“Forgive Me, Lego: I Really Want To Build This Mattel Audi RS2 Brick Set,” was Brian’s headline for his look at the aforementioned Mattel Brick Shop model, and while I’m not as fired up as Brian is for that particular set, I too am intrigued by Mattel’s answer to Lego’s Speed Champions line and have ogled the offerings each time I wander over to the toy sections at Target and Walmart. And by “wander” I mean “make a beeline,” because I always look at the toys.
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It’s Swag Swendsday! Each week, we kick down some sweet, sweet swag to Autopian Members, the cool-kids club for car people that you really should have joined by now. What’s the holdup? You can get in on the fun with a Cloth Tier membership for a mere seven bucks a month (or break off $50 to cover the year, and it works out to way less than five dollars a month – it’s like 14 cents a day!).
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I was in Walmart’s toy section last Friday as my phone’s weather app showed storm icons for the weekend, and I thought it might be fun to do use the time trapped indoors to do a little shootout (or comparo, if you prefer) with Mattel and Lego’s 1/32 scale-ish cars. I plunked the Brick Shop Maserati MC20 and Speed Champions Ferrari F40 into my cart amongst my other essentials (Count Chocula, Coke Zero) and checked out with a plan in place. The rains never came, so I spent the weekend working on and riding my bicycles instead of snapping bricks together, but I have started assembling the cars and you’ll (fingers crossed) see my findings this weekend.
Since I bought the cars strictly for the content, I’m happily donating them to the Autopian swag pile for distribution to a Member – maybe you! Be sure to let me know if you’d like the models to arrive assembled, or returned to pile-of-pieces form so you can enjoy building them yourself. Thanks, Members!
… and now I gotta finish this comparo.
Top graphic images: Lego
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