{"id":3050,"date":"2026-04-28T09:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:53:40","slug":"these-old-fujimi-mad-police-post-apocalyptic-model-car-kits-are-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/these-old-fujimi-mad-police-post-apocalyptic-model-car-kits-are-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"These old Fujimi &#8220;Mad Police&#8221; post-apocalyptic model car kits are cool."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These model kits by Fujimi which came out in 1982 are obviously inspired by the Mad Max 2 movie. They now fetch high prices and it&#8217;s easy to see why. 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These kits came with figures too! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These model kits by Fujimi which came out in 1982 are obviously inspired by the Mad Max 2 movie. They now fetch high prices and it&#8217;s easy to see why. Police cars modified with rocket launchers and Vulcan guns are neat. This is apparently a scan from a magazine or promo flyer. These kits came &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/these-old-fujimi-mad-police-post-apocalyptic-model-car-kits-are-cool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;These old Fujimi &#8220;Mad Police&#8221; post-apocalyptic model car kits are cool.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[382,381],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modeling","tag-fujimi","tag-mad-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}