Shite in Miniature II

[Tenmil Socket]

Didn’t know Hot Wheels did a Mini van?

Worth buying?

[Remspoor]

4 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

I’ve just spent the last few days in Amsterdam paying up to 11.5€ for 500ml of beer 😳 *and I like a beer or two, plus it was my birthday!

I am watching a Dutch series called Bij ons op de Wallen. It is about the people who live and work in the Wallen, a neighbourhood of Amsterdam. One part showed a group of British blokes in a bar being entertained* by mistress Kylie. I hope your mates did not give you the same present. It looked painful. 🫣

[bunglebus]

4 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

It's a Tiny Mighty Mo from the 1970s

I've got this Mighty Mo 

 

[sierraman]

As I suspected I had got one…

[Tenmil Socket]

8 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

I am watching a Dutch series called Bij ons op de Wallen. It is about the people who live and work in the Wallen, a neighbourhood of Amsterdam. One part showed a group of British blokes in a bar being entertained* by mistress Kylie. I hope your mates did not give you the same present. It looked painful. 🫣

I went with the Mrs.

[Remspoor]

6 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

I went with the Mrs.

Thankfully, If I had mates like that they would not be mates when I got back home.

The series its self is interesting. I have only been to Amsterdam for tow visits. One was a quick walk around. The second was canal boat tour because it was my brother-in-laws  50th birthday. That is a special birthday for the Dutch.

[sierraman]

The red light district is an eye opener. I thought they’d all be old hags but most of them looked like supermodels. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

37 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Didn’t know Hot Wheels did a Mini van?

Worth buying?

I have some hiding in the spare room. I might dig them out tommorrow.

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Didn’t know Hot Wheels did a Mini van?

Worth buying?

They release one now and again, this Disney one is the newest I think

Or that multipack release ^

[morrisoxide]

Set out this morning to get a Fiesta but came back with these two.

I got them from the Entertainer in the local shopping center. It was rammed to the brim with hipsters seeking out artizan coffee and paint your own pottery figurines, I did well avoiding for the most part.

Then the handbrake on the daily Panda 169 was only working on one side. So after I had adjusted the shoes I had to test drive it to Tescos and found a Fiesta, well two actually!

[bunglebus]

That rampside is on my hit list for sure!

[bunglebus]

I'll leave the ready to decide if this Facebook post is legit, but the pictures are... overwhelming 

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19gosVraUm/

[eddyramrod]

I've just been reading about that.  The group it's been posted to seems to think it's probably a scam of some sort, not helped by at least two spammers cluttering up the resultant thread.  It could be; but it could also be genuine.  Most of us here on this thread have huge collections, and when we're gone, what will happen to it all?  MrsR tells me with the inevitability of the Radio 2 pips that she will just skip the lot, regardless of me leaving them to the Motor Museum, and I'm sure she's not the only collector's wife who thinks that way.  I'll just have to outlive her...

If it is genuine, then this bloke has picked up a right bargain.

[bunglebus]

A few weeks ago, I was instructed to pick up an Amazon package from work - tomorrow I get to start opening it

 

[Split_Pin]

47 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

just skip the lot, regardless of me leaving them to the Motor Museum

I'd happily save Mrs R the bother and take them to the museum myself, should the worst ever (hopefully not)  happen.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

10 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

GET IN!!!!

😁

Where did you source it from?

[bunglebus]

Pinch and a punch, first of the month. That means it's time to crack open door one of the advent calendar 

[bunglebus]

Going to try and stick some more bits on my sales thread at 6pm tonight....

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Going to try and stick some more bits on my sales thread at 6pm tonight....

I’ll be semi pissed by then. 

[junkyarddog]

12 hours ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Where did you source it from?

Dealz,our version of Poundland.

[bunglebus]

18 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I’ll be semi pissed by then. 

Excellent, your guard will be down *rubs hands* 🙏🏻

[Datsuncog]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Going to try and stick some more bits on my sales thread at 6pm tonight....

Great opportunity for me to get all my Christmas shopping done; hope my dear old aunt likes Corgi Juniors...

[bunglebus]

21 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Great opportunity for me to get all my Christmas shopping done; hope my dear old aunt likes Corgi Juniors...

Matchbox tonight, haven't sorted all the Juniors yet!

[bunglebus]

More stuff sold back to the guy I bought them from, he must not have known what was in all the storage boxes as we didn't really go through them. At this rate he'll have refunded me and paid the £90 ULEZ fine I got for picking them up!

[Tenmil Socket]

On 30/11/2024 at 13:44, junkyarddog said:

GET IN!!!!

😁

Went hunting for one earlier to no avail ☹️

If anyone has a spare please let me know 👍🏻

[Tenmil Socket]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

More stuff sold back to the guy I bought them from, he must not have known what was in all the storage boxes as we didn't really go through them. At this rate he'll have refunded me and paid the £90 ULEZ fine I got for picking them up!

Is there a back story to why he sold it all?

[Remspoor]

23 hours ago, sierraman said:

The red light district is an eye opener. I thought they’d all be old hags but most of them looked like supermodels. 

That is where the programme I am watching is Bij ons op de Wallen. De Wallen is the RLD.  There are families that live there too. Some of the sex workers are  trans. Just make sure you ask before you try😉

[bunglebus]

44 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Is there a back story to why he sold it all?

I don't think things were going well for him, not long out of hospital, partner had left and he was renting a room in a HMO, just him and the dog. Bit sad really

[FakeConcern]

Toy fair stuff from this morning, please complain if you're fed up with me posting these with prices as a waste of space and I'll stop doing it.

Mrs Concern got a decent bundle for £15

Probably paid over the odds at £5 for this Corgi milk tanker with the wrong Bedford cab, but I thought as the TK does have the mirrors which are £1.70 for repro ones and I have a spare S type cab, why not?

£5 for these three. Who collects the Polistil 1/25 model, is it @Split_Pin? If so do you want it (no problem if you don't btw)

£5 for these three too, I don't really collect the Corgi 1/36 but the Jeep is pretty much mint and has the top, which I've not seen before and the XJS was lonely. I thought Eddy would want the green tank thing and he does!

Strange mixture here, the Firebird has no writing at all on the base, no no idea, but it's nice! He wanted £2.

Corgi CopTina (thanks for the name @eddyramrod!) is mint and £8, again I don't really like cop cars much, but couldn't leave it behind. The 100 Avant is lovely, I thought it was a Conrad, but it's not. He wanted £6. Let me have them all for £15 which I was happy with.

Apparently it's a Shabak Modell (never heard of them) looks like it was dealer model

Tomte or Galanite Mini, not seen one before, wanted £12 and he let me have it for £8 which I'm sure is too dear, but hey.

Crappy Realtoys Evo for £1, I like it for no reason I can explain

Two plastic Norevs for £15, the Ami is gorgeous!

I've been looking for a French Dinky Simca estate with the folding picnic table for ages and never seen one. The seller I bought the Norevs from had a lovely original in the box which I really wanted, but it was £100. I decided I didn't want it that much! So when I spotted this Atlas repro for £14 I didn't hesitate. Well maybe just a bit!

Here's the lot, no real bargains, but it kept me out of trouble for today...

 

[morrisoxide]

4 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Went hunting for one earlier to no avail ☹️

If anyone has a spare please let me know 👍🏻

I scored two yesterday if you get stuck for one.

Looks like there is going to be a red recolour at some point too.