I got 2nd place in the Greenlight Collectibles Photo Contest!

A few weeks ago Greenlight Collectibles announced ,via Facebook, that they would be having a photo contest for whoever could take the most unique picture using Greenlight brand products. Since Greenlight has some of my favorite castings ever made, I knew I had to enter.

I spend hours going through my 1/64 collection and pulling Greenlight brand cars out. I set them up all over and even used my Greenlight tools and accessory set to help make some of the photos more realistic. Here is a small sample of the shots I submitted:

You can see all my entries HERE. I have quite a few so be sure to scroll down to see them and all the other awesome entries submmited!  

There was some really stiff competition! People took some super nice shots and own incredible car collections. After all the entries were in and reviewed, the winners were announced......

And I got second place in Greenlight's Facebook Photo contest! Yeehaa!!!

Here is my second place photo

I'm so pumped to even get second as there were so many talented guys who submitted entries. A huge THANK YOU goes out to Greenlight Collectibles and all the participants!

See the full list of winners and their photos at http://greenlighttoys.com/photocontestwinners.html

New finds 10/06/2012

Boy has it been a busy week! I did manage to pick a few new cars up while was in Illinois over the weekend and scored a few at local stores and off Ebay too.

Here's the few I got in Illinois. They are a GreenLight County Roads 1975 Dodge Monaco and a Greenlight Hot Pursuit series 1968 Corvette and 1975 Dodge Monaco New York State Patrol car. Greenlight makes some of the most accurate cars and their Monacos are one of my all time favorite castings. What's funny is the single car was $5.99 and the two car set was $6.99!

I also scored two more Greenlight Hollywood series Blues Brothers 1975 Dodge Monaco Chicago Police cars. I have about a dozen or so of these but they hardly ever show up in stores! I grab them every time I see them!

I have been looking for this next find ever since I saw it on Ebay a few weeks back.I finally found it at a local Meijers store. It's a 2012 Hot Wheels Motor Cycle Batcycle. It's 1:64th scale (of course!) and has a really nice Batman figure on it. I'm not a big motorcycle collector but anything Batman is awesome!

Next up is a hard to find Johnny Lightning Dukes of Hazzard Enos Dodge Monaco. I won this little gem on Ebay and got it for a good price too! Most of the time these JL patrol cars go for $15-25 a piece! I like the Greenlight Monaco casting better but this one is decent. 

Besides the packaging, you can tell the difference between the JL Rosco Monaco and the JL Enos Monaco is that the Enos Monaco has the light bar reversed (the red side goes on the drivers side in the show) and has the 83502 license plate for the deputy car.

New finds 8-16-2012

I went to Meijers and Target tonight and found some a few new cars. Nothing too exciting but it's always nice to add to the collection!

The first three are Hot Wheels main line cars. The first is a orange and yellow '72 Ford Gran Torino Sport, the second is a lime green '68 Hemi Baracuda and the third is a lot of three A-Team 1983 GMC Vanduras. I probably have 50 or so of the A-team vans now!

The next four cars are Matchbox main line cars. A 1968 Ford Mustang GT/CS from the Old Town series, a Lamborghini Miura P400 S from the Heritage Classics line, a Volkswagen Beetle 4x4 from the Desert line and a Bobcat/loader called Skidster from the Airport line. Matchboxes may not have the selection Hot Wheels has, but they make more of the industrial, city and odder year sports/muscle cars that are available.

The next three are special series cars. The first is a Team Hot Wheels '70 Dodge Hemi Challenger I got at Target, the second is a Hot Wheels DC Universe Batman Batmobile that someone at my work got me at a local Meijers store. It is pretty cool looking and doesn't resemble any of the mainline Batmobiles that have been made so far. The next is a Greenlight Hollywood Series Dom's Dodge Charger from Fast Five. Besides the lack of wider slicks on the rear, the car looks great and very authentic. Dom's Charger is in the same line as the Two-lane Blacktop GTO from a few posts back. The Greenlight cars are so of the most accurate cars you can get without spending a fortune.