Casting of The Year Nomination

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Casting of The Year Nomination
Topic Started: Oct 22 2009, 01:04 PM (421 Views)
craftymore	Oct 22 2009, 01:04 PM Post #1
Nothing Runs Like A Deere Posts: 7,432 Group: Moderators Member #50 Joined: August 7, 2006 Preferred Brand M2 Machines Location Charleston, Illinois	Welcome to forum for nominating the 1st Annual Swifty's Garage Casting of The Year! Whew, that's a long title. Nominate any new casting for '09 that was released this year. A few running ground rules, the casting can be from any company, be of a classic or modern vehicle, and can be no larger than 1/55 in scale. Cars, trucks, semis, SUVs, Vans, and Buses can be included. I think in the interest of those who will be voting, which is any current member here on the Garage, a picture should be included with each nomination. If anyone has any other suggestions, thoughts, or ideas, let's hear them! Since this is the 1st year for this, I'm pretty much open to anything. Let the nominations, BEGIN!
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Snowowl	Oct 22 2009, 04:58 PM Post #2
Fullsize Posts: 675 Group: Members Member #1,566 Joined: January 24, 2009 Gender Male DLM or Cardboard Collector Both Theme Of Choice Default Favorite Arcade Game Asteroids Preferred Brand Greenlight Location New Hampshire	I can think of three right off the top of my head. Greenlight Javlelin Greenlight Dodge Ramcharger And of course the Greenlight Mercury Marauder
	Alright, so I open my cars up and take the tags off Beanie Babies then give the beanies to my daughters to play with. After all, they are only toys


JustDavid	Oct 22 2009, 11:23 PM Post #3
Convertible Posts: 2,119 Group: Members Member #1,471 Joined: July 21, 2008 DLM or Cardboard Collector Both Theme Of Choice Classic Gender Male Preferred Brand Tomica Location Mesa, Arizona	Mercury Maurader =
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Swifty	Oct 23 2009, 01:35 AM Post #4
Multiple Mustang Syndrome: '82 3.3 & '08 GT Posts: 22,576 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: July 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Theme Of Choice Default Gender Male Favorite Arcade Game 4 Wheel Madness Preferred Brand Yat Ming SG Blog Yes Location Lebanon, Pennsylvania USA	I will try to dig up some pics but for now, I want to nominate one car from each major manufacturer. GreenLight: Javelin was already nominated Hot Wheels: Chevrolet Chevelle wagon (only because the '67 Shelby that just came out is a 2010- if we open the poll to include castings that are supposed to be for next year than this takes the place of the Chevelle) Johnny Lightning: can we count the International Scout 4x4 as a revised tool? Kyosho: TVR Sagaris M2 Machines: '70 Torino Maisto: BMW X6 Matchbox: Dodge Monaco Minichamps: Bentley Brooklands MotorMax: Dodge Challenger Tomica: Nissan 370Z
	Thanks to cerberus128128 for the 1/18 Daytona!


craftymore	Oct 23 2009, 06:22 AM Post #5
Nothing Runs Like A Deere Posts: 7,432 Group: Moderators Member #50 Joined: August 7, 2006 Preferred Brand M2 Machines Location Charleston, Illinois	Swifty, since the major companies such as HWs and MB basically start their years off in October/November, I would count these early official 2010 releases from them and include the new Mustang and other new castings into consideration for nomination for 2009 COTY. As for the Scout, that's fine if you want to include that from JL. Likewise for any of the old RC castings that JL has revised for the 40th Anniversary line or from their normal hobby line.
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James	Oct 23 2009, 03:48 PM Post #6
Mr.Bowtie Posts: 5,499 Group: Members Member #355 Joined: October 14, 2007 DLM or Cardboard Collector Both Favorite Arcade Game Pacman Preferred Brand Johnny Lightning	we may have to have a run down, if you get several submissions from each manufacturer, might end up with 20 castings and the winner can win with 2 votes
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craftymore	Oct 23 2009, 10:39 PM Post #7
Nothing Runs Like A Deere Posts: 7,432 Group: Moderators Member #50 Joined: August 7, 2006 Preferred Brand M2 Machines Location Charleston, Illinois	I'm thinking of running a series of heats to narrow down the final voting James. I suspect by the time nominations are complete, we will have many to choose from. We'll cross that bridge once we get to it. 2009 has given us a great number of new models to choose from.
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Swifty	Oct 24 2009, 12:22 AM Post #8
Multiple Mustang Syndrome: '82 3.3 & '08 GT Posts: 22,576 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: July 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Theme Of Choice Default Gender Male Favorite Arcade Game 4 Wheel Madness Preferred Brand Yat Ming SG Blog Yes Location Lebanon, Pennsylvania USA	I would think we'd have to have a runoff of all the new GreenLights against one another, all the new Hot Wheels' against themselves, Matchboxes against Matchboxes, etc. The winner of those matchups ends up in the main poll. So let's say the Hot Wheels Javelin, Shelby Mustang, Chevelle wagon, and Fairlane all get nominated. They'd compete aginst each other until only one remains, then that would go up against the winners of the other polls.
	Thanks to cerberus128128 for the 1/18 Daytona!


