markkaz
06-01-2009, 11:23 AM
Anybody remember how many of these were produced?
http://racegrooves.com/$$/eB/dE/2009/RoutemasterDoubleDeckerBus.jpg
http://racegrooves.com/$$/eB/dE/2009/RoutemasterDoubleDeckerBus.jpg
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View Full Version : 5th MCCH Gathering Routemaster markkaz 06-01-2009, 11:23 AM Anybody remember how many of these were produced? http://racegrooves.com/$$/eB/dE/2009/RoutemasterDoubleDeckerBus.jpg chriscobbs 06-01-2009, 01:27 PM 200 per this site http://www.geocities.jp/ds_3298/matchboxmbx31austinminivan-2007mcch.html 96gsfan 06-01-2009, 01:28 PM No idea but I would like to have one. Great bus. chriscobbs 06-01-2009, 01:30 PM And here is a post by Jim about the bus. http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showpost.php?p=2011078&postcount=5 markkaz 06-01-2009, 01:38 PM Thanks! dragonhead00 06-02-2009, 02:54 AM Nice bus. I love the Routemaster buses. markkaz 06-02-2009, 02:26 PM I like them too but it's too skinny wnad wiggles and flops down the track so I'm letting this one go :) sschevyman1 06-02-2009, 05:39 PM Are you selling it??? markkaz 06-04-2009, 11:42 AM Yes, well, it's up for auction. chriscobbs 06-04-2009, 02:30 PM 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) SMS88 06-04-2009, 05:21 PM 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 vBulletin® v3.8.7, Copyright ©2000-2012, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
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