In regards to Mattel's new Fast & Furious line: My personal thoughts.

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Collector-wise? Aside from maybe a few, such as this Maserati Ghibi, and maybe the larger vehicles like the Navistar(which I might get myself since I don’t think it’d be too far off), this will definitely be a hit or miss for collectors. It really depends on the individual collectors themselves. One collector might be a huge GT40 fan and has many GT40 models in various scales, so they would pick up the GT40 in this line. Another collector might be a big Fast & Furious fan, and gets several of them, probably personal favorites. Another collector might pass on all of them. We all have our own priorities and taste.

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Now that I’ve discussed the collecting aspects, let’s get into the toy aspect. As a toy line, this Fast & Furious stuff is....pretty decent. There’s playsets. There’s larger vehicles with actual figures of the characters+action features, and so on. While I don’t really know if marketing a franchise like this as a toy is the best idea, it’s not a bad line as far as toys go. I’ve seen far worse. I think we all have.

Would more detail plus them being 1:64 scale make it more appealing to collectors? Absolutely. The Jada 1:55 F&F models had more detail plus real riders, and were around the same price. I can’t really fault them for using a major franchise license they have. However, it definitely could have been better to where it would appeal to the collectors as well. Just my two cents.