Playforever model cars

Playforever model cars

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Simpo Two

Original Poster:

88,823 posts

279 months

Friday 21st March
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These popped up on Facebook and I think they're rather fun. Scroll to the bottom for the expensive ones!

https://playforever.co.uk/pages/shop-the-full-coll...

gruffgriff

1,903 posts

257 months

Sunday 23rd March
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Having programmed the tool cutting for the very first Bruno and then Mimmo it's so great to see Julian's dream realised and continuing. Lovely chap, smoked about in a S107 SLC back then. I'd have grilled him deeply if I'd known then he'd worked with Tom Karen!

He's got a great eye, I especially like the muscle car (serious Dodge Charger concept influence) and the Police car...very stylised but really evocative, well judged restraint.

Wish I still had the Bruno I brought home for my toddler assembled from moulding seconds...

Bungleaio

6,481 posts

216 months

Sunday 23rd March
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I've got a black and gold countach, it's a lovely thing.

Nemophilist

3,146 posts

195 months

Sunday 23rd March
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Brilliant quality and beautiful to behold

Simpo Two

Original Poster:

88,823 posts

279 months

Sunday 23rd March
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I'm not clear on this £6,000 one...

https://playforever.co.uk/products/cnc-103-walnut-...

For that price I'd expect it to be hand-carved from walnut by time-served Bentley craftsmen and the gold to be real gold. But the description says it's CNC-cut from ABS plastic.

PRO5T

5,539 posts

39 months

Tuesday 3rd June
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I bought the kids some couple of years ago, a "Luft" which was alright and a "Velocita" which was a piece of crap.

Bearing in mind, these were bought as toys not as desk objects for posh office dwellers the Velocita was one of those cars (if you can remember that far back!) with really loose axles so it doesn't glide-they sort of rattle in their mountings resulting in not much roll for your effort. It can be pushed bout a metre at most where the Luft rolls until it whacks into something

I did in fact email the firm to ask if ours maybe was faulty but they never even bothered to reply.

Crap company in my opinion, probably too busy pandering to the set who'd buy a £6k push along toy.

Simpo Two

Original Poster:

88,823 posts

279 months

Wednesday 4th June
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PRO5T said:
I did in fact email the firm to ask if ours maybe was faulty but they never even bothered to reply.

Crap company in my opinion, probably too busy pandering to the set who'd buy a £6k push along toy.
I'm learning that any company that advertises on Facebook is likely to be dubious or overly expensive.