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| Subtle hint?; Mbx 2018 release of Ford Expedition--card art | |
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| b2young | Mar 24 2018, 09:44 AM Post #1 |
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Sad firefighter
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So, what do you make of this?![]() Card art doesn't exactly match what's in the blister....but the overall deco matches.... ![]() See, there's this "light bar" on the roof in the illustration.... ![]() but nothing on the model....and as far as I can tell (very small print on the tampo print of the 3 trees) no indication this is an "emergency vehicle livery"... Are we going to get this model as an obvious "emergency vehicle" in future releases? Or has the art department decided to forgo depicting what's in the blister, like back in the "olden days"? |
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| cody6268 | Mar 24 2018, 10:33 AM Post #2 |
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Or was there plan to do a fire chief's unit (perhaps licensed), plans fell through (perhaps due to a licensing agreement that didn't work out), and they ended up changing it last minute? I see nothing that would make this an emergency model, more like a unit used to advertise a four-wheeler lodge (which for some reason is all the politicians around here can get to come to this area as opposed to industry). |
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| pjedsel | Mar 24 2018, 12:38 PM Post #3 |
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Muscle Car
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Interesting - like the light bar in the picture but the tampo does nothing to make one think emergency vehicle but one can always hope down the road something might develop!
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| Stampede | Mar 24 2018, 01:54 PM Post #4 |
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Team Canada
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When a sneak peek was shown on the Matchbox World Instagram account of this model (along with the Civic and Plymouth), the caption mentioned "I spotted an error already but too late, already baked." I'm thinking this might have been what they were referring to. The photo I'm referring to: https://www.instagram.com/p/BeGKPPLHiJ0/?taken-by=matchboxworld |
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| daytime dave | Mar 24 2018, 04:06 PM Post #5 |
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Compact
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I'd sure like that vehicle to have a light bar. In red, it's a great fire chief or rescue squad. In blue or black and white it's a great police SUV. The light bar as pictured would be great. |
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| b2young | Mar 25 2018, 12:05 AM Post #6 |
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Sad firefighter
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Ah-Ha! That might explain it! I guess they print the short and long cards at the same time? Or at least, the orders for each were in already when they realized the error... Edited by b2young, Mar 25 2018, 12:07 AM.
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| Douglas | Mar 26 2018, 04:03 PM Post #7 |
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Since I do like this old expedition anyway, and the graphics aren't bad, it is ok with me, but of course it would have been better IMO to use the one with the lightbar, except it looks like the last time they used the lightbar version in the basic range was back in 2012, and now I guess it makes too many parts for these days, unless they modify the casting to incorporate it into the window insert, but they may have decided on doing some cost cutting again, although they have often used this casting for emergency models in the past. For an emergency/rescue type model they could have just printed ranger or something under the trees logo instead of whatever that is they wrote there. |
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| Dean-o-mite | Mar 26 2018, 04:07 PM Post #8 |
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The days of separate light bars on Matchbox are gone. Buy up the older emergency releases of this Expedition that came with separate light bars. If this model is ever amended back to having a light bar, it will be in the form of a sunroof cutout and lights molded in with the window piece. |
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| daytime dave | Mar 27 2018, 06:31 AM Post #9 |
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That's too bad, but good advice. |
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| Ripa | Mar 27 2018, 08:57 AM Post #10 |
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Regarless of any mismatches, nice to see this casting appearing again after a while! |
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