Saturday, July 18, 2015

Tomica Limited Vintage Neo: LV-N106a Toyota Supra 2.0 GT Twin Turbo + 太陽にほえろ! 03(Taiyo ni Hoero) Unmarked Police Version

Tomica Limited Vintage Neo:  LV-N106a Toyota Supra 2.0 GT Twin Turbo + 太陽にほえろ! 03(Taiyo ni Hoero) Unmarked Police Version

We all had "dream cars" during our childhood.  The very first Supra was one of the most prominent one for me, if not my #1 childhood dream car.  

To lot of people, this Supra was not the first gen. model.  However, in Japan, it was.  Before Supra, the JDM car was called Celica XX('Double X').  I adored the car as a young boy, and I adored its name.  When this new "XX" came out, it looked BEAUTIFUL & it was called.............  huh?  Supra to this Non-English speaking kid sounded like a mix between a Soup & Tempura.  Both delicious, but WTF.

It wasn't until couple years later after moving to the U.S. I became really fond of this car.  I couldn't help it after reading all the American car magazines I could get my hands on, like Road & Track and Car & Driver(talk about car porn lol).

First, the white undercover Supra from the hit cop tv show Taiyo ni Hoero:

Tomica Limited Vintage    太陽にほえろ  Taiyo ni Hoero supra

  Tomica Limited Vintage  Police   white supra

It looks good, but I think for me, couple of things I didn't like were:  1) Price is getting up there.  2) While they are of quality, level of detail on these wheels are pathetic for cars costing close to, or over $20.  3) Side mirrors are huge.  Think small truck mirrors.

Moving on to the red.  Both of these cars come with chin spoilers you can glue on. 

tlv tomica limited vintage spoiler part


 While I have never bothered with any glue-on parts sometimes provided by TLV, I thought this looked easy enough, I'll get my superglue out & give it a shot.  

tomica limited vintage toyota supra chin spoiler front glue

tlv toyota supra front spoiler  tomica limited vintage

tlv  LV-N106a Toyota Supra

Tomica Limited Vintage  Toyota Supra

 Tomica Limited Vintage    LV-N106a Toyota Supra tlv

So one of the cars I idolized joins the TLV lineup.  When I first heard the news, I was ecstatic.  $30 later for two of them(thank you AmiAmi), while I'm still happy to have two quality 1/64 scale Supras, I'm nowhere near as excited about it as when I first heard the news.  It's not a 'miss' or a dud, per se.  Just in my opinion, and maybe it's not fair of me, but I do set the bar higher for TLV, which says a lot about their crew & production.  And to be fair, casting is fantastic.  Precision & quality of small details are above what I've seen from the Kyoshos I own(costs more too though lol).

tlv supra










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