i also removed s tomy push n go lowly worm from muims collection, something she had rescused from a previous kids toybox clean out, and just as well she did, too!
the nighttime victor arrived from trademe, filling a 2 year old gap in the checklist.
john and i went to palmerston north last week, and i got the suoer cruiser set from toyworld. at $120 it is too expensive, but i will replace the engines with ones just as good, and onsell it to hopefully recoup some of the costs.
i also removed s tomy push n go lowly worm from muims collection, something she had rescused from a previous kids toybox clean out, and just as well she did, too! the nighttime victor arrived from trademe, filling a 2 year old gap in the checklist. the beach 30pk I ordered from amazon arrived today, 8 days earlier than expected. out of the 30, I added 8 to my collection, some which I have been missing since 2017, so that's good to be able to check some off finally.
all in all, quite a good lot. slowly buy surely checking things off and getting caught up again. john and I have decided to start selling at local weekend markets, bolstered by the success we had at the model railway show. john added to his minis display stand, making it free-standing, and it works great for getting the little guys sold [his collection and doubles] so far, we have taken part in another 2, with moderate success, though we are stuffing ourselves by spending part of the flkoat before we even sell anything, both of us unable to resist the lure of bargains and things for our collections. the most recent was yesterday at kids market. we sold a few unwanted items, and replaced that with stuff we did want. I got an earlier trackmaster set, complete, for $3, a tomy Terence from a bag of cars john wanted, two takara batman blind boxes, a dragon from the dreamworks movies and 4 lots of lego. not bad, all things considered. prior to kids market, we visited a couple of garage sales, where again we bought a few items we likely dont need, but oh well. I couldn't resist the lovely old bear, especially for $1, and the Japanese snoopy stuff I was happy to grab for the same price. the big loader that kyle collected for me arrived this morning, so that was good. nice to have another piece for the collection. I also bought some Christmas lego from him.
I caved in today and ordered the "beach" 30pk from amazon. from the set, it looks like I gain about 8 new minis, and the rest will be sold. I have decided to order a set or two each week and actively catch up instead of waiting for things to happen.
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