This was quick. Only four days passes since Red Bull’ maiden F1 win (and 1-2 finish) and Minichamps already announced special Chinese GP Die Cast editions. There are several products available to pre-order now (ready late 2009):
For Red Bull fans 1:43 Minichamps die cast model Red Bull F1 RB5 2009 2-Car Set – Sebastian Vettel & Mark Webber first win and second place for Red Bull at the Chinese GP – Limited Edition with rain tyres.
For Sebastian Vettel fans there is also 1:18 scale 2009 Chinese GP race winning car or the smaller version in 1:43 scale.
For Mark Webber fans there is his 2009 Chinese GP Red Bull car either in 1:18 scale or in 1:43 scale.
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I have just about every RBR minichamps model released as a friend of mine sells them on eBay on the side. Prices seem to go up just about every year which is a shame. £35 is an awful lot to pay for a 1:43 scale model.
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we can talk about the prices of all the F1 team merchandise, for example USD50 for a cap … yes, the merchandise is important source of income for the teams but so high prices are driving many people towards the not so genuine stuff sold at fraction of the prices of the official merchandise. perhaps the teams believe that if the prices were lower the possible higher quantity sold would not generate more income that less quanity sold at these high prices …
You not perhaps going off on a tangent here? The Minichamps models pricing has apparently rocketed in the past 12 months due to increases metal prices apparently, which seems like a bit of a cop out given prices of zinc etc haven’t gone up by about 30% which is the case with the Minichamps models pricing.
Yes merchandising is vastly overpriced (though a cap in the UK is about £25/USD35), but at least their pricing seems to remain steady and not fluctuate because of the cost of nylon or whatever supposedly jumping up over night.
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I happen to know quite a bit about die cast cars production (although I have no connection with any of the F1 die casts
) and I can tell you that the skyrocketing prices of the F1 models must have been caused by some factors other than raising cost of metals. the manufacturing cost is only a fraction of these retail prices and the metal cost is only one part of the manufacturing cost. and … the metals prices have been falling for at least 6 months …
what is very expensive is the tooling and development cost. so if these are limited editions with some unique parts that may affect the production cost per unit. well, and there is the weaker pound too
Production license may be the main factor
But that’s serious, they’re limited editions and the explanation is 100% fair to what the costs rise means, when will be Williams first vicotry since 2004 I even would give the money for a die cast model for double of it’s price (however I expect it to be around 30 punds! HAHA!!!).
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Williams victory ? This week maybe ?
Ahh, I voted for them, but I think that Toyota always have the biggest chance to do it
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