I've done the cutting in half method for a few years and I can say that with the nextgen cars (and even the harvick cars from late 2021) they made it a lot more difficult to break so its not as simple anymore.
I got the Gen 6 Kevin Harvick Busch Light Car and my dad used pliers and straight up strength to get the base off, probably almost snapped some wheels off lol, car was perfectly fine and he succeeded
@@racecraze What I was meaning by this is Lionel sucks. I just got 4 diecasts today and all of them had very noticeable errors. Also the base on one of them is bent so it wobbles back and forth. And I didnt realize that the F150 molding is the same as the chevy and probably Toyota and is completely inaccurate to the actual truck.
What I do is just lay down the diecast on its roof on a soft carpet surface and a take a hammer and a smash the base in half Do it on a soft surface only Because on a hard surface there’s more of a change you’ll Damage the diecast
