QUOTE(netmatrix2 @ Sep 5 2012, 10:58 AM)
The colors & tampo also not attractive. The other skyline in single box silver color one is not nice. The door cannot open. The last TL Sil80 also not nice as the scale is off and the cast is like china copy one. The only last legit TL i see now is the datsun SSS. But at 24 bucks..... sigh........ Not only that my favourite Maisto stuff also cost damn a lot already. And does not seem worth it anymore. Lucky i have scaled down my collection habits a lot. do a lot of calculation, the price of buying, resale and value holding does not justify.
Added on September 5, 2012, 11:27 amWell if they maintain that they would have these feature as what we would expect for paying premium price, i would agree. But nowdays...... things just go so wrong. Now its in HW premium category, metal base with rubber wheels. The only 1 difference now is the base of TL is painted, while Hw is not painted. I do like TL collector friendly packaging. This one trumps all. But c'mon! Paying few bucks more for no special functions. HW does not have opening doors. But they have opening bonnet and hatch in some models. Some wired ones have movable parts. It is also the same with MBX. But MBX only have movable parts in their transport models, like vans, trucks and such. With Maisto u pay for parts licensing. The wheels are all reflected as real life items we could buy. Some of their premium range have opening bonnets as well. With Siku, they make only europe only car models. And u pay more for size. So pay RM25 for TL or pay RM20 for HW? So 5 more bucks cannot make opening door? TL range KPGC models is the one that is so apparent it got this change. If the cast already had opening doors, why not make it same with the new 2 models? I also noticed the new silver KPGC is slightly bigger in size. Or maybe the lighter shade made it bigger? I dunno la. I think Tomica is restructuring to save money. They could have made all their normal lines non opening doors and such. And only TL have opening doors. But in Japan they have even cheaper normal tomica blister pack lines and not like the box lines.
U know because of this reduced function, that makes MBX action 1:64 big scale RM30 ones value for money. U get moving things even if it is plastic.
If u say that skyline 2000GT-R set, confirm is old model/casting. The old casting last time design also no door can be opened... that was design > 10 years.
If u saying the price... TL have been > 10 years... from begin until now it still 700 yen, it just our currency exchange rate become worse only.
If you look for more moveable parts die-cast, you may have to go for 1/18 better.
For myself, moveable parts or not isn't important, I prefer pay more for quality 1/64 only.
Not the error, missing paint, missing detail die-cast.
I never disappoint when i buy for local store or purchase from oversea market.