Just a couple of Auto Worlds

After managing to score some very cheap M2 Machines from the store in Japan I order most of my Japanese Transformers from, I took a deeper look at their product offerings and found that they also stock Auto World products.

While in San Francisco (October 2013), I was able to pick up some Auto World releases at Toys R Us stores (and one Walmart), but after getting home and seeing how hard it could be to obtain what I wanted, my interest drifted. When series 2 started arriving at online stores, I was interested in a few more cars but could never pull the trigger on a full set and singles were providing hard and expensive to obtain.

Thankfully, this online store in Japan had one of the cars I wanted from Series 2 as a single - the 58 Plymouth Fury, from the movie "Christine". In hand, this is a stunning release - online images with the car in package with two layers of plastic in the way do not do this car justice. In the coming months, Mattel will be doing the same car in their Retro Entertainment line and it will be good to compare the two side by side and see how Auto World's claim of true 1:64 scale is.

The second car I purchased was due to the way the online store had listed it, the chase versions of Auto World cars are called Ultra Reds which are a deep gloss red car with white stripes. There were two listings for the Series 2 67 Ford Mustang GT, red with white stripes and gloss red with white stripes with the image on each listing clearly showing the differences between the cars. Naturally I ordered the gloss red version, but knew it was a long shot that I was actually going to get an Ultra Red in the mail. It was no surprise when I opened the parcel and found the standard red with white stripe version :-)