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Party Time! Excellent!

Ah, the Mirthmobile. I think a little Bohemian Rhapsody, gentlemen.



GoKenzie!

After finishing the Furious 7 Charger, I was looking for a few nice, quick projects to decompress. It seems fitting that the first of those "quick" projects was a race car.

This Time it Ain't Just About Being Fast

What do Eleanor from Gone in 60 Seconds, the Tumbler from Batman Begins, and the off-road Charger from Furious Seven all have in common? All three were released as ~1:24 replicas after I had over 10 hours worth of work into building my own version, having given up hope of an official release in my preferred scale. Unlike the first two, however, I was close enough to finished with the Charger that I pressed ahead.

Geoffrey Lewis

Geoffrey Lewis
Geoffrey Lewis
July 31, 1935 - April 7, 2015


James Best

James Best
James Best
July 26, 1926 - April 6, 2015


Furious Seven Review

Re-watching the Fast & Furious series in preparation for Furious Seven, one of the things that reasserted itself was how much of its success came from the cast. When The Fast & the Furious came out in the summer of 2001, it was just another summer action flick with a modest budget and relatively unknown actors. But the chemistry among the cast (particularly Paul Walker and Vin Diesel) was palpable, and audiences responded. Some 12 years later, that bond was broken by a real life tragedy, altering the movie that was then in development.

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A Somewhat Unexpected Addition...

Until Jada released their Furious 7 GT-R, I didn't have any specific plans for Brian's various R35s. I would add them to my collection at some point, but I prefer the older Skylines and so assumed that I'd get to them first. Once I had the F7 car in-hand, however, my plans changed and I located one of Jada's older releases to serve as the silver car Brian used at the end of Fast Five and the beginning of Furious 6.