Greenlight Collectible's 1/24 Scale 1975 Dodge Monaco Hazzard County Sheriff Car

Greenlight is still at it.  I think these first few cars are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Greenlight's Hazzardous Collection.  The next offering in the collection is this Hazzard County Sheriff 1975 Dodge Monaco.  It's been a long time since we've had something new in the 1/24 or 1/25 scale Hazzard County.

Throughout filming the show, and especially in the first season, Warner Bros. used several different police car makes and models.  While they were mostly Dodge Monacos and Plymouth Furys, there were a few different years dressed in the Hazzard County Sheriff uniform.  It seems Greenlight is going to give us each different year and model.

The box design resembles the previous two Greenlight Hazzard police cars released.  I made the joke twice that it looks more like "Gone with the Wind" rather than Dukes of Hazzard.  I guess I made it three times now.

Again, there is no mention of Warner Bros. on the box.  This is not a licensed item.

I included the empty box in this picture to get a better look at the interior rear of the box.  Let's discuss the elephant in the room.

I'm not talking about the elephant that Bandit transported in the sequel to the hugely popular Smokey and the Bandit movie.  I'm talking about the Smokey and the Bandit logo adorning the inside of this (non-licensed) Dukes of Hazzard car.  WHAT??!?  Greenlight, what are you doing?  I'm pretty sure Smokey never chased Bandit through Hazzard County.  Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane never met Sheriff Buford T. Justice.  And we all know it wasn't until the 2005 Dukes of Hazzard movie that Bo and Luke met Burt Reynolds.  Someone at Greenlight Collectibles made a huge mistake attaching this logo to a Hazzard County car.  Odd that when I was looking for copyright material from Warner Bros. I didn't see any thing from Universal Pictures either.  Universal owns the licensing for Smokey and the Bandit.  Let's not make that mistake again Greenlight.

The car itself is another beauty.  Being smaller than the 1/18, you don't lose much in detail.  The light bar is permanently affixed to the the car, unlike Greenlight's recent 1/18 Rosco Car, and I like it better.

The Hazzard County Sheriff Department's logo is spot on.  This is definitely not Montague County or Portague County from Bandit.

Though it's not the 1977 and 1978 Monaco I most associate with Rosco, Enos, and Cletus, it was used on the show and looks like it's straight outta Hazzard.

Both front doors open and the dash and interior have some detail.  I'm very happy the light bar doesn't come off.

There are only two other diecast cars from Hazzard in 1/24 (of 1/25).  The General Lee, of course, and Daisy's Dixie Jeep.  The General Lee has been released in the scale countless times, but Dixie was only released once, in 1981, and is pretty hard to track down.

1/24 Bo and Luke have been driving in circles for thirty-eight years waiting for 1/24 Rosco to finally start chasing them.  Well boys, Rosco is in hot pursuit!  Buckle up for safety 1/24 scale Flash!  I love it, I love it!!!

This is the newest 1/25 General Lee that Johnny Lightning released, but it is the same casting as the original Ert release from the Golden Era.  JL just corrected the interior color.  The 1/25 is a tiny bit smaller than the 1/24, but you barely notice.

I pulled out a few variations of the 1/25 General Lee.  Here we have two from Ertl, one from Joyride, and one from Johnny Lightning.  They are all the same car with tiny differences.  I also have the Dixie boxed from 1981 and the new Greenlight 1/24 Monaco.  Another General Lee that this new Greenlight Rosco could chase around Hazzard County is the 1/24 scale Danbury Mint General Lee.  I haven't had that bad boy out in a while.

This is the third Greenlight Rosco car to come out this year, in the third different scale.  Greenlight isn't messing around.  It seems they've landed on a box theme, with the 1/18 being the exception because it was first.

I also grabbed a special edition "Green Machine" version of the 1/24 1975 Dodge Monaco.  I am new to Greenlight's cars, but it seems to me that the Green Machine series is similar to Johnny Lightning's White Lightning variants.  From what I am reading online, anywhere from 2% to 10% of the production number comes in this green wheeled variation.

All four wheels have "Greenlight-Green" metalic paint instead of the usual chrome.  I don't know specifically how many of the chase versions are out there, but this one didn't cost that much more than the regular version.  Everything else on the car and box, including the incorrect Smokey and the Bandit logo, are the same as the regular version.  To my knowledge this is the first car in Greenlight's Hazzardous collection to have a Green Machine variation.

So far we've got the 1/18 1977 Plymouth Fury, the 1973 Ford F-100, and the 1/43 1977 Plymouth Fury as well as this new 1/24 1975 Dodge Monaco.  Greenlight isn't taking their foot off the pedal in Hazzard County.  There are quite a few new cars coming soon.  I just wish they were licensed by Warner Bros.  Wouldn't we love to see what Greenlight could do with the General Lee?