2010 Nürnberg Toy Fair

Thanks for the news, Albert! You mean you are at Nürnberg?

The surprise of today for us Frenchs is also Herpa's 70's Renault 5!

Albert,

Hi. Great to hear you are actually at Nurnberg and providing us with first hand reports of what is on show and up coming from the manufacturers.

Two things. Firstly, Herpa, good to see they are offering lots of new PKWs for us 9best this year so far) and though I have got all of them, the kits idea sounds great and could interest me to get more copies of earlier models. Cheap too. The thing about Herpa is that it is the first I have heard of a Renault 5 and NSU Prinz Coupe coming. Nothing on mo87.de before today, though we knew of many of the Herpa releases for 2010 already. Great though. When are these expected ? Do we know from Herpa ?

The second thing, Neo. I am somewhat surprised that after such a long time, we see only the Saab and a near to complete Mercedes ready. They seemed to have had such a long time to develop and produce the models confirmed last year but only have one (and nearly another) to show. I am sure they were planning a June 2009 release for these models initially then said end of year. Now, into the next year we have one model that may be available in the next month or two.

I am not having a go if they deliver what they say they would do. I will be happy to wait if they deliver all the models they announced. But, for me, they should be in a position to deliver now. I would not want another manufacturer saying such good things about what is to come, without delivering, Better to say nothing at all and surprise us later rather than get us all excited and then postpone - in my opinion. Could you enlighten us as to what Neo plan and have in mind for the future ?

Thanks and enjoy the experience, Gary

Gary, Neo will release 3 models each time. At first these three mentioned (Saab, MB and Jaguar), then some time later 3 more... 3, 3..

Another information about these NEo resin models is that wheels will roll, so the cars won´t have that "solid" look that some resin miniatures have.

I will go to see the other manufacturers today. Let´s see if I am able to show some pictures using my little netbook.

Another surprise is that Welly has done what they have promised. They show the Land Rover Defender in real 1:87 scale. That's great.

And I also love the Herpa news. R5 is cool, NSU also and the Manta looks fabulous.

Spark announces in the 2010 catalog the next 1/87 models, and they promise they will be made. At the moment in the catalague there are pictures of the real cars:

Aston Martin V8 Vantage 2007 black
Aston Martin V8 Roadster 2007 silver
Aston Martin Rapide 2009
Aston Martin One 77 2009
Aston Martin Cygnet 2010 silver
Aston Martin V12 Vantage 2009

Transporter Team Ecurie Ecosse 1959
Transporter equipe Matra 1970
Renault Saviem SG2
Alpine A110 1800 winner Monte Carlo 73
Lancia Stratos winner Monte Carlo 1979
Lancia Stratos winner Monte Carlo 1975
Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.0 1973 iroc green

And already seen and/or shown

Audi RS V10 red
Audi Quattro Sport white
Pagani Zonda Spyder yellow
Porsche 911 Carrera RS 1992 white
Porsche 917 LH 2nd Le Mans 1970

I'm hoping someone will have some new tooling for some high detail 60's American cars.