today, i finally found one of the new engines... iron bert! at $30NZD for the engine and carriage [no track included, the stingy buggers] and $25 for just the engine [again no track] they are hugely expensive.
i got the only iron bert and have noticed the typically wonderful mattel quality control already... a decent size paint blemish on the side. so long as they dont muck it up like they did with cars, its all good.
they had a few different engines, which im assuming was the first case assortment. shockingly, no thomas! why they would leave out the one engine that every new thomas fan wants, i dont know.