Elgee: You know what, you just happened to select the very first Tomica I bought in my collection

Here is an Event Special

ES-Toyota Crown Fire Chief Car

Disneys!! These are worth collecting to me cause they have open up new diecast moulds which are unique on their own and they are really a lot of models out there..

DS-Winnie The Pooh Series

Interesting note, so what categories of Tomicas would one collect? Obviously I am collecting many series and practically all categories. Most people would collect sporty cars, so let's talk about priorites - what's yours?

More Priority
Sports Cars
All Regular Box (Red/White)
All Tomica Limited Series
All Tomica Limited S Series
Unique Car Shapes - to own one of every mould out there
Disney Resort Limited Series
Tomica Shop Models

Lesser Priority
Buses & Trucks
Constructions Vehicles
Police Vehicles
Emergency Vehicles
Black Boxes (JDMs)
Blue Boxes (Foreign Series)
Lotto Sets
Box Sets
Tomica Limited Vintage
U-Mate Series
Tomica Town

For the record, pictures to help differentiate between the older and newer versions

Old

New


(Credits: Leoshop)

SB-Hokkaido Gold Skyline H-T 2000 GT-R

.. and it might end up in the same Blue *again*

SB-RM18 Celica Pace Car.jpg

Here's something to dig out all those old spams.. haha *kidding*

SB-Terex72-81 Loader (Expo Model)

Just did up a Tomica Collector Userbar myself.. check it out in my signature - feel free to adopt it too

DS-Grand Circuit Raceway (Blue & Red)


This post has been edited by Percivale: Oct 4 2008, 09:20 PM

Hi Drummerboy, here's the regular for comparison, just took the photo this morning

67-Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X



This post has been edited by Percivale: Oct 4 2008, 09:16 PM

Welcome to the Club

Thanks! A true researcher.. are you equally this hardworking for your studies.. hee that means the nameplate were excluded upon the start of the JGTC/SuperGT Series from TL0052 to TL0072.

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Added on October 4, 2008, 9:55 pmThanks Boss!

This post has been edited by Percivale: Oct 4 2008, 09:55 PM

Hi Cham, bought any lately? How many threads/posts before Version 2 comes round??

SB-Nismo Z Test Car 2004


and a year after..

SB-Nismo Z Test Car 2005

Noticed Mr Loon just started his Diecast Blog.. heh



On the topic of photography, was thinking of getting the Panasonic G1 as the replacement camera for my Tomica shots.. any comments or should a DSLR be the way to go..

Panasonic G1

Hi Hayashi, do you like them, come join us in your collection of Tomicas! Yeah most of my Tomicas are from overseas cause the variety is rather limited locally, same situation I was told in M'sia.

Thanks for the info, will give it some thoughts - gotta depend on the budget and frankly I am more a Canon & Panasonic fan wahahaha do keep up with your blog k!

Hi Cham. The Land of Tomica should be Japan and the second best place would be Hong Kong. I believe we get our stocks from Hong Kong distributor Mani and they often give me the sinking feeling we are taking the leftovers..

Okay moving on to different topic, one thing I liked about Tomicas is that they pay attention to minor details such as the inner box flap showing the box number.



some Special Models have a logo with no number, some with no logo and some with special logo (as shown below)