Monday, October 8, 2012

Large Matchbox Haul

Last week I had way much more time to go hunting. To make it more interesting, it was the start of a new month, meaning more new restocks! It was a nice Monday morning when I entered into KK Toys, and I saw that they had finally restocked with new Matchbox vehicles. I was expecting it to be the Batmobile wave, but instead it was the Evo X/ Subaru Impreza Police car wave.

All cars had base codes E20-E23.

I was quite surprised that this wave would show up here in KK so soon. The Evo X police car is really, really hot here in Malaysia - and there were two units of that on the pegs. I grabbed one and left the other for other collectors to 'savour' it. Overall, all the cars here are really awesome.. am satisfied with the haul. FYI, this wave came with the brown Ford GT, the BMW R1200 RT-P police motorcycle and the Classic Seagrave Fire Engine. Within days, all these good cars have vanished from the pegs!

On Wednesday, I was told that the Signature store had restocked more Hotwheels again, and it happened to be case M. I went there, but only found the blue Civic Si of interest. Little did I expect another Matchbox restock there.. and it was part of the latest wave to hit Malaysia. It was the black BMW Z4 wave!

Base code for Civic is E24, for the MBX is E28.

In the new MBX wave, the purple Land Cruiser FJ40 is just a true beauty.. full of great details! The Chevy Stepside truck was really good too! The black Z4 was no exception.. finally one with great light details and no body tampos. Another satisfying haul..

On a side note, I dropped by 1 Borneo Hypermall for some hunting, but to no avail - there was no new HW stock. However, I did see these nice models from Maisto and Bburago at Parkson. This branch had just restocked too apparently.

Camaro SS, Laguna Seca Boss, and 3 colour variants of the Aventador!

I don't know why but I'm beginning to like these Aventadors by Bburago.. but the price is a bit harsh.

Rare colour.. the pearl yellow.


Arancio Argos shade.. the well known colour for the Aventador.

Lastly I spotted this poor fellow.. its RM 20 cheaper compared to the others.. the left door gone, and there were some stains on the bonnet. Would anyone buy it?

Defective? Or due to mistreatment from irresponsible shoppers?
What a waste of a nice model!

That pretty much wraps up this post. Thanks for your time~