wave 5 of the mini blind bags was announced the other day, and does not include any DC engines, so im glad i got them, as it may have been a long wait otherwise.
a large parcel came in from the states this morning, containing the new DC minis! they were obtained with help from a friend, and it included 2 of the 9 packs and the 2 different 4 packs, plus the new DC themed collectors wheel. buying them this way meant i ended up with a few double ups, but they can be onsold, and it also means i dont have to buy the new ones in the future.
wave 5 of the mini blind bags was announced the other day, and does not include any DC engines, so im glad i got them, as it may have been a long wait otherwise. hoping everyone has a wonderful christmas and that santa brings lots!!
nice quiet day here. boss gave me tickets for the motorbike racing tomorrow, and then asked me to work a couple hours. i went in today instead so i wouldnt have to worry about it. now just chilling at home, tidying stuff and waiting for keegan and kylie so i can give the lad his present. the christmas show went well last week. i went straight to the club from work on thursday so i could finish set up and make sure everything was running well. just as well, too, as i had to do a minor rebuild on one end of the bridge, as nothing would climb it and engines would derail when coming the other way. i am not going to use the trackmaster tracks again. none of the slope joins would sit flat, no matter what i did, meaning things would get stuck or jump off the tracks. the layout as a whole went down well with the public. it was so nice to be inside for a change. sadly, a box moved when bringing everything home and the post office got demolished, so will need to rebuild that at some stage. Link spent the weekend with keegan, kylie and sandra. saturday, we went to wellington to do a spot of dog-sitting overnight. uneventful saturday for the most part. we saw 7 trains. we were up early sunday to head back to palmerston north and catch a steam train to feilding for their christmas parade. keegan had no idea what we had planned... i thought he would burst with excitement when he saw blair leaning out of the cab waving to him. we were very early to the train, which meant we had our pick of seats and could sit together since there was no allocated seating. on the way from feilding station to town, we stopped at a christmas display that had lots of marionettes, santa [who kept adjusting his beard] and two layouts. the feilding parade is very well done, quite long for a small town. lots of local businesses had floats, also the classic cars, big trucks and local harley owners group took part. many people dressed up, even a spiderman and two minions. we walked back to station and enjoyed the trip back to palmerston. then keegan and kylie got to ride it back to feilding again, while i chose to go with sandra. we chased it back and i got some decent photos. Link while i was away, my jauce shipment arrived. in it was a boxed james, in much better condition than mine. also 4 capsules containing scenery parts for the layout and the two points. i still have more stuff there, but was thinking about bidding on a percy, so got the more expensive bits sent in anticipation.
Link the korean sets i won on trademe arrived earlier in the week. im really, really happy with all of them. all of the engines have varying degrees of wear to the paint, but thats a minor. im just happy to have these amazing pieces.
along with the plarail sets, i also got trackmaster talking spencer. i have set up two new pages so far. if i add more korean items, there will be more pages as needed. boxed sets and engines |
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