on ebay, i also bought 2 8 packs to obtain others i didnt have yet, including metallic gordon. there are also 4 packs which contain more different ones, but also a number of duplicates. even buying the 8 packs, i have 4 duplicates out of the 16.
the silver fern railcar came to town today from new plymouth. i went down late afternoon to get some pics, as its something i hadnt seen before. not as fancy as thought it would be, but certainly unique. in minis news, i have done some more buying of this range. another collector alerted me to the playwheel which comes with the gold thomas. i bought 2 to safely transport the metallics and other favourites.
on ebay, i also bought 2 8 packs to obtain others i didnt have yet, including metallic gordon. there are also 4 packs which contain more different ones, but also a number of duplicates. even buying the 8 packs, i have 4 duplicates out of the 16. mum and i went to palmerston today, after i found out toyworld had the new thomas mini collectables range.
we hit the op shops etc first, finding a few good things but not much on the whole. i picked up the trackmaster hazardous tracks set from the warehouse, the breakaway bridge and 18 different minis from toyworld and the sodor spiral from farmers. at JB hifi, mum found the legend of korra book 3, which was a surprise. they didnt have book 2, but they did have a number of different studio ghibli "art of" books. i must have spent close to $400 on those alone! a really good, but expensive!, day out. the minis are just adorable and worth having, though ive got no clue what to do with them now. well, my first long stint at work went fairly well. i am worn out though, and was making silly little mistakes yesterday. nothing major, just forgetting to write down what size pipe and things like that.
told garth i would either have today or monday off. he cleared today off with our supervisor, who took it to the big boss who came back with today and monday, a 4 day weekend. this is what will happen each weekend after garth is off. mum and i did the rounds today. found some good stuff. no real treasures, but some goodies. first we hit hospice where i got the large wall train, half penny keyring, stitch and canadian pacific hotel soap. another op shop had the little blue shinkansen bag and camper van for the christmas layout. finally, savemart had the rail book, trackmaster station and the two dvds. we are going to palmerston tomorrow, as toyworld has the thomas blind bag range, so will see what i get. when i said the other day there likely wouldnt be much in the way of updates over the next few weeks, i expected that to be by my choice. instead, for some unknown reason, my button to update the site disappeared and it was taken offline at the same time. i have been in touch with weebly over the last 2-3 days, and finally got it back overnight. luckily, whatever happened didnt also delete everything at the same time.
sorry for being gone, and believe me i missed it as well! weird not having this place to update. hopefully thats the only glitch! the $20 plarail steam engine from trademe arrived on thursday. seems to run well, though it had a prominant hitch when it arrived. no obvious problems other than a missing screw and both screw hole threads being stripped. simply replaced with bigger screws and that seems to have sorted the issue.
pleased to have this in the fleet, a very handsome engine. got this little bundle of hypercity from another collector, geri. pleased to have more plakids and some different stuff to go along with them.
geri runs a sister to this site, which can be found here: http://myplaraildepot.weebly.com/ won this on trademe for $20. dont know much about it, just glad to have another steamer for the fleet. will hopefully update with more info when it arrives.
there likely wont be any big updates for the next little while. same goes for replies to emails. i will try and get to them, but no promises.
the way work is set up, the permanent staff work 17 days on, 4 days off. this coming weekend is garth's 4 days off, which means i will be working in his place. he is back tuesday, but at this stage, im anticipating working until the following weekend, so roughly the 21st feb. still loving the job, though the hours are starting to make themselves known. crashed at about 7 friday night, was actually falling asleep at the computer. slept until 8 the next morning, lol. am watching a plarail steam engine on trademe, so if i get that will do a quick note at some point. |
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