I took a short city break to Berlin this weekend to soak up some of that good beer and Cold War atmosphere - and while exploring what used to be the DDR before the Wall came down, I realized that as much as the Brandenburg Gate was a symbol of the city so was a certain automobile...

Yesterday I was touring some aviation museums in Kent, the county known as “the Garden of England”, and I took a moment to stop off at the Hornby Hobbies Visitors Centre. Here’s a photo essay!

Those of a certain age might recall this short-lived TV show from the late 80's...

Hey folks, it’s a been a while since I posted, but after I picked up this new item at a Toy Fair last month, I had to take some shots to share...

The randomness of the hunt is always surprising. Sometimes you go in a store and find something unexpected and cool, sometimes the racks are filled with peg-warmers. But this is the first time I’ve come across a massive drop of just *one* casting...

A couple of shots of some castings from the 2017 HW Lamborghini series, featuring the Reventon Roadster, Murcielago and Reventon...

So a while back I posted about a cool tabletop game called Gaslands (see here), an apocalyptic road-race car-carnage extravaganza that some of my gamer buddies are getting into - and to encourage me to play, my good friend Mike made me a custom car as a birthday gift!

On my side of the big pond, releases from Greenlight usually only appear in stock with specialist collector vendors, and then for top dollar - so imagine my surprise to see a whole bunch of these appear from out of nowhere in my local discount store...

The HW Star Wars Carships line has always hovered on the wrong side of my collecting impulse, largely due to cost versus interest - even though technically it does represent a fusion of two of my favorite things.

In the Venn Diagram that covers the folks who post on LaLD, I’m sure there’s a sweet spot between the categories of “collector”, “gamer” and “customizer”, and I was thinking of those folks while reading the rulebook for Gaslands this week, a tabletop car-combat game from Osprey Wargames that is built around using Hot…

The 2018 Red Bull Air Race season started this weekend with a real barn burner out in Abu Dhabi, so in honour of that I’m posting up a couple of shots of this 1/100 scale die cast Zivko Edge 540 from Bburago...

A few months ago I was in the city of Nottingham, not to rob from the rich and give to the poor, but for a business meeting. Naturally, I couldn’t wander around without finding some diecasts...

A few months back I did a post extolling the virtues of Ertl’s 1980's vintage Blade Runner die-casts, and later another one talking about production designer Syd Mead’s one and only Hot Wheels casting (the ace Sentinel 400 Limo).

The pegs in my local stores have been ghost towns recently, but then out of nowhere E case and F case stuff from last year has suddenly bubbled up to the surface, so I picked up these...

Clearing out some pix from my hard drive and I found these shots I’d taken of a ‘69 COPO Corvette from last year’s Flames 5-Pack - so I had to share.

Wandering into my local £-store, I found the pegs fully restocked and untouched; but somehow a time-warp had deposited the contents of a bunch of 2016 E cases there rather than anything current!

I went to Iceland for a vacation, and I thought it was kinda funny that the only HW I saw on sale was this model from 2005...

Saw this over on the Star Wars site Jedi News, and it may be of interest for collectors of stuff from the Galaxy Far Far Away...