Archive for May 2007

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Up Close with the Jada Sandrail

Poster JohnRino over on JOESDIECASTSHACK.COM shares these gorgeous photos of the Jada Sandrail that he managed to finally find at the Dearborn National Convention during the in-room trading. His photographs do a great job of showing off the detail of this unique casting. Click on the thumbnails below to see the full versions. Thanks for [...]

4th Issue EVO Sale This SUNDAY!

Its ON!! The sale of the 4th Issue Dave Chang EVO has been set for this Sunday, May 6th at 10am PST only at KTEKDIECAST.COM!! The graphics for this release were done by Kewo Designs, and boy do they look sharp. Once again this run will be limited to 984 pieces (of each design) with [...]

Impact of Market Trends on the Diecast

As posted on DIECASTMAX.COM:
“It’s undeniable that the diecast car market is trending away from where it has been since around 2000 when new diecast companies like Maisto, MotorMax, Welly, and others couldn’t seem to release enough new models in a zillion colors with an unlimited production. Many serious collectors bemoaned this overabundance of mediocre releases [...]

May 2007 Ambassador Report

Those who are familiar with Airland’s Ironbox Newswire on the Hot Wheels side of the house will feel right at home with the news updates provided by Jim Gallegos over on the Matchbox Community Collectors Hall (WWW.MBOXCOMMUNITY.COM) through his Ambassador Report. Here is a subset of the tremendous number of highlights that Jim brought Matchbox [...]

New Additions to the Jada Line-Up

Jada Toys recently announced the addition of a few cars across several of their populaR product lines. First, the Big Time Muscle line gets a new 1:24th scale ‘69 Camaro which will be available in black with orange stripes, blue with white stripes, orange with black stripes, red with white stripes and red with race [...]

4th Issue Dave Chang EVO Revealed

Thanks to Connie Basham, the collector world has the first glimpses of the new 4th Issue Dave Chang EVO SS Concept Drag Bus! This shot was taken at the Dearborn National Convention and needless to say, the 4th issue is nothing less than spectacular. The official sale date has yet to be announced, but when [...]

Ironbox Newswire from the Nationals

Airland brings collectors another information packed edition of the newswire in the form of a National Convention edition! Here’s what he had to say:
“Rumors that Basic Wheels will return are now confirmed… Ya had to see this coming. Chances are that basic wheels will be used in the 40th Anniversary set and even the Since [...]