You mean I have to buy the overpriced stinkwater just to get the car?

            Sears, like most other Ottawa area department stores and toy stores, doesn't seem to sell 1/43 scale model Ferraris anymore. The closest thing you can get to 1/43 scale Ferrari models at most mainstream stores these days are the medium-sized Ferrari "Assembly Line" screw together diecast kits from Maisto, but those are too large, usually between 1/36 and 1/39 scale, to fit in properly when I take photographs along with 1/43 scale cars.

But here's one exception that I spotted at the Sears in the Carlingwood shopping centre in western Ottawa: a somewhat detailed 1/43 scale Enzo (and I spotted a 1/43 scale 360 Modena the other week at the Rideau Centre Sears, but I didn't get a good shot of it). The thing is that you can only buy it in a gift set along with a, I think, 4.2 oz bottle of Ferrari Red Eau de Toilette for Men by Benetton.

I just don't see the need to spend so much money, some $75 to $80 Canadian on a small bottle of Eau de Toilette. I mean, I wash frequently and I think I smell okay. And, on those rare occasions that I want to add a scent to myself beyind the regular Gillette Series shaving gel, aftershave lotion gel, and underarm deodorant smells, I have AXE body spray, which comes in a much larger spray can and costs 1/10th of the amount of just a little Ferrari-branded Eau de Toilette.

Oh, how I wish I could be able to buy good-quality 1/43 scale Ferrari models the way that I could half a decade ago, when Mattel was still selling Ferrari models of that scale through mainstream retail outlets like Zellers, Wal-Mart, and Toys R' Us.

The postscript to this photo is that, later on the very same day that I took this photo, I bought a 1/24 scale Maisto "Assembly Line" Ferrari Enzo die-cast metal model kit from Wal-Mart for just a little over $10 Canadian.

Taken in: Canada / Québec / Aylmer (show map)

Taken on: August 25, 2006

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