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were they in the same Tesco pack as the blue heavy wrecker??

This photo is on Nick website...

This pack is not sealed, would it have left the factory with these models?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ULTRA-RARE-LE ... Swx-9WyI~2

I think Lesney had not a strict content for these 5 packs. There were may be 1-2 special ones (like the Mercedes, blue Wrecker, gold Rolls-rolls [which was released in Japan,too, I think....Ghosty?! ] or the light blue Siva Spyder plus some more) and the rest of the set were random models. These models made (or still make ) the sets more attractive for customers. Mattel uses the same concept these days for example for their 10 packs: one awesome model issue you only get with this set (e.g. metallic blue karmann Ghia) and the other 9 Models...aaaaaah yeah. )

There wasn't a strict packaging order in the tesco packs, too. In the todays 5 packs every model has its own, non-varying place. I think this started in the 90's.

But as Johnboy mentioned: if the pack is not sealed, we can't be sure what was the originally content.
So 99% is just speculation

Greetings,
Linus

Yes, the Gold Rolls-Royce has always been seen as a specific Japan release model from 1977 and 1978 only, how this relates to the dates of the other models seen in the same pack I am not certain without checking, but I would not expect to see a Japanese issue model in my local Tesco store when doing the Weekly shop...

Ghosty.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:Yes, the Gold Rolls-Royce has always been seen as a specific Japan release model from 1977 and 1978 only, how this relates to the dates of the other models seen in the same pack I am not certain without checking, but I would not expect to see a Japanese issue model in my local Tesco store when doing the Weekly shop...

I picked up my gold roller very cheaply at a toyfair in the 1980s. My guess is that it came from a Tesco pack rather than from Japan.

1980's seems a logical date for the Gold Rolls-Royce to be available in the UK, but must be leftover stocks from Japan. This same model was in Bulgaria across the 1985 and 1986 period.

Ghosthunter.

Thanks you two.
I share the view that the roller was sold in tesco packs and in Japan both.
Of course we can't be sure to 100% because lot's of the Tesco packs are not sealed. But I have seen more than 5 of these packs from different sources including a gold roller.

All in all I still need one

Linus

Hallo Linus

Gratulation zum silbernen Mercedes.Hier meine zwei Two Packs.







and my both Models.

Cheers Mathias

Very nice, I don't own any two packs. Here's my little trio of Mercs.