on the way up, we stopped at rotorua and went to the farmers store there. i found something unusual... rusty. he had been mispacked into bash's box. not something ive found before, but this time i found two the same. i left the second as each end had been sliced through by a craft knife when the shelf filler cut the display box open. as a result, i have made a new page for errors. it is here
while in rotorua, we went to the toyworld store. i picked up a 1:87 HO scale hotwheels car and, shockingly, the lego winter village post office. cant wait to start building this and glad to have it for the thomas christmas layout for this years show.
in tauranga, we visited bay hobbies. i bought a pile of stuff from them at the palmerston rail x show a few months back, so it was nice to visit their store. there was a model show in hamilton this weekend, so they didnt have a large amount of stock, but i did pick up a santa fe auto loader and some more scale cars to go in it. there were two N scale canadian rolling stock cars there as well, so i grabbed them.
i also scored a heap of thomas and tomy from the two zero to five stores. photos of that will have to wait until tomorrow. from various op shops, i got some thomas puzzles and a book, which will be used in my scrapbooks. at a buck store, i found a thomas pencil case which had a book of stickers in. its all genuine, which is good. got that for $2.50.