Anybody remember how many of these were produced?

http://racegrooves.com/$$/eB/dE/2009/RoutemasterDoubleDeckerBus.jpg

200 per this site

http://www.geocities.jp/ds_3298/matchboxmbx31austinminivan-2007mcch.html

No idea but I would like to have one. Great bus.

And here is a post by Jim about the bus.

http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showpost.php?p=2011078&postcount=5

Thanks!

Nice bus. I love the Routemaster buses.

I like them too but it's too skinny wnad wiggles and flops down the track
so I'm letting this one go :)

Are you selling it???

Yes, well, it's up for auction.

Routemaster Auction (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=2&campid=5335845559&toolid=10001&customid=routemaster&ext=140324120007&item=140324120007)

I like them too but it's too skinny wnad wiggles and flops down the track
so I'm letting this one go :)

Mattel did a superb job decorating this casting in authentic Lesney livery as applied to their fleet of 1950s AEC Regent staffbuses in the late 1970s until closure of the UK factories
But:
Scalewise its too wide to look more than a caricature, I guess to fit on the track sets - Lesney captured the proportions & curves perfectly with their first 5c Routemaster, but oddly the 2nd larger 5d casting is a cruder effort
The Mattel Matchbox casting is based on this renovated for the current still running Heritage services with ugly hopper windows

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/sms88/2008-Apr022.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/sms88/2008-Apr045.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/sms88/2008-Apr023.jpg
And here is the last millenium original condition Routemaster as modeled by Lesney
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/sms88/RM719-1.jpg