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Wednesday, 10 June 2020

Hot Wheels Ghost Rider

Hi Woodsy,

I see you mentioned a Ghost Rider motorcycle recently, well the only Ghost Rider item I have is this recent Hot Wheels Replica Entertainment Dodge Charger.

It is a 2020 model, and from the same batch as the Thundercats half-track.

It is matt black, has silver window trim and door handles, with 'ghostly' blue flames in translucent light blue plastic around the engine and along the sides, and bizarre blue tyres.

Being from one of the Hot Wheels premium lines it has both a metal body, and a metal baseplate - the name Ghost Rider Charger is cast into the baseplate, and has Real Rider wheels.

It is, of course, considerably more expensive than a regular Hot Wheels toy, and is clearly aimed at adult collectors.

Paul Adams, New Zealand

JOHNNY LIGHTNING BATMOBILE

Hello Woodsy

Further to MJ Southcoast base's comment on the LONDON LAYOUT post yesterday:

Excellent, did you ever build the Johnny Lightening 1950's Batmobile?

The answer is it's in the pipeline!

Scale was too large for Northern Heights so has sat unbuilt. Here is the Johnny Lightening Batmobile, along with the CORGI version and my own scratch built one. Interesting that I bought the Johnny Lightening one in London on a visit. Didn't see it in the US.

Also two photos off line that show the PYRO car that was the basis for my Batmobile.

Terranova47

USA

SOVIET SPACE BOAT

I saw this old friend again this year. Its a Soviet futuristic boat. About 10 years ago I used it as the cover of an online custom Project SWORD box art project. I called it the SWORD Moon Dart. It doesn't need SWORD to make it look good though. Its a brilliant example of how cool Soviet space toy design was back in the day.