Lego Speed Champions

As a die cast collector and general fan of real world racing cars (though I don't see nearly enough in real life), the new line of Lego called Speed Champions featuring licensed vehicles appealed to me when I first saw the images back in late 2014.

Walking into Toyworld, I was informed that Speed Champions had arrived over the weekend and checking out the stock and the pricing, I selected two of the smaller kits.

Going back a few days later, I picked up the other two smaller kits.

Looking at the Lego kits verses images of real life cars, Lego have done a fantastic job in trying to match colours, details and the overall look and feel of a real car as close as possible using Lego bricks. Each car does have the tendency to be rather tall and "fat" compared to the real car, and of course trying to use square blocks to imitate curves is always going to be hard. My biggest issue are all those stickers - I really wish they were all printed bricks (though of course that will push the price up).

Rounding out my purchases a few days later - the F14 T & Scuderia Ferrari Truck.
I have a "thing" for trucks, and over the years have collected many Lego trucks that sadly for the most part sit in storage tubs as I don't have the display room for everything I wish to display.
This large truck set, is very very nice looking in person and will be the first set I pull out to build eventually.