6 February 2017

[Comparison] Matchbox Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren

Not much to show off here. 2017 marked the returned of Mercedes, and they started it off with another SLR McLaren. It looked so similar to the first one that came out back in 2009 as far as photographic memory serves, so let's see if Mattel has made any changes since:





Oh. The new one doesn't have the blinker tampo.

Aside from the blinkers, the plate number, it seem the casting itself is the same. The new one is a grey silver whereas the old is a blueish silver. There's always the anomaly with some of the other tampos for being applied poorly, but I suppose it's worth mentioning the brake light tampos are a different shade of red, the bottom red lights on the back are with less detail in the new, and the "SLR" badge may actually be a different font altogether. But again, with Mattel's declining product quality, these could indeed be a case of bad tampo application. Who knows.

That's it. *shrugs*