Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Some Purchases From Kuala Lumpur

Last month I headed down to KL for a holiday. I went hunting around most major malls and these are what I managed to get:


The MBX was from Cold Storage, while the Mustang and Buick was from Carrefour; all of which are from Mid Valley. Both Infiniti was from Aeon 1 Utama, and the BMW Z4 was a trade. I was even lucky enough to find myself a copy of the 2012 HW Collector booklet at Metrojaya Mid Valley!


 Besides 1/64s, I also went around looking for cars I liked in Maisto's Power Racer line up. I got the green Beetle from Tesco Mutiara Damansara and at the first sight of it, I was amazed. The other 3 are from MJ Mid Valley, priced at RM 22.90 each. It was more expensive I thought, but the items were on 20% discount, so the prices were more or less similar after discounted.

When I arrived back home in KK, a parcel had arrived. I opened it up to find these-
These two models which I found from Lowyat forum was bought from Thailand by the seller. Each came with a rather heavy price tag! But they look fantastic, especially the VW Golf!

Sunday, August 5, 2012

More Hotwheels Restocks And Haul (E09 and E13)

This week, I was informed that the only Toys R Us in my city had restocked with the E13 wave, weeks after it restocked with the E09 wave. It was a shocker for me as restocks at this rate never occurred before. True enough, the distant sight of some BMW Z4s, Ferrari Californias and blue Porsche 911 GT2 greeted me as I walked toward the Hotwheels section:



I also managed to find one VW Brasilia with the heat fleet tampo; it looked awesome. There were also 2 Honda S2000s. On a side note, the white Infiniti G37 is released in this wave, but I hardly ever see collectors buying it. Maybe its 'pizza rims' gave it away.

Unfortunately (and as expected), there were no treasure hunts (Ferrari 430 Scuderia) and supers spotted here. There were also no Reventon, Mad Manga and Amazoom and Scion xB at this particular Toys R Us.

Luck was on my side when I found one Reventon left aside at the cashier. So I walked away with 4 new E13 vehicles. Plus the treasure hunt I ordered online with two other basic cars, this is what I have from the E13 wave:



Since there is a Giant just nearby Toys R Us in 1 Borneo, I thought there would be no harm to stop by to check what's hanging on the pegs at the toys section there:


Yet another E09 restock. Plenty of Aston Martins, Subarus, Dodge Viper and C6 Corvettes. Someone helped themselves to the t-hunt Malibu in this wave few days ago, or so I heard. The pegs are loaded with great cars these few days!