Plastic fantastic: F-Toys, Aoshima and Japanese plastic miniatures

A bit like any diecast collector, I spend a lot of time trawling through eBay listings looking for bargains and oddities, restoration opportunities and our personal holy grail cars. It's on these eBay trawls I discovered all these cars, and while they're the scale we are used to on Lamley, they're perhaps not the material …

Lamley Daily: 2020 Hot Wheels Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) Super Treasure Hunt

Model: Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) Release: 2020 Super Treasure Hunt (Mix A) Where to get it: I just found one this week at Dollar General, so they are still out there. But ebay is an option. Why it is in the collection: Because it is the new R32 casting, and I don’t see a time …

The release of the Hot Wheels R30 Skyline is not surprising today, but still astonishing.

So how did this happen?  How did Hot Wheels just release an R30 Skyline? In worldwide markets for that matter, including the US?  How did a car that was never released in the US, and would probably be misidentified by many as a "sporty Sentra" before a Skyline, just get made by Hot Wheels?  And …

You want Hot Wheels to make your car? It better look as good – and original – as Roy De Guzman’s Hakosuka.

You have most likely already seen this Hot Wheels car.  If you are a reader here or at Japanese Nostalgic Car there is a good chance you have already read about it.  If you have read about it there is an equally good chance you have marveled at the awesomeness that is Hot Wheels doing …

Hot Wheels unveils two more upcoming Skylines – the R30 and R33 GT-R.

On a bit of a Skyline kick, eh Hot Wheels? Designer Jun Imai, in Japan currently for the Tokyo Toy Show, unveiled not one, but two more upcoming Hot Wheels Skylines: https://www.instagram.com/p/BU3PKMVlXcG/?taken-by=hotwheelsdreamteam https://www.instagram.com/p/BU3QEQSF4kg/?taken-by=hotwheelsdreamteam And these on the heels of the Hakosuka Wagon unveiling the day before.  Call this run on Skylines and Japanese cars what you …

The Hot Wheels R34 Skyline goes premium with its upcoming Entertainment Release

In my preview of the Hot Wheels Entertainment C Assortment, coming this summer, I mentioned the Fast & Furious R34 Skyline stood out enough that it merited its own feature. Well here it is. I could start by saying how good this model looks, but the R34 has always looked good.  It was designed by …