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Quantum Of Solace Aston Martin

20 Dec 2008

While I'd love to be able to afford the real thing, the Aston Martin DBS that featured in Quantum Of Solace is now available as a gorgeous 1:43 scale diecast model.

aston martin quantum of solace.jpg

More information and purchase options here

Taxi 2

20 Oct 2008

I'm a big fan of Luc Besson and absolutely love the Taxi series of films.

French company Attakus have produced a limited edition version of the famous supercharged taxi from the film. At about 50 euro a pop these are definitely aimed at collectors and are NOT toys:

More info on their site.

Ford Anglia From Harry Potter

20 Oct 2008

The Warner Brothers Studio lot has a special area dedicated to showing off some of the vehicles that have featured in their films. Universal Studios has one as well, but you can't get close to anything, but that's another story...

While I was there in 2007 they had the Ford Anglia from Harry Potter on display. Unfortunately the photo I took didn't come out as well as I would have liked:

Funnily enough Corgi produced a scale diecast version of it, though it doesn't have the holes in the windscreen. It also looks a lot less battered than the real one in Warner:

In common with most of the film and TV items produced by Corgi it's currently not available from them directly, but I did manage to pick one up from an eBay vendor for next to nothing.

Eleanor From Gone In 60 Seconds

13 Oct 2008

Image via Wikipedia

Gone in 60 Seconds may not be the best film that Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie have done, but it's an adrenalin charged bit of escapist fun.

Cage's character fixates throughout the film about a particular car - "Eleanor", so I thought this scale diecast model was pretty cool:

Eleanor from "Gone in 60 seconds"

Unfortunately it doesn't come with Angelina Jolie attached, which is a pity!

Knight Rider

12 Oct 2008

Image via Wikipedia

Knight Rider, starring David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, was a massive hit in the 1980s.

While they've recently started showing an updated version of the series, the original is always going to be the one people of my generation are going to remember. We grew up on it.

Kit - the car - was as much a star of the show as his driver, so a radio controlled version of Kit is pretty cool:

knight rider kit