| A diecast toy is a toy made of plastic | | | | nice car or have a dream car most of the |
| and a special metal called Zamak which | | | | times want to have it at least at a |
| is a mix of zinc and aluminum. Most of | | | | smaller scale. The usual scales are |
| the usual toys made through the | | | | 1:12, 1:18, 1:24 and 1:64. The 1:12 is a |
| die-casting method are the scale models | | | | large model that is usually intended for |
| of cars, trains, plains and construction | | | | collectors. The 1:24 is the most common |
| equipment. Most of these toys are | | | | scale for the models intended for |
| usually collectible toys like for | | | | children for playing. Also pretty |
| example the very famous Mach 5 from the | | | | popular are the 1:64 scaled toys though |
| Speed racer animated series. Nowadays | | | | these are not intended for small |
| most of the real means of | | | | children because of the tiny pieces that |
| transportations as well as some | | | | they are made from. Famous cars like the |
| fictional ones are made through this | | | | cars from Need for Speed or the animated |
| method. | | | | movie Cars or the animated series Speed |
| The good thing about the diecast toys is | | | | Racer - Mach 5 are usually available in |
| that they can be identical with the real | | | | most of the existing scales. Of course |
| size original. They can have all kind of | | | | the price varies from a scale to |
| features to describe the real thing. | | | | another. Also if a toy was produced in a |
| These kinds of toys became popular as | | | | limited edition its price is going to |
| collectibles during the 50s when the | | | | rise over the advertised price |
| detail and quality of the toys rose. In | | | | especially amongst collectors. |
| the beginning the most popular diecast | | | | You find pretty much any car you can |
| toys were the Matchbox series and the | | | | think of at a smaller scale than the |
| Hot Wheels series. In fact Matchbox was | | | | real one. All the car producers have |
| so successful that when people referred | | | | their old and new models scaled down. |
| to a toy as a Matchbox toy they meant | | | | Also military vehicles are more and more |
| any toy made of plastic and Zamak. Since | | | | popular both as toys and as |
| these toys are exact copies of the real | | | | collectibles. You can even get cars and |
| thing at a smaller scale a lot of | | | | other vehicles at the 1:87 scale so that |
| companies realized that by reproducing a | | | | you can have them as a key chain. If you |
| vehicle or piece of equipment at a | | | | like these kinds of toys you have to be |
| smaller scale, as a toy, could mean good | | | | careful not to become dependent. This |
| advertising for them. Thus nowadays you | | | | hobby can be a very expensive one and |
| can find different airline plains at | | | | you might need a lot of space for your |
| different scales, cars, trucks, | | | | cars and such. There are several |
| helicopters, buses and even construction | | | | websites apart from the toy stores that |
| equipment and agricultural machinery. | | | | sell different models and scales of |
| All the car producers have their models | | | | cars. Collectors' sites offer |
| reduced at different scales. This 100% | | | | information and photos of their |
| reproduction at a smaller scale became a | | | | collections and most of the times the |
| very successful part of the toy | | | | models they buy are still in the |
| manufacturing industry. People who own a | | | | original packaging. |