New challenge incoming A year ago, a new Chinese die-cast brand by the name of Trends Hobby showed up for pre- purchase all around the world. At first, we did not pay much attention to the announcement. After all, new “pop-up” brands appear like mushrooms after the rain, trying to take a share of the ever-growing 1:64 scale die-cast market. But then we looked closer, and saw not only great promise in attention to detail but also mentions of multiple official licenses and exclusives, all for a price that sounded a bit too good to be true. Still, we received some models and waited to see for ourselves. We are…