Massive, Insane Greenlight Haul

Early in March, I noticed a seller on Trademe (New Zealand's version of eBay) had listed a bunch of new Greenlights. Checking the distributors website, I was shocked to see that the number of available and shipping now products had almost doubled.

I worked out what was coming - Muscle Series 9, 10 and 11, Country Roads Series 12, Motor World Series 12 and 13, Film Reels Series 1 and 2, Hitch and Tow Series 1 and the Army Jeep series. Naturally - due to the way the supplier works - not all cars from the series were available to order, so I broke down the lists into what was available and what wasn't and then decided what I wanted to add to the collection from what was going to be available (making sure I wasn't going to be purchasing the same car for the 10th of 20th time in another colour). Armed with the list, I walked into my local Toyworld and asked if they could place an order for me.

The manager was away at the Melbourne Toy Fair, but the staff took my order and early this week I was informed that they had ordered and due to the suppliers location, they were expecting the order in the next day. The next day arrived and I popped in at lunch