Red Line Club? Leo Club India?

It is a well known fact for years that Mattel has only been focusing US and Canada by having an exclusive Club.

In mid 1990s, Mattel partnered up with Leo Toys India to start manufacturing in India. Rumors out there say Leo was not able to produce and meet the standards that was expected by Mattel.

You know what? We Indian collectors atleast had Leo as an indigenous makers of car models that we could collect. But not any more.

Will we see a comeback of Leo Mattel? Atleast for India? I sure do hope so!

A Special that didn't make it!

Here's a Hot Wheels RLC Corvette that didn't make it stellar. The contemporary '14 Corvette Stringray in metallic blue.

It has almost everything going for itself, but the collector community managed to collectively reject it because it doesn't have a metallic roof.

With just 3000 numbers produced, this is a model that captures all of the features of it's 1:1 counter-part excluding the wheel arches, which has been hotwheelified.

Though it is a stand alone release, I do feel this is a piece that is worthy to be collected just for it's beautiful metallic blue paint and that constrasting red rims.

Metallic top or not, the amount of details that has been tampoed sure makes this a model that is a must-have for collectors who are after detailing.

Feel free to post your comments below if you disagree with me. I would love to discuss this model further in depth.

PS: I also need some suggestions about what kind of backrground theme that I could adopt for this blog. Do suggest!