Sunday, May 30, 2010

2010 - Race World : Volcano Team

In 2010 mainline basic cars series, there is a sub-series which is called the RACE WORLD series. There are 12 teams in the Race World series and i've done a review on one of the team called EARTH. Now completed another team called VOLCANO.

The VOLCANO theme team has fiery flames tempo /deco on it which represent the heat of volcano. Even the background on the carded shows volcanic lava flowing. Nothing special for this team except for the flame theme deco, not that its haven't been done before.



The Volcano team comprises 4 casting with fiery flame deco are ..

HOT BIRD
(Blue body with flame deco, red window and 5sp red wheels)


PHAMTOM RACER
(Purple body with flame deco, orange window and oh5 redline wheels)


TWIN MILL
(Black sparkling body with flame deco, red window and pr5 redline wheels)


64' LINCOLN CONTINENTAL
( Red body with yellow flame deco, clear window and oh5 wheels)



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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Tomica Hero Rescue Force

Tomica Hero Rescue Force is the name of a Japan Sentai like TV show that showcase a Special Task Force that do Disaster Rescuing like Volcano eruption, earthquake, fire and many more. Rescue force have an arsenal of special rescue vehicle (something like ThunderBird concept) to help with the rescuing.

And what would a TV show be without merchandise toys to compliment them with. Tomica releases all the vehicle use in the TV show in 1/64 scale die-cast. Each of the vehicle comes with a card that can be used in bigger machine for special functions. These little 1/64 scale can also be deploy in the larger type of vehicle sold separately.

There are about 30 difference type if model to choose from raging from Core Striker to Rescue savers. As with all tomica product, model have special function on them like openable doors, hood and many more.

Retail price was between 19.90-29.90 each, now price drop to 70% off, so as usual buy up some of them for collection as well as to compliment the larger rescue machine.

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