Terrific non-TV Toys: Queen diecast collector car

There is an object lesson in the life of Freddie Mercury. Probably more than one. He lived life big. He didn’t make apologies for it. And he had the ability to not give a $&#@)* what people thought of him. By some accounts, that ability was not innate. He had to learn it, had to teach it to himself, actually, in response to being a foreigner in England as a teen, one author wrote. But it is a rare and marvelous quality indeed, especially in this Facebook age we live in.

With the recent release of the movie on Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” we turn our attention to a piece of Queen merchandise for the latest installment of Terrific non-TV Toys. This collector car is part of a set released by Racing Champions a couple decades ago. In honor of Freddie, along with bandmates Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, it comes out of the box for the very first time by a lifelong Queen fan ...