Guilty Pleasures #1: The Hot Wheels Porsche Boxster Spyder...

 Some call this the worst licensed new model of 2012. I don't. And that's what this series of posts is about really - castings I love that are technically not up to scratch, and this really is a good casting to start with.

The real car is excellent, and has just entered its 2nd generation looking better than ever, so it was brilliant to see that Hot Wheels was branching out with Porsche, and this was just the start of a trend that has given us somewhat unexpected modern castings like the Panamera (albeit the Turbo S version) and eye-wateringly good classic castings such as the 993 GT2, 934 Turbo RSR, 356A Outlaw...the list goes on. However, this casting proportionally is just not right. From some angles the casting is a beauty, but others reveal that the front and back ends are both a little bulky, and the fact that it has not yet received tampos on the rear does nothing to help this. In addition to that the wheels don't quite sit perfectly in the wells, and there is some overhang meaning it's not necessarily the best idea to push the wheels fully in.

Despite all this, it's a casting that I actually really like, and it did worry me for a time that it would be viewed as 'too bad' to return after it's 2012 debut in white and red, but those fears were put to rest when it returned in 2015 as part of the Porsche Series 8-car set in a great blue and white deco with gold 10 spokes. I'm happy to own all three versions of the Boxster, and hope it returns again in another three years or before. Look out for more of my Guilty Pleasures in the coming weeks...