This week was a crazy busy one, with a complete move of the website, some new features, our first contest winner, and the launch of the TORCHBUG.
Sunday kicked off with our most ambitious project yet: moving to a new permanent home at liveandletdiecast.kinja.com. You can also now enter simply liveandletdiecast.com to be taken to the forum. We've tried to make the move seamless and everyone who had authorship on our previous site should have the same privileges on our new site. Of course, if you aren't a member of LaLDieCast yet please let us know in the comments so we can get you started!
On Monday, PHILIPILIHP put out our second weekly review of the customs that have been produced by our members.
CARNAGE717 who might be the most prolific of the customizers, did a General Lee:
We also learned the winner of our first photography contest, DIECAST PHOTOGRAPHY with this amazing Fiesta:
Tuesday, EL_ULY did a review of the reviews
SN210 asked "Which Cars You Want But Can't Justify?"
MYCARNEVERRUNS87 launched the inaugural review of the photography.
A personal favorite of mine is this snap by Xin
That Road Runner won Photo of the Day on our Facebook page. Come join us! Anyone can enter and the competition can be fierce!
On Thursday we learned from Road & Track that Darth Vader will be the first Star Wars car from Hot Wheels
I don't really remember Darth Vader spending a lot of time stuck in traffic during the movies, but maybe it was in the pre-quels?
I reviewed the modern Loop & Drift track from Hot Wheels.
I was not terribly fond of it. However, it did result in me capturing this pic of a Honda Civic grabbing some sweet air:
To which ARCHDUKE posted:
VTEC JUST KICKED IN, BRO!!!!!
TE71 posted his very first post on the extremely popular Marty's Toyota truck from Back to the Future:
ISDI_GUY had some great tips for customization without spending a bunch of money, drilling out rivets, or using toxic chemicals.
FROSTED had a round-up of the discussions on Friday.
BLAZINACE sent a package all the way from Brazil to EL_ULY with some awesome cars.
Finally, The Travelling Torchbug arrived safely to its first stop with MRTHEENGINEER who took some pics of it hanging out with his Jeep.
Best of the Rest:
REBORN PYRRHIC scored a model Trabant.
OTACONMUTASIM found a 1958 Fujica Rangefinder
He also ran the always popular Wagon Wednesday
T_S gave us a look at a resin 1/18 Porsche:
We learned which cars a 6 year old grabs when handed $10 for 10 cars:
JUSTIN YOUNG showed off some of his purchases in the Philippines
DAENDER took pics of his models
And SAABSTORY ran a contest where you had to guess the car based on very little information:
There were also quite a few hawls as new Hot Wheels (finally) hit the pegs. One car in particular that promises to be in demand is the Poppa Wheelie. CARCRASHER88 filled in some details on this latest casting:
Next week we should have updates on the Torchbug as it travels around the world, some more customs, and plenty of great discussions!
Let us know in the comments if there is anything we missed, or anything you'd like to see!
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