James	Oct 24 2009, 04:28 AM Post #9
Mr.Bowtie Posts: 5,499 Group: Members Member #355 Joined: October 14, 2007 DLM or Cardboard Collector Both Favorite Arcade Game Pacman Preferred Brand Johnny Lightning	sounds good to me!!!!!
	Maybe I'm the President of the imaginary BWF Classification Committee, Maybe I am not!


Snowowl	Oct 24 2009, 05:14 AM Post #10
Fullsize Posts: 675 Group: Members Member #1,566 Joined: January 24, 2009 Gender Male DLM or Cardboard Collector Both Theme Of Choice Default Favorite Arcade Game Asteroids Preferred Brand Greenlight Location New Hampshire	As Rick Hunter use to say on TV. "Works for me."
	Alright, so I open my cars up and take the tags off Beanie Babies then give the beanies to my daughters to play with. After all, they are only toys


Swifty	Oct 24 2009, 02:19 PM Post #11
Multiple Mustang Syndrome: '82 3.3 & '08 GT Posts: 22,576 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: July 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Theme Of Choice Default Gender Male Favorite Arcade Game 4 Wheel Madness Preferred Brand Yat Ming SG Blog Yes Location Lebanon, Pennsylvania USA	Snowowl Oct 24 2009, 05:14 AM As Rick Hunter use to say on TV. "Works for me." Loved that show!
	Thanks to cerberus128128 for the 1/18 Daytona!


ivantt	Oct 25 2009, 11:55 AM Post #12
New casting?? Quick! Take it apart! Posts: 2,188 Group: Members Member #575 Joined: January 6, 2008	All the rules suggested sound good and make sense. Good job, Crafty, of administrating this forum. The nominations may not be as many as you think, as there are only so many from each company that will be favored, and many people would nominate the same ones. The cars I would nominate have already been mentioned, some several times, so now I don't have to nominate any. I can just wait for the voting!! One question---like the Academy Awards fiascos, does a 2010 car that is out now (Crafty said it could qualify for this year 2009) ALSO qualify for 2010 since it IS OFFICIALY a 2010 car and will be issued throughout next year? So can it be in two years voting or just one? If just one, Crafty will have to keep track of which 2010 cars actually were issued in late 2009. Edited by ivantt, Oct 25 2009, 12:04 PM.
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Swifty	Oct 25 2009, 03:04 PM Post #13
Multiple Mustang Syndrome: '82 3.3 & '08 GT Posts: 22,576 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: July 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Theme Of Choice Default Gender Male Favorite Arcade Game 4 Wheel Madness Preferred Brand Yat Ming SG Blog Yes Location Lebanon, Pennsylvania USA	How about we make the cutoff date 11/30, therefore any car issued from 12/1 of the preceding year is elligible along with any model for the current (or next!) year that makes it to widespread production by November 30th. Having one person nominate a car when no one else has seen it doesn't help the car's status in the polls. For example- Matchbox has just released a Cadillac ambulance- but the distribution is very spotty because most Walmarts just restocked multiple cases of the previous batch (K) whereas the Caddy (and the other 4 new castings) are all in L. It isn't widespread enough to be considered for this year unless, miracle of miracles, more people start reporting they found them. With a month to go that will very likely happen, but as of right now it's out. Likewise, and this has happened to Matchbox the last three years (but thankfully will not happen this year!), any current year model that does not appear until after the cutoff goes on the following year's poll.
	Thanks to cerberus128128 for the 1/18 Daytona!


craftymore	Oct 25 2009, 06:25 PM Post #14
Nothing Runs Like A Deere Posts: 7,432 Group: Moderators Member #50 Joined: August 7, 2006 Preferred Brand M2 Machines Location Charleston, Illinois	I agree with the points made by Swifty on the parameters of the cutoff dates. Sounds fair and if the car isn't in for this year, you can always nominate it for next year. No biggie.
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Chris W	Oct 29 2009, 10:15 AM Post #15
Compact Posts: 110 Group: Members Member #97 Joined: December 5, 2006	My nomination is the Mercedes SLR McLaren from Matchbox:



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