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, […]
Nowadays, every luxury car maker has one (or more) Four Wheel Drive SUV in their model range. Lamborghini, for example, has the Urus. But the Urus was far from their first attempt at going 4×4. That was the Cheetah, a full on off-roader (supposedly). Which was much, much weirder. As were some of the models […]
For decades, Stanley Kubrick’s acclaimed 1971 dystopian black comedy A Clockwork Orange was notorious, especially in the UK where it was filmed. In fact, for 27 years from 1973, it was almost impossible to see after Kubrick had it pulled from release after it was blamed for copycat violence. Only in 1999, when Kubrick died, […]
Contrary to what you might think, Galgo isn’t a giant monster who fought Godzilla in one of the lesser Godzilla movies from the early 1970s. It’s an Argentinian toy company which made diecast vehicles in the 1970s and 80s – including some character pieces which rivaled Spain’s oddest, starting with… The Dukes of Hazzard’s […]
Following on from our look at the naked cash grab very interesting and not at all redundant superhero transportation device that is the Corgi Supermobile, let’s move on to another of the Corgi Marvel products. One that is even more surreal and posits way more existential questions; The Incredible Hulk’s Mazda B1600 Pickup. […]
Avid readers of the hobbyDB blog will recall a few months ago when we looked at Superman’s Citroen CX as part of our dive into the Pilen model company’s very inauthentic character toys. Now let’s take a look at another vehicle belonging to the Man of Steel. It’s no less weird, but it’s a lot […]
If you like building models of 1980s European sports racing cars, you might have seen that Italeri recently re-released several older 1/24 scale Esci kits, including the BMW M1 Procar in nice new packaging; Hmmmm, it seems something is missing from that picture. What could it be…? Let’s take a look at the officially-released Italeri […]
History is littered with forgotten superheroes and those who… didn’t quite work out. Arm-Fall-Off-Boy. Matter-Eater Lad. Flatman. But among the most mysterious of all was… Artec Man! Little is known about this shadowy figure. He appears to have originated in Spain, where Pilen, the diecast company responsible for some of the world’s most inauthentic character […]
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