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05 May 2025, 6:00 pm

Now you come to mention it, I dimly remember knowing about those. Never had one of my own though. It was nearly all Matchbox. Corgi cars were bigger weren't they?

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05 May 2025, 6:02 pm

I think they were a similar size to Dinky Toys, but I always felt they had a bit more class and quality.

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05 May 2025, 6:03 pm

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05 May 2025, 6:19 pm

DeepHour wrote:

I think they were a similar size to Dinky Toys, but I always felt they had a bit more class and quality.

That might explain why I was mostly into Matchbox. They'd have fitted in with my 00 gauge railway better. Don't remember how perfectly the scales matched though.

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06 May 2025, 1:29 am

Quite amusing to me that i thought I didn’t have a special interest

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06 May 2025, 1:37 am

ToughDiamond wrote:

Well, what little boy doesn't love cars? It was just that Matchbox series and Dinky toys were the only ones I knew about.

Makes sense. I know my dad has described Hot Wheels hitting the market a few years after he was 'too old' for toy cars.

OO scale is roughly 1:76, Matchbox cars tend to be bigger than 1:64 (~1:60). Hot Wheels cars are about 1:64 when it's an American car and closer to 1:60 when it's an 'import' (Euro or Japanese).

IIRC, Dinky models were typically 1:43, unless they had a smaller scale line I'm unfamiliar with.

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Never come across Corgi Toys?

I have a few Corgis from around when Mattel bought them. There's a Jaguar prototype that I wheel swapped; later releases were sold as Hot Wheels, but this one has the correct livery. I swapped the wheels because Corgi wheels don't look very good.

All the Corgis I have are roughly 1:60.

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06 May 2025, 5:25 am

Sudden rainy season coldness and rainy season raining... And May isn't over yet.

Thus we here get too hot past midnight, mornings and noons, and too cold late noon to nights.

My thermoregulation is screwed. Well, it already was to begin with. It's just twice screwed than before.

A price to pay against whatever previous crap, tho this screw up might as well pass for signs of aging.

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06 May 2025, 8:31 am

Viewing a flat a mile up the road on thursday. Therapy session later the same day.

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06 May 2025, 8:32 am

I hope it all goes well for you with the flat viewing, Rossall.

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06 May 2025, 8:51 am

Rossall wrote:

Viewing a flat a mile up the road on thursday. Therapy session later the same day.

Oh wow what a twist if events

You're gonna be busy mate
Fingers crossed for you

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06 May 2025, 9:05 am

My AP exam(s!! !) coming up :[

I have four yikes! Two this week (Wednesday and Thursday) and two for the next (Thursday and Friday)... quite nervous but everything always turns out fine and even if I don't succeed then atleast I tried :3

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06 May 2025, 9:27 am

Good luck

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06 May 2025, 9:41 am

It's a beautiful day here today

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06 May 2025, 9:53 am

Cloudy here.

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06 May 2025, 9:56 am

Yeah I suppose it is here a bit now

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