Japanese Nostalgic Car Toys and Diecast

cruiser72 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:13 am

Nice pics and hauls :tu:

toyotageek · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:25 am

Nice ones Kev! I miss shopping in Japan, so many cool toys to be had! :lol:

The Shakotan Boogie cars are neat - ganna have to track down some of them.

The Tomica Limited Vintage series are great cars. Yes the selection is rather eclectic from a westerners point of view, but they are sweet cars with nice details. The nice thing is they are ALL the same scale = 1/64 - so the Subie 360 is the same scale as the Hino fire engine, whereas regular Tomica range in scale from something like 1/55 to 1/150 depending on the vehicle.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your great haul of mini JNC! :tu:

kev · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:46 am

toyotageek wrote:

The Shakotan Boogie cars are neat - ganna have to track down some of them.

If you find some online, let me know, I wanna get the Hako now

Go Baby Go · **Posted:** Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:58 am

So i picked this up on fleabay... from France...

Go Baby Go · **Posted:** Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:04 am

And I bought more...................

And this................

cruiser72 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:45 pm

Yeah, the Konami models are very cool :tu:

kansaiwalker01 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:51 pm

cruiser72 wrote:

Yeah, the Konami models are very cool :tu:

If I saw that Tokyo Station Tomica store I would think that I have died and gone to Heaven.

I want that Kenmeri Tote Bag soo much

I wonder if their is a Tomica store in the Kansai region. That is where I always go in the summers. Hmmm....

toyotageek · **Posted:** Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:18 pm

kansaiwalker01 wrote:

cruiser72 wrote:

Yeah, the Konami models are very cool :tu:

If I saw that Tokyo Station Tomica store I would think that I have died and gone to Heaven.

I want that Kenmeri Tote Bag soo much

I wonder if their is a Tomica store in the Kansai region. That is where I always go in the summers. Hmmm....

Besides Tokyo Station, there is a store in Nagoya, an outlet store in Fukuoka, and.... a store in Osaka! :tu:

kansaiwalker01 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:09 am

toyotageek wrote:

kansaiwalker01 wrote:

cruiser72 wrote:

Yeah, the Konami models are very cool :tu:

If I saw that Tokyo Station Tomica store I would think that I have died and gone to Heaven.

I want that Kenmeri Tote Bag soo much

I wonder if their is a Tomica store in the Kansai region. That is where I always go in the summers. Hmmm....

Besides Tokyo Station, there is a store in Nagoya, an outlet store in Fukuoka, and.... a store in Osaka! :tu:

Osaka!

OMG, I will definitely check that out next month!

Thanks for the info!!! :mrgreen:

Kenmeri tote bag, here I come!

Go Baby Go · **Posted:** Thu Jul 01, 2010 5:01 am

I finally picked up Murray the other day.

Murray is the Murray Carter driven RX-7 that has one of the best colour schemes i have seen in a long time...............
FYI- Murray Carter is now 80-odd years old, and still heavily competes in State Racing in a Corvette- and does quite well.

toyotageek · **Posted:** Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:17 am

Go Baby Go wrote:

I finally picked up Murray the other day.

Murray is the Murray Carter driven RX-7 that has one of the best colour schemes i have seen in a long time...............
FYI- Murray Carter is now 80-odd years old, and still heavily competes in State Racing in a Corvette- and does quite well.

Looks nice! 1/18th scale?
I see the Biante name on the card. I assume it's a Biante special?
For those of us not living down under, what's the deal with Biante? I always used to think they were just a distributor - are they a manufacturer also? Or do they commission cars from other manufacturers? Like this Mazda, who's the actual maker?

Motiv8 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:17 am

As mentioned in my introduction thread I am also a keen collector of models and as the forum only allows you to post pics after two posts in threads I thought that this would be a good filler.

Cheers,
Sean

Motiv8 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:18 am

Probably not new to others but these have just hit the shelves in Australia. There seems to be alot of JNC's coming back in vogue with the collectors and younger generation.

Cheers,
Sean

Go Baby Go · **Posted:** Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:50 am

toyotageek wrote:

Go Baby Go wrote:

I finally picked up Murray the other day.

Murray is the Murray Carter driven RX-7 that has one of the best colour schemes i have seen in a long time...............
FYI- Murray Carter is now 80-odd years old, and still heavily competes in State Racing in a Corvette- and does quite well.

Looks nice! 1/18th scale?
I see the Biante name on the card. I assume it's a Biante special?
For those of us not living down under, what's the deal with Biante? I always used to think they were just a distributor - are they a manufacturer also? Or do they commission cars from other manufacturers? Like this Mazda, who's the actual maker?

Bit of both- they import/distrubte many brands but also make their own. Generally speaking the Biante made ones are aussie race cars.

toyotageek · **Posted:** Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:59 am

Go Baby Go wrote:

Bit of both- they import/distrubte many brands but also make their own. Generally speaking the Biante made ones are aussie race cars.

Thanks! That's what I kind of thought. :wink:

Motiv8 wrote:

Probably not new to others but these have just hit the shelves in Australia. There seems to be alot of JNC's coming back in vogue with the collectors and younger generation.

Cheers,
Sean

Welcome to JNC!
These are pretty cool! :tu:

I think someone posted about this new series by Maisto some time ago, but I still haven't seen them here in the States.

JunRaymond · **Posted:** Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:25 pm

Stock..

Lowered..

qdseeker · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:57 pm

I can finally join in! 1:12 scale by Strombecker.

gokiburix · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:39 pm

Today I picked up a JUST RELEASED (as of July 2010) 40th Anniversary Tomica SSS Bluebird! WOOHOO!!

ーゴキ

toyotageek · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:24 am

gokiburix wrote:

Today I picked up a JUST RELEASED (as of July 2010) 40th Anniversary Tomica SSS Bluebird! WOOHOO!!

ーゴキ

Actually this series first came out a few months ago. I got mine back in April. It's a six car revival set of the first six Tomica produced back in 1970. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Tomica. I only picked up the Toyota that are in the set, although I did just buy a complete set to send off to a friend in Germany.

BTW, this is Volume 1. Volume 2 was just released in Japan and is the same set of cars but in different colors. I think there is also a Vol 3 due in a few months.

More pictures on the Tomica Fan Club

ben · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:23 am

qdseeker - that Civic is awesome!!

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