Hong Kong Recap - Blind Box Die Cast

Over the next week (or two) there will be a series of blog entries regarding my finds (or lack of finds) from my recent trip to Hong Kong.

After being taken to a toy (and everything else) store and seeing that they sold Japanese blind box items (known as gashapon), I started seeking out the other stores in the same chain to see what they had in stock. Eventually I came across a store that had two different sets of 1/64 scale "die cast" cars sold in these blind boxes - both by F-Toys, and both sets I had seen on my travels of the online store I get my Japanese Transformers from.

The first set was a Lamborghini set, featuring three different models of cars each with three colours on each car, for a total of 9 different combinations. Each box was marked with either a 1, 2 or 3 which represented each of the three different models available, so I was able to get each model with only the colour remaining a mystery. At a second store, each of the 1, 2, 3 numbers had actually been blacked out so the boxes were true blind boxes.

The second set was a Classic Japanese car collection and much like the Lamborghini set had three models of car, each with three colour combinations. Again each box was marked 1, 2 or 3 but this time I was unable to find a box #2 so could only get two of the vehicles leaving the colour choice a mystery.

Walking around a hobby shop that I stumbled across while exiting a department store, I saw some old blind box die cast that were familiar to me, the CM's 1/64 Rally Die Cast collection. Way back in 2008 while on holiday in Singapore (and before I was collecting die cast), I picked up a couple of these Rally Cars (from the Toyota and Lancia series). The versions I found in Hong Kong had been opened at some point and the contents marked and I picked up all they had in order to add to my small CM's collection.