During Brian Berke's recent sojourn in Italy, he bought this pair of larger scale items, as rather brilliant toy-related mementos of their visit, and nothing more iconic than a Vespa moped . . . with added babalicious babe from Babalonia!*
"The two wheeler riders in Naples and surrounding area are positively demented.
This may be part of the universal road rage post Covid lockdown, though I suspect they were this way before.
The
roads are narrow, which does not deter 2 wheelers from passing cars
both into oncoming traffic and curbside at the same time. They go down
pedestrian only streets. There are the equivalent of Zebra crossings.
The custom is walk across and ignore traffic? Do not make eye contact.
It was quite unnerving. Two wheelers don't stop they weave around you as
you cross.
So I had to
purchase this as it represents the most notable memory of the trip. The
scale is larger than I would like but I wanted to buy it in Italy rather
than later. The figure was the only one I could find, bought in the US
which surprisingly it pretty accurate in terms of rider dress code near
the beach!
It has gone on display temporally while the trip is fresh in the memory."
As part of an eclectic display of odds and ends!
Brian shot an actual one in situ!
Many thanks to Brian for these, it's nice to have something a little left-field, and with a first for American Diorama (poured PU resin), it also adds to the underused Maisto (doe-cast) Tag . . . and, it's a babe in a bikini!
* I think I nicked that from Bill & Ted!
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