken the rest of this week off.
Once again the Ecommerce team will step in and share the news for the short week.As you can imagine being the first day back after 4 days downtime there is a lot to catch up on.
Signed Lorenzo is now in stock including the 1:1 scale space helmet.
We have had a delivery from Spark late in the day but news about that tomorrow.
Vidcast is now up so make sure you take a look.
Has anyone noticed the new look homepage on www.diecastlegends.com? All comments welcome. You can see we have moved the model of the day to the top of the page now. We also have more product on display and it also it has its very own carousel displaying what is new.
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