According to thisnone of the Mad Max franchise cars are licensed to be made as models.
Per the Mad Max franchise vehicles seen herelicensing models of these cars [ would seem to be a common sense thing to do yet a fair chunk of money has been left lying on the table with almost zero effort required by the movie right’s owners.
[engineer] Those people are called “workers on the line” or “future robots.” [/e]
[e] Those are either engineers or the banes of an engineer’s existence, people who don’t follow the bloody drawings because they think they know better. :mad: [/e]
Making traditional model kits is a process with high overheads and low per-unit costs. You design the sprue and then cut it into blocks of metal, but once you’ve done that you can have a machine churn them out at a rate of sprues-per-minute without any input. Since a lot of the cost is in the moulds, it’s possible that they didn’t think a cult classic like Mad Max would sell enough kits at the usual prices to pay for the startup costs.
There is a detailed thread with a buildup of the Humongous’ six wheeled truck somewhere. I don’t know where it is so if someone else can point out, that would be great.
Heck, if anyone knows where I can get a Hot Wheels-sized Toyota Tercel or Toyota Echo, let me know. I’m trying to collect a miniature version of every car I’ve ever owned and so far I just have the burgundy 1990 Camry.
What you can do is make your own. You carve a male Tercel (first time “male” and “Tercel” have ever been in the same sentence) mold out of balsa, sized to fit the underpinnings of another Hot Wheel, buy a Mattel Vacuform on eBay, and mold it using clear plastic sheets. Paint it on the inside so it looks nice and shiny and mount it to the chassis you bought. Don’t forget the coffee can tailpipe extensions, wing that looks like it’s about to fall off, and black window plastic that’s starting to peel, just like on your own car!
Isn’t that model essentially a stock car with different decals? They probably already had all the moulds for the car and only needed to change a few cosmetics.
As mentioned above, Aoshima has released The Last of The V-8 Interceptors a couple times. There are also resin kits of a couple of the Aussie police cars used in the original movie, put out by little teensy outfits.
I think the primary problem with tie-in models is that nowadays the movie is in and out of the theater so quickly that by the time a model could hit the shelves it’d be yesterday’s news. Sure, the movie might build a cult following over time, but that audience isn’t nearly large enough to amortize a tool.
Of course, it’s different when you can just put a new decal sheet and a sprue of different wheels into an existing kit.
I need to point out that soon you’ll be able to buy a 1/32 “Ford XB Falcon” slot car from Scalectrix:
