Either that or make Lionel pay more for the license so they make better quality cars. Or revive the brand competition, I'm sure if Hot Wheels gets NASCAR license the competition would be good so Lionel would finally put effort
And that's why i've never been the biggest fan of preordering, or solely basing whether or not a car should be produced based off of preordering. When you preorder, you have ABSOLUTELY ZERO idea how the car is actually going to come out. This was straight up false advertising.
I hate Lionel diecasts, Action was so much better, I havnt collected a diecast since Action quit making them, the quality has gone completely down while the price has gone totally up, its a sad time to be a NASCAR diecast collector.
The job done on this diecast is actually disgusting how it turned out. When I saw Joey was running the 2016 mosaic picture paint scheme again last year I was like, "Oh hell yeah, that's awesome to see back" and was going to get the diecast of it until I saw how it came out here. The level of disappointment in Lionel and Penske as well for approving it to be produced like this is real. Lionel could have had an extra $100+ of my dollars through this car but nope. Lionel just had to show why they are easily the most hated diecast producers of all-time once again. NASCAR really need to shred Lionel's exclusive diecast license with them and sign with a different diecast producer who actually care enough to not let insults like this to slip through the prototype stage into production for us collectors.
That would still be Lionel. The only significant brands of old NASCAR diecast that aren't owned by Lionel are Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and Ertl/Racing Champions. I guess Brookfield Colectors' Guild might also count, since that was QVC's brand, but I don't see them reviving For Race Fans Only any time soon.
@@mpf1947Another company that’s made NASCAR diecasts whose not owned by Lionel is C&C Sports who have made a bunch of diecasts from the modified tour.There’s also the company that owns the Adventure Force line who released a NASCAR diecast last year.
Absolutely hideous! I too was looking forward to this diecast! I wasn't able to get ahold of a 2016 diecast so I was very much looking forward to this...but its horrible! Sadly it'll probably become a collectable diecast in the years to come.