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It is with sad announcement that one of our well-known retailers that many of us have known for years and some of us still go to today is closing its doors this year.   Years of faltering sales have sunk the company in deep debt and bankruptcy was the only way to go, spurring a surprise store closings that started with a few stores before a few days later escalating into a full-blown nationwide store closing.   It is sad, it hurts, it angers us, and some are trying to buy the company to save it, but nothing can change the past.   While Toys-R-Us has been doing quite good last year with a wide selection of diecast and bringing back Majorette to the U.S., years of sloppy inventory and creeping prices (not to mention probably some nonsense up in the corporate ladder) has put the largest toy retailer down the path to bankruptcy.   So to celebrate the loss of a big brand here’s a special M2 Machines hauler that I found last year and so far the only one I’ve seen, ...

2018 marks 100 years of Chevrolet Trucks and if you haven’t noticed lately there is a lot of celebration in special diecast models of Chevrolet Trucks.   One of the brands to celebrate is Motormax who released the updated 2016 Silverado 1500 last year and continues the trend with various colors and now even the 2018 100 th special edition package with blue paint, CHEVROLET inside the bowties, and new wheels. The current Silverado was updated for 2014 with more refinement, fuel efficiency, and up-to-date technology added to the trucks, yet despite the updates there was a lot of criticism of the styling that looked more evolutionary that revolutionary and really didn’t speak all new when compared to the previous-generation.   For 2016 Chevrolet resolved that issue with a new front-end that features a body-colored (or chrome) grille with lights that stretch across more and are slimmer with projector headlights up top and LED signal lights just be...