thomas and friends mini series

sunhuntin · 2015-02-21T17:57:55+00:00

USE DREWBENN'S AWESOME CHECKLIST TO KEEP TRACK OF YOUR COLLECTION: https://mini.ixbyix.com/ [2019 update - drew is no longer able to carry on updating. thank...

HiMyNameIsNick

Pablo392 wrote
Hmmm.. Do you need anything from the States that we can trade with 4 DC packs? I don't know how much the shipping would be as that seems to drive cost up pretty quick.

On another note, I am in North Carolina, neither Target nor Walmart has anything new around here, but I saw a big blind box for the first time, with no top, would make it easy to fish out specific # bags. Target had 2017/1, Walmart has 2016/3. Strangely no 2016/4.

PS: Does anyone know where I can find some Trackmaster tracks for cheap?

It is not that box, It is very long and thin and it's hanging on an endcap.

Also 4 Pack Power Rangers only 50cents.

mikedaws

Has there been any news on MINIS at the New York Toy fair?

Pablo392

HiMyNameIsNick wrote
It is not that box, It is very long and thin and it's hanging on an endcap.

Also 4 Pack Power Rangers only 50cents.

Hmm, I thought I saw one that was hanging on the wall though, it was long, wide but shallow.

2018 7 Pack #1 is at Walmart now.

Orangepill

Seems like the Walmarts have some of the older 2015 blind bags but the brand new multi packs.... The Targets seem to get the new blind bags but seem behind on the multi packs. I was at a Target in Southern CA and they had some late 2015 DC 4packs and they were actually weighted!

Pablo392

Does anyone know if the keychain minis are identical to the original releases? I am asking because I plan to order 4 of those and if they are identical engine releases, I will just keep the tracks connected to each other with one of my duplicates on them.

sunhuntin

we went to the next town yesterday, and called into one shop that has a pitiful amount of thomas on the shelf. a couple launchers, couple trackmaster and a few adventures.
went to the checkouts and saw 3 minis boxes, one box being from this year! all excited, i grabbed the bags and started sorting numbers. got to the end, looked at the bags again and realised i had 2017/2. i honestly could have cried.

all i can say is thank goodness they changed the box/bag design, otherwise i wouldnt have realised until it was too late.

mikedaws

Pablo392 wrote
Does anyone know if the keychain minis are identical to the original releases? I am asking because I plan to order 4 of those and if they are identical engine releases, I will just keep the tracks connected to each other with one of my duplicates on them.

They are identical. There aren’t any weights in them either.

Pablo392

mikedaws wrote
They are identical. There aren’t any weights in them either.

Thanks Mike, are these available in Canada, I have never seen them in any stores in the US. WM website has it, so I am about to order 5 so I can make a complete circle with random trains on them.

mikedaws

Pablo392 wrote
Thanks Mike, are these available in Canada, I have never seen them in any stores in the US. WM website has it, so I am about to order 5 so I can make a complete circle with random trains on them.

I’ve seen them in both Canada and the US. Toysrus in Canada had them, but very minimal stock. I saw them at Target in the US around Christmas time in their seasonal section. I picked all 4 of them up when I saw them. Even though they are repeats, I thought they looked pretty cool. Glad I picked them up for my collection.

jdogman

I feel your pain sunhuntin. Last month I saw 2018/1 in a supermarket which is the only place I've found them, and when I went back another time to get them, it was a mess. The couple of boxes had been gone through by someone, and there were all these ripped open bags everywhere and stray engines around them. I attempted to salvage it, but practically every bag was open and I gave up.

mikedaws wrote
Has there been any news on MINIS at the New York Toy fair?

Nothing this year I'm afraid. Only new TrackMaster items and a large amount of Wood was being displayed alongside the Super Station. That won't stop us from seeing other products this year though.

mikedaws

If anyone needs them. Here are the codes for 2018 wave 2

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drewbenn

Has anyone heard if the Tootsie minis are showing up in 2018 blind bags outside of North America?

sunhuntin

they never have before, and i will be surprised, but pleased, if they start now. checked the shop i struck out at over the weekend, and they had next to no minis left, so will try again this weekend and hope they have restocked with 2018 ones.

Pablo392

drewbenn wrote
Has anyone heard if the Tootsie minis are showing up in 2018 blind bags outside of North America?

Thanks Drew for updating the checklist with 18/2. :cool:
Even after 18/2 is posted, I am surprised at the number of remaining Unnumbered 2018.

Also has anyone else noticed, number of new engines are going down with each release. 2017 Wave 3 had 12 new engines, then 11, 10, and now 2018/2 is 9.

drewbenn

Pablo392 wrote
Even after 18/2 is posted, I am surprised at the number of remaining Unnumbered 2018.

Who, while I was adding the new wave, I didn't even notice it didn't include any of the unnumbered engines! Thanks for pointing that out.

Pablo392 wrote
Also has anyone else noticed, number of new engines are going down with each release. 2017 Wave 3 had 12 new engines, then 11, 10, and now 2018/2 is 9.

2016 doesn't seem to have been planned out well, but if you don't count what I consider "specials" like DC, Tootsie and Steelworks engines, and if there are really about 21 engines left to come this year (unnumbered + rumored - a couple of vans/trucks like last year) I think 2016-2018 are all looking about the same:

year  w1  w2  w3  w4 total average
2015  18  19  19  19   75   18.75
2016  11  12   9   7   39    9.75
2017  10   9  10  10   39    9.75
2018  10   9           19    9.5

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Pablo392

You are right drewbenn, I was counting anything that wasn't in italics which included tootsies.

Did anyone catch the little disclaimer on Boost and Blast Set, it says some engines may not work on this set, so I am guessing it was designed for non-weighted engines. I got it but I didn't open it yet. I have a box sitting in my office with some of the other sets, I donated some last year, waiting for this year to donate them.

drewbenn

Pablo392 wrote
You are right drewbenn, I was counting anything that wasn't in italics which included tootsies.

Did anyone catch the little disclaimer on Boost and Blast Set, it says some engines may not work on this set, so I am guessing it was designed for non-weighted engines. I got it but I didn't open it yet. I have a box sitting in my office with some of the other sets, I donated some last year, waiting for this year to donate them.

Well it's just a different way of looking at the data 🙂 Certainly not the only!

I know on our Twist-n-Turn, the diesels and some of the larger, blockier steamies tend to get stuck on their way up. I haven't played with the Boost and Blast yet, but when I saw that I just assumed the warning was more about the engine sizes than the weights, especially since the Boost and Blast was released after the non-weighted engines came out: otherwise a lot of new-to-minis kids are going to be pretty upset when none of their engines work with it!

Orangepill

There are so many errors on the collectors sheets that it is hard to tell what Fisher Price is doing!
2018/1 (US) only had 10 true new releases. But the collectors sheet indicates 12 new releases.
2018/ US has only 9 true new releases but the collectors sheet indicates 13 new releases. So again it could be a pattern- but its hard to believe they can’t have someone who knows the MINIS Line at least proof the collectors sheet?

Ksthomas209

Engines like skarloey seem to get stuck. Their funnels are too tall. Also the weighted engines dont seem to "blast" off that well. Too heavy I think

Pablo392

Interesting. They labeled Diesel as Porter, and put a sticker over it as quick fix.

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