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| Glass King - 2017 New Model | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 23 2017, 04:56 PM (306 Views) | |
| Douglas | Sep 23 2017, 04:56 PM Post #1 |
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Since Blair (b2young) was so kind to announce one of the recent batches showing up at Dollar Tree here in the US, I stopped by the one near home today, and found a few things I hadn't yet seen this year.![]() One of those is the new Glass King, which I don't recall anyone posting before, so thought I'd share a few photos.... ![]() ![]() The frame work to mimic holding the glass in place is a lot thicker plastic than what I would have liked to see, to appear more realistic, but I understand how toy companies have to concern themselves with child safety and issues like that, and kind of over thicken parts on models. It is a separate piece as well, so it pulls right off, just having two pegs in it. ![]() ![]() The back piece actually looks like a cage from the profile, so I was thinking why not do a zoo truck or something in the future, though I realize that caged animals aren't all that politically correct these days either. Another interesting thing I found, interesting to me anyway, is the Travel Tracker color of the plastic rear bed area, It almost appears they found a way to create a somewhat metallic look to the gold coloring, if this is true, and not just my eyes playing tricks on me, then I wonder if they will do the same to make gray plastic look more silver, which would be good for base plates and other parts of a model. ![]() |
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| Pegers | Sep 23 2017, 05:28 PM Post #2 |
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the red ram looks good. |
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| Douglas | Sep 23 2017, 05:36 PM Post #3 |
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Ahh Yes, finding that one gave me the biggest smile out of all of them. |
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| b2young | Sep 24 2017, 04:53 PM Post #4 |
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Glad to have encouraged you to take a look! I checked a couple other DTs today and didn't see anything new at them....so really lucky my neighborhood store (near the Walmart) had restocked last week. I didn't know the Glass King's rack comes off like that....I guess that's how the driver gets the glass out....
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| pjedsel | Sep 24 2017, 09:41 PM Post #5 |
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I am in Bismarck for a couple of days (can you say doctor appointments). There are three DT stores I can check out while my wife is looking for new drapes and window treatments for the house as we just got new windows. Would be kind of neat if I could find that glass truck.
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| Ripa | Sep 25 2017, 12:11 AM Post #6 |
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The Glass Kings is quite cool. I took a look at it many times while in Greece where the new batches were already out, but decided not to pick it up since I don't collect trucks and had like 15lbs of stuff bought already.. picked up the red Ram though. |
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| Pegers | Sep 25 2017, 02:09 AM Post #7 |
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the glass kings look much better without the plastic top. |
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| MrFutura | Sep 25 2017, 11:03 AM Post #8 |
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Whether you like the casting or not, I enjoy seeing how MB designers work their magic interlocking the different pieces. It makes me want to get a 3-D printer and see if I could do it. |
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| MrFutura | Sep 25 2017, 11:04 AM Post #9 |
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Whether you like the casting or not, I enjoy seeing how MB designers work their magic interlocking the different pieces. It makes me want to get a 3-D printer and see if I could do it. |
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| webestang64 | Sep 25 2017, 12:53 PM Post #10 |
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I hope to find the Glass King....such a neat casting! This is why I love Matchbox's so much! THX for the photos! |
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| b2young | Sep 25 2017, 02:19 PM Post #11 |
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Who'd a thunk anyone would come up with a model of a sheet glass delivery truck? The minds of those Matchbox designers are off in the weeds, in a really GOOD way IMHO! |
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| Douglas | Sep 25 2017, 04:50 PM Post #12 |
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I always admire the designers abilities as well, looking at this one it appears it might be just 4 pieces, excluding the wheel assemblies, so it's pretty clever how they might come up with the plan to do just like you say, work their magic interlocking the different pieces. |
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