The ultimate car chase movie now has a scale representation, GreenLight Collectibles in issuing a 1:18 scale replica of the 1970 Dodge Challenger RT as featured in the Vanishing Point. Look for this one on shelves in summer 2020.
Product# 13582
GreenLight Dodge Challenger RT (Weathered) – Vanishing Point
I have a similar beautiful model in beautiful blue color in 1:24, branded by WIX. I believe, in fact it was produced either by Danbury Mint or by Franklin Mint.
Very nice model overall, with nice attention to details, with photo-etched front grille, with doors on hinges rather than “dog legs”.
And now, about 10 years later, we are having a model of almost the same quality, but in 1:18. I don’t really understand this tendency of 1:18 “remakes” of good old 1:24 models, without adding more details.
Highway 61 was making great 1:18 1970-’71 Challengers already in the early 2000s. The problem nowadays is that the attention to detail and also overall quality is way worse compared to before Greenlight took over HW61.
HW61 made a white Challenger that was inofficially the Vanishing-Point Challenger already back in 2007 and it looked a lot better than the new release by GL/HW61 that was made recently, despite them using the same old mold. Now with this new weathered release above, to make matters worse, they use their own GL-mold which is a lot less detailed.