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Just like the flops..what do you think were the best pieces produced (not from a sell out perspective, but your personal favorite pieces):
Chicago Backdraft Set
Chicago Squad Set
Ladder 10
FDNY Squad/Engine Continuity Sets
Chicago OHare Command Vehicle
Chicago OHare Tower 63 Reserve
Diamond Plate Philly Squirt
Looking forward to the rear mount diamond plate. My guess is it will probably be FDNY or CFD. If its CFD I will most assuredly get it..if its FDNY, 75% chance...assuming the quality is there.
FDNY Ladder 10
FDNY Engine 10
NYPD International/Saulsbury ESV
Violetville ALF Engine
Both Baltimore Tillers
Jersey City ALF Ladder
Chicago Mack C E-18
The Chicago squads are very nice(& yes, I only have 1 pair!), & the Skywalker diamond plate made for the best kit-bash subject.(still not done though & received it as a gift when it was dumped off on sale last year)
I posted this in wrong string earlier. After the Dearborn DAIL 911, I would have to say the Fire Bell Suburban is my most cherished Code 3. Really not much to look at, just an extra tampoed hood badge on a FDNY Sub. But it came in a "Mailer Box".
I would also have to give Honorable Mention to The ATEV DC Spring Fling Suburban. Only about a dozen were handed out after a visit to two DC Fire Stations during an ATEV trip back in 2000. Model is a converted DC Suburban, with extra script on the hood.
Well, I was vocal in lobbying for the superpumper, so that tops my list. But also on it are:
FDNY E-34 ALF
FDNY E-10
FDNY ladder 10
Princeton NJ Pierce Dash
Cedar Hill Texas Peirce Top Mount
Orlando Sutphen Ladder
I think in the past there was more emphasis on a realistic model of an honest to goodness real working engine, with the added bonus of a striking colour scheme - kind of thing you find in Fire Apparatus Journal. Hopefully that will become the core of the line up once again.
1. Super Pumper System ( although the Satellite deck guns could have been done better )
2. FDNY Ladder 10
3. West Havestraw Sutphen Pumper( love the blue color and accents around compartments )
4. Christmas White Mack CF
5. Philadelphia Diamond Plate