PETITION MINICHAMPS TO MAKE BAUTISTA DIECAST MODELS


I'd like to ask as many of you as possible to spare a few minutes to write an email to Minichamps (a German company called Pauls Model Art) to petition them to produce Alvaro's Aspar Aprilia 125cc Championship Winning bike from 2006. And possibly more Bati bikes from 2007 and 2008 too...


This is the email address:
info@minichamps.de

I have written to them asking if they would consider making Alvaro's 2006 Championship-winning Aprilia 125. My reasoning to them is that he is not only already hugely popular in Spain, but also gaining popularity quickly around the world and that he is without doubt going to be one of the sport's superstars, and that it would make sense to pick up on that and to start producing models of his rides.
I also asked them to consider doing his 2007 Aprilia 250, and perhaps more importantly this year's Aprilia 250 - as vice champion.

Anyway - please drop them a line, as much in your own words as possible as it doesn't want to appear to be some automated spamming!
But I'd certainly appreciate you helping me push them on this, and if you can encourage as many friends / MotoGP fans as possible to mail them too, that would be excellent.

(*If you think it would help you in writing your email to see the full text of the email I sent them, just PM me. Please just make sure you avoid actual *copying*!)

Cheers
gb


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UPDATE

Some other contacts to try...

IXO
Trade inquiries: sales@ixomodels.com
Customer Service: cs@ixomodels.com

ALTAYA
They have a suggestion page here:
http://www.altaya.es/sugerencias.php
And here is the page translated into English - put in 11111 in the postcode slot.
Also try emailing info@altaya.es

MAISTO
Contact page here:
http://www.maisto.com/contact.asp


By the way if you want to support your emails with an illustration, why not attach this graphic or better still the PDF version which has a message on it (download here) to illustrate our suggestion....

Definitely going to do that. When it's a German company I could actually write them in German, couldn't I? Visited their site yesterday, but it was hard to even find a proper list of which models they already produced.

Also, we could mention that his fanclub is the biggest after Valentino Rossi and that we already have visitors from 120 countries, so that should give them something to calculate.
It would also be cool to have our members from various countries write them, so that they can see for themselves how far to the world they could reach with some more Alvaro models.

Btw: Is the 2005 model actually from Minichamps or was it produced by a different company? I think my package said IXO or something, but I'm not entirely sure. Was it an official Minichamps model?

The 2005 model is part of the IXO Junior range.
(Most of those other 1/24 ones are by Altaya).
Yeah, the Minichamps site isn't really easy to root around is it...

But a big yes to those other points - also I've asked Michaela if she can maybe have a look at the translation of our petition messge so we can also share it with the fanclub and some of the Bati / Aspar pages on Facebook etc...?

Sounds like a very good idea to me. The more, the merrier.
Just sent them my Email in German and I tried to sound very professional and considerate, even though I would have liked to just scream at them with capitalisation and coerce them to produce a diecast for every year including 2002 and the CEV and the Movistar Honda Cup...

sounds reasonable to me...

for info - i have posted the message (in english) at the following...

facebook - alvaro bautista page
facebook - superbati group
facebook - bati- cutest guy on 2 wheels group
facebook - mapfre aspar team page

Alright, I see a lot of messages in my inox.

Have also now posted a topic on the (Grand Prix Legends) Leighs Diecast Forum.
Hopefully a whole different set of people will see it there.

I will also shamelessly copy your message and plug it on my Blogs. The more people see it, the better.

totally agree - i'll also add it to the batifan blog (and aspar if you like...?)

Definitely.
Would have done it already, but you can go ahead and do it if you like.

Awesomeness!!! Will go and write up an email in a sec! The more we get in on the idea, the more chances we get of more Bati bikes!!! :D

I cant promise I'll get that translation tonight. This is something that I'll have to rely on my dictionary on for the best part I guess as Im not familiar with the possible translations concerning models,diecasts etc. But I'll try my best and send it you asap G.

I wouldn't start a whole collection I guess but would certainly want to have the Bati ones.

no hurry - the fact you'll consider doing it is a great thing anyway

Your endless trust in my Spanish-speaking abilities makes me laugh... Are you sure that last time it wasn't the alcohol that made you think my spanish's amazing? :lol: