Solido – New Announcements for 2022

A day with a details of new announcements from one of our favourite manufacturers is always a good day. And so it stands that today, with details of Solido’s 2022 schedule sat in our Inbox, is a good day. For 2022 Solido bring not only a great range of 1:18s but also some new 1;24… Read more

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Rewind – LobsterDiecast’s Review Of The Year

And so to mid December, and our traditional look back at the year about to depart and nervous glance forward at the year stretching out in front of us. More on that later, but first, a 2021 retrospective. If we thought 2020 was bad, and by heck it was, then 2021 was worse. The combined… Read more

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Show Reports – Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show

Second week of November. There’s only really one thing on the mind of much of the UKs classic car community. The Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show With Discovery+, to give it its full, if rather wordy, title held at the NEC in Birmingham is traditionally the season finale for the UK’s classic car community. And… Read more

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Show Reports – Festival Of The Unexceptional

Name some of the things you’re guaranteed to find at most classic car shows? Rows upon rows of MGBs, Triumph TRs and Jaguars? A hostile looking owners club, sat in a circle and often under a gazebo all but telling you that you are not one of them and that you should keep walking? Cars… Read more

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Soon : Exceptionally Unexceptional

There’s light on the horizon. It seems (crosses everything, touches a lucky, wooden cat) that we might actually be able to go out and do ‘stuff’ again. And by ‘stuff’, I mean car shows. One of the shows we’ve enjoyed most in the last few years is Hagerty’s Festival of The Unexceptional. And as we’ve… Read more

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Places : Caffeine & Machine

Some places, through good social media, a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’, having the right sort of petrol infused atmosphere or just being a really superb place to go, transcend many other automotive themed destination and become one of those places you just have to visit. A bit like Circuit Reims Gueux, Caffeine and Machine… Read more

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Solido – New Announcements for 2021

Its often the case that by the time a manufacturer announces their new release plans for the year ahead, we’ve a reasonable idea of what to expect. Sometimes though, there’s a couple of surprises lurking within, things that hadn’t been on our radar and that we weren’t expecting at all. And so it proves to… Read more

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Norev – New Announcements for 2021

Normally, at this time of the year we’d have news from the Nuremberg Toy Fair, the place where manufacturers typically set out their ranges for the coming year. This year though, thats not happening. Well, not in January anyway. But it doesn’t mean that there aren’t new announcements, because there are. And on the back… Read more

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Corgi Vanguards 2021 New Announcements

So you like Ford models in 1:43, yes? Good, there’s a lot of them here… Actually, as much as Corgi’s new Vanguards product release details for 2021 is very, very heavy on classic Fords, there are some really nice models here. We would, obviously, have liked a bit more in the way of new castings… Read more

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Fast Forward – 2021 – Hopes and Dreams….

Last week, we wrote our annual ‘Rewind‘ blog and it was, I will readily admit, somewhat downbeat. But forgive us for that. 2020 has hardly been a vintage year with much to celebrate and we were, at the time of writing staring down the barrel of the fabled No Deal Brexit, which from where we… Read more

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Rewind – LobsterDiecast’s Review Of The Year

Every year, at about this point, we cast a look back over our shoulder and give the year about to depart a quick review before looking forward to the myriad possibilities which lay before us in the year to come. That’s a bit harder this year though, but nonetheless we’ll still do it but lets… Read more

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The Late Brake Show – A Life Of Cars

A few weeks back we were contacted by friend of LobsterDiecast, journalist, YouTuber and TV presenter, Jonny Smith. You see he’s got a new YouTube show – The Late Brake Show – which, amongst much else, features interviews with an assortment of the great and good from the motoring world. For Episode Two, Jonny was… Read more

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