suns buys over the last few weeks.

sunhuntin

i was trying to wait for one more item to come in, but too impatient! murpheys law it will show up tomorrow. lol.

ive already posted about flip face toby, but i found his coppermine a few days after he arrived, so now the set is complete.

i got this blast to my childhood from a collector in the uk

these 4 i got for $15 each from a local seller. they all need work on the motors, some couplers are bent and at least one is missing tyres. 2 of the engines also had their bodies swapped, so the wheels were wrong.
can someone please confirm their names? thanks!!

series 100 bullet train

series 205, out of print [thanks to geris for the correct name!!]

and this one TX

and an older, slightly battered, NEX

Nigels

Some cool stuff there Sun, nice to see others picking up bits and pieces like I do lol!

Ucwepn

Fantastic scores!

ActionChugger

i want to see a group picture of your entire collection 😃

sunhuntin

thanks, guys. the one piece i was waiting for still hasnt arrived, but the hideously bright shirt i bought for work made it. fluoro pink and yellow with reflective strips. lmfao

spent yesterday evening sorting out the plarail bits. replacing tyres, couplers and lubing the motors. all were pretty dry and 2 of them wouldnt have lasted much longer i think. the worst was the blue and silver followed by the series 100. the nex i touched up the black with a marker. looks much better now.

action, the easiest way is to give you the link to my site. http://sunsthomasandfriends.weebly.com/

Super

Another great haul for you Sunhuntin. Could this be the TX train you have there? http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10115914 Gerisplarail1 would know all of the names, history and if there were different releases of every Tomy train for sure.

sunhuntin

good spot, super.

the piece i was waiting for finally showed up the other day. must have been on the slow boat!!
last night, i stopped in at a store on the way home from work and found crash n repair salty. only 2 on the peg, so i grabbed them both, one to leave sealed. not sure how many of these are out there, so figured it would be an idea to keep one aside.

yep, thats HIT lost and found hiro! and yes, thats my cat pushing her way in. soon as im on the floor to take photos, she comes to annoy me. hiro is missing his sodor steamworks sign, and the stickers arent as mint as i would like, but happy none the less!

MuddyPoppins

Awesome!! Congrats!!
L&F Hiro is Hits masterpiece...a really GREAT train🙂
...very shrewd grabbing both Salty's too.
I dont think they made too many and also limited their distribution, so that'll be a rare one in no time!! 😃

Super

Nigels

Hehe, a collector who thinks like me, get two, stash one and open the other 🙂

sunhuntin

well, my plan on having a mint one sealed didnt pan out. left them on the floor and stepped on the best one, popping the glue on the blister. so the hunt begins for a replacement.

got this off a local auction site last week. its thomas from the abandoned mine set. i got the whole set for about $100, not bad as the prices on ebay seem to be rising,

Nigels

Even in the short time I've been interested in the Tomy ranges I've noticed an upward trend in prices for the Tomy product even for 2nd hand items. Whereas the newer Trackmaster 2 product just doesn't seem to sell on eBay. I wonder what this is telling us about the state of the market?

leylandvictory2

or perhaps the trackmaster 2 products are extremely easy to get within your communities.

Nigels

No, not really, in terms of outlets its very difficult to even get Trackmaster 2, the only viable source seems to be Amazon or eBay. Argos has a very limited range, "The Entertainer" chain stocks a limited amount. But so far that's about it, even when I checked in Toys 'r' Us I couldn't find any.

What I was trying to get at is in the eyes of the public they seem to want the tomy product (even if 2nd hand) more than Trackmaster 2, in other words they want locomotives that work on the track they already have rather than either having to replace the track (if you can find the new stuff) or having to modify the locomotives. Which lets face it apart from us on here the majority won't modify rolling stock. Call it stupidity, but they expect the new stuff to work (on any track) out of the box 🙂