Dear collectables market....... WHY YOU DO THIS?!?!?!?!?
This here in the kind of random shit that drives me up the wall when I'm trying to recreate something as accurately as possible to real life. I found a 1/24 diecast of this car for super cheap on Ebay so I bought it with the intent of scanning the box art to make assets for use on a Nr2k3 car and a printed decal sheet. So I was working on the mini-wheats character off of the box last night and kept thinking to myself that he looked a little weird..... and then when I actually stopped to compare him to the character on the real car it's...... THE REVERSE SIDE?!?!?!
As in - the early 2000s campaign for Frosted Mini-Wheats involved 'Sweet Side' and 'Wheat Side', literally just 2 sides of the same CGI character in the commercial playing off of each other for laughs. The actual car raced in 2001 clearly has 'Sweet Side' on both the left and right of the car - he is covered in frosting except for a tiny little corner. WHILE ALL OF THE PROMO / COLLECTABLE ITEMS show 'Wheat Side' with only a splash of frosting showing on his side....... why? Just..... why?
*goes and cries in a corner but not really...... but maybe really*