Excellent news for anyone based in Europe or traveling there this summer. ICONS, an exciting new collectibles extravaganza is launching in Spain this August. And they’ve just dropped their event trailer. Check it out below! Happening in Alicante on August 15-16, ICONS is a celebration of all forms of collectible culture. Featuring trading […]
The Dinky Action Kits series were a fascinating attempt by Dinky to make extra revenue in the early 1970s, by selling a number of their models in kit form. These were sold unassembled and unpainted. However, they included one or two glass vials of Humbrol enamel paint, notorious for rapidly drying out and becoming unusable. […]
Baskingshark
As frequent readers will recall, we’ve already looked twice at how Spain’s 1970s-80s diecast toymakers liked to play fast and loose with (a) licensing laws and (b) authenticity when it came to cashing in on the era’s superheroes, movies and TV shows by producing tie-in model cars. But just when you thought the Back to […]
Imagine, if you will, a summer Sunday in the English countryside; birds are singing and the sun is shining. You are walking down a country lane, on one side of which is a lovely orchard, bursting with apple trees. On the other is a rolling meadow, where you plan to enjoy a delicious picnic. Every […]
If you were to ask the average collector what the first diecast car to tie into a TV or movie series was and who made it, 9 times out of 10 they’ll you it’s the Corgi Toys James Bond Aston-Martin DB5. But they’d be wrong. Not only was the DB5 not the first character car, […]
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