40th Anniversary TOMICA Vol.1 Toyota 2000GT
I bought this for a couple of reasons; 1. It's a legendary car from Toyota (though I don't particularly like Toyota), and 2. I never had a Tomica Anniversary car.
Ooohhh, looks like they included something extra! It's a display base, with a set of stickers which is supposed to look like gold-plated name plates (Is that what they're called? Name plates?). You can choose from the Japanese or English name plates.
All you have to do is stick either one of the stickers on the display base, and just put the car in the recessed portion of the display base. No screws or snap-on parts whatsoever. The car sits snuggly on the base. Looks elegant even though it's just a simple display base. I chose to put the Japanese sticker, 'cos I think it better reflects the origin of the car.
As always, excellent build quality and great level of details for this kind of price and scale, as expected of Tomica.
A shot of the back, with the door opened. Red interior somehow blends well with the rest of the car.
Now this is interesting. The base of the car is made of metal (real metal, and not cheap plastic sprayed with chrome paint), which is quite rare in Tomicas these days. Even my Tomica Limited NSX has a plastic base. Maybe it's because of the anniversary edition? I do hope that Tomica could make the metal base a standard for all of their future casts, and not just the anniversary editions.
Great catch, did you get the other cars as well? =)
ReplyDeleteNaw, I only found this one.. the others are just regular tomicas... :(
ReplyDelete...I was actually hoping Hot Wheels would introduce more classic Japanese cars like this
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haha, i was hoping for the opposite. i wish Tomica could make more american muscles. :P
ReplyDeleteGreat model, with well constructed name plates that give basic information about the product.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment. :)
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