Greenlight Club V-Dub

At the end of October, I decided to email the supplier of Greenlight in New Zealand to see if they planned to bring any more 1/64 scale Greenlight into the country in time for Christmas as I was planning to make some USA orders and would hold back some items if I knew it would be sold in New Zealand in order to support local businesses. Sadly the only thing they were planning on adding were Club V-Dub, a series released around June 2015 in the USA and I had already imported the one casting I was slightly interested in.

Visiting Toyworld on what has become an almost daily trip, I noticed that they had received some boxes from the Greenlight distributor and after "chatting up" one of the staff members I was able to open up the boxes in order to see if the store manager had ordered some 1/64 scale die cast for me to browse over. Unfortunately, time constraints did not allow me to really dig into the very large boxes that had been sent and so I left empty handed but promise to be back the next day.

And sure enough the next day I was back and headed over to the die cast section where I was greeted with a few new pegs of 1/64 scale cars from Greenlight - the Club V-Dub series.

Thumbing through the cars looking for (but not expecting to find) a Green Machine, I was heavily surprised to actually find a Green Machine on the pegs and for the first time looked at the Green Machine not just as a potential trade source, but also a car I could add to the collection due to the fact it was actually half green coloured and featured a standard base and wheel/tire combination.

Since I was picking up one car, I decided to make that three and added two regular VW's to my small Greenlight purchase. In person these vehicles are a lot more tempting than images online would lead me to believe.

Roll on February or March 2016, as that is the tentative time frame the Greenlight supplier has advised the next shipment will be due in.