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Offline Rasputin

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Watch out, I went shopping
« on: January 31, 2013, 17:47:44 »
So last night I needed to go to SanFransisco to pick someone  up at the airport. I decided to satisfy a little smiling faced voice in my head that keeps reminding me of recent deals found at TuedayMorning, a US discount shop, and how they have been clearanced. I have been a bit let down my this years TRU clearance selection and I can always use my cheep playmo fix. I checked on their web site any stores that would be on my route. I found 2 that were and planned plenty of time to make the stops. At the first store I found one truck, one flat car and the special. At store 2 I found 3 trucks and 2 train cars. Now the best part. The trucks were $24, the train cars $9 and the special was $1.20. The plane got delayed by 5 hours and I had to wait but I could care less as I knew I had a load of playmo in the back seat.

When this truck first got revealed to the public years ago I liked its design so much that I told myself that I had to have a bunch of them, well I think we have a bunch now, there is about 10 now. 

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Re: Watch out, I went shopping
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2013, 18:22:15 »
Wow, a whole lot of this specific truck you've collected then! You're about 2/3rd as mad about it as I am about a not-further-specified pirates' ship  ;D  Btw, did you wear a flower?

(I'm allways a bit more silly then usual around the time of the German toyfair)
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Offline tahra

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Re: Watch out, I went shopping
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2013, 19:27:31 »
Great bargains!

I really like that truck too.
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Re: Watch out, I went shopping
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2013, 19:47:42 »
Well worth the stops along the way!  The trucks and train cars are a nice addition to any collection, congrats.
Joe
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Re: Watch out, I went shopping
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2013, 20:23:05 »
The truck and trailer are what I regard as modern classic Playmobil; I've got one and don't intend to get rid of it ever.

Nice selection of rolling stock, too, although I must admit I increasingly prefer the original brown versions.
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Offline Tiermann

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Re: Watch out, I went shopping
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2013, 00:05:06 »
Great buys!
I gave up after checking in the one easily reached shop in my way to Seattle. I ended up buying 3 of the hoppers and 2 flatcars off Amazon at ok prices. Still less than half a full price car.

couple of interesting points for those that may not have handled them. The hopper car is a plain flatcar in dark grey, and the blue sections clip on top of it then the yellow bins drop in. So you can have a car with one bin in the middle, or one on an end and half a flat car, or leave them off and you have a simple flatcar. I like the versatility of that. The regular flatcar the yellow sides actually are clipped onto the side of the flatcar floor using the little black hinge clips like in Steck doors. So the sides can be removed and again you have a plain flatcar for other uses, that one in light grey. With the yellow sides up you can fit 3 but not 4 of the large barrel on it's pallet, and it's a little loose with 3. I'm sure if there is an interesting way to get a bunch of those on a flatcar Rasputin will figure it out.  ;D
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Offline hauden_lukas

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Re: Watch out, I went shopping
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2013, 05:09:00 »
I see two victorian sets in the lower left corner...there must be more, or?
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Re: Watch out, I went shopping
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2013, 06:28:46 »
Great buy!

I just picked up this guy at T.M. today.
http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=4642
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Offline Georgeag1972

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Re: Watch out, I went shopping
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2013, 10:56:45 »
Great buys, well done Ras.

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Re: Watch out, I went shopping
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2013, 13:44:08 »
Looks like you purchased a truckload full of trucks.  :lol:
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