As per
@Apok's request I've updated the title and OP accordingly - if there's anything you guys want doing please let me know. 👍
Or just get @Apok to hassle me until I've done it. 
Thanks,
Josh.
Boy, we've come a long way, haven't we?
Great job, and high-five.
This thread has been the mother of threads.
This thread gave birth to both the Diorama and Customizing threads - there were diorama photos and discussions in here, and customizing photos and discussions galore in here, before we decided to go into detail on those subjects in their own threads.
And now we have a 'Mattel'-specific thread also born from it.
We have to all admit that in the world of die-cast toys, Mattel rules big - very, very big, and to various sorts of collectors - from the schoolboy who has only $5.00 a week to spend on it to collectors who can blow $72,000 on a single specimen.
That gives it a special mystique that sets it firmly apart from yon regular 'die-cast model cars' manufacturer.
So it was time to build it and hopefully they will come in the same way they came to the customizing and diorama threads.
And we may even see a return of the core 'Hot Wheelers' who were in here and drifted away if they are given a space undisturbed by a thousand other manufacturers. While, yes, mention of the Panda was made, there were many other collectors here who collected
only or
predominantly Mattel products and who also faded away as soon as the Kyoshos and Tomicas took over the thread.
I was also to blame for this.
In fact when I first came in and posted Majorettes I had a tiff with Jason misunderstanding him when he said 'No Majorettes here'. (He meant 'no Majorettes for sale' where he lived.)
I've posted Tomicas, JLs, Jadas by the score, Bburago, Maisto, Moto Max, New Ray . . and many others.
I've given posters like
a6m5,
AOS and
Kakashi, who consistently post superior quality and unique models via absolutely superb photography 'likes' whenever I'm in the thread and see such posts to encourage them to keep posting such beautiful work.
I was all for posting any miniature scale die-cast model car in here from any brand - and I've done so prolifically - from micro-machines to the top of the scale in miniatures 1:43s.
Obviously, since many members post 1:43s in the 'Scale Model Thread' if one was into 1:43s that thread would be a better place to be.
That thread is a General Scale Model thread and covers it
all from cars to ships, tanks, and planes - except for non-scale models like HWs.
Small True-to-Scale Die-cast Model Cars are a world of their own.
Because technology has now overtaken almost every industry, the miniature model car industry took a leap in its production technology.
The 'HW-type' cars produced by the model-makers now are phenomenal in their detail and scaling.
But they still aint 'HWs'.
HWs are a different type of ' *
koff scale model.
Having the two together, as well as having the discussion labelled 'Hotwheels' made it a miasma of Hot Wheel collectors wading through galleries of exquisite miniature scale-model cars that made their HWs look shabby, or eager miniature model car enthusiasts having to put up with a schoolboy's collection of the same old Hot Wheels posted a dozen times by others in the past.
But, everybody needs a space to express themselves comfortably, and so the 'Mattel' thread for ' Mattel' freaks - and I am one, and have been since I held my first Lesney - has been born.
This doesn't mean the thread must be on the top of page one of the Rumble Strip everyday. It is a 'hobby' thread.
If one particular 'hobby' thread is what is on top of page one of the Rumble Strip everyday we have a problems far deeper than we can imagine - it means someone lives in that thread 24/7, and keeps bumping it.
I think it will grow unobstrusively as more Mattel-based collectors come out of the woodwork, and realise they don't have to 'compete' with the likes of Tomica, Kyosho, etc, who are not even in the same league.
The OP in the Mattel Thread is also quite extensive: there are many collector activities detailed in there - not just creating a gallery of models.
We must regard the evolution of
this thread - the Miniature Scale Model thread positively, not negatively.
It is now a full blown Small Scale Model thread.
To me that includes any model from micros to 1:43s. (One should compare a 1:43 to a 1:18 to realise that it does fall into the 'miniature' slot - as well as edging in to the 'large-scale' slot.)
And until you inform me otherwise,
Josh, since we've posted everything from Mad Propz to tanks in here previously, I will continue to post any and all brands of my miniature scale models in here (including my more expensive Hot Wheels - especially if the package is legally branded as 1:64 (etc) but when it comes to talking Hot Wheels tracks, videos, Larry Wood, el Segundo, etc, I'll do it in detail in a separate thread and not in a consumer thread that reels by a page a day. Too much information gets buried that way.
So . . . on to the new era. The thread now covers all makes of miniature models, and until the OP informs me otherwise, I shall continue to contribute such gems as I acquire.
It's the only way to get things done.
I have to remember who is the 'real' boss of this thread.
I had an excuse! I was doing my homework!
...at 1 am.
Same excuse you've given me over the years for not being able to race me Online. After challenging me, too.
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