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Thundershot wrote:Cheers
I'll have to go back tomorrow & take another look for those :)

I don't know too much about the set, are they particularly rare?
The Lotus seems to turn up in every box of junk cars I sort though.
The gift set itself is quite hard to find. It used to sell for around the £200 - £300 mark if I remember (when I was seriously collecting Bond). Here's a link to a picture

http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/29424/rec ... ble-finds/

and a close up of the three harder to find parts

http://www.vectis.co.uk/Page/ViewLot.as ... 4&Start=20

The Juniors (and Seniors) Lotus are quite common as it was very popular and produced over a few years. The Stromberg helicopter is the next, then the Jaws van and then I'd say the Mercedes. I just spotted a link to one that sold on eBay for £30.

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Thanks for the info R.B. sadly no sign of the other ones :(
I've also seen the van, in an old magazine article, as part of another 007 Juniors gift set which included the Space Shuttle, Drax helicopter, Aston Martin & Lotus.

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My local Model Zone shop has been selling these guys off for only 20p each..for that price I simply couldn't resist.

The guy, @ the till, must of loved me as I paid with all the 1p coins I've been accumulating over the last few months :evil:
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Another blast from the past, courtesy of the East Anglian Air Ambulance charity shop:
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You seem to ave a great deal of luck with finds locally. I don't think I've found much in charity shops for some years. My best finds come from carboots and I struggle to get to them since my little boy was born.

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My persistence seems to pay off, I'll happily visit the same shops many times a week, 99% of the time nothing nice will turn up.

This truck's far from mint, but it looks nice alongside my pair of (Corgi Jr's) Metropolis City police cars...if I can find one, I'd like to add the Daily Planet helicopter to the set too.

The shop also had the (junior version) Spider-man custom van aswell but the stickers were too badly damaged for me to consider buying it.
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Thundershot wrote:Another blast from the past, courtesy of the East Anglian Air Ambulance charity shop:
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Ohhh, I love that. Superb.
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Chopper wrote:Ohhh, I love that. Superb.
There is something nice about it...I mean.. it's such a basic toy which was obviously a cheap & cheerful money spinner, on Corgi's part, to cash in on their Superman license yet it just works so well.
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Oooh I had a very battered version of the Supermobile when I was young.

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I had that sub with the punching chrome arms! Mad!

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action-figure-supplies wrote:Oooh I had a very battered version of the Supermobile when I was young.
My Super Powers Supermobile also got battered after the earthquake.
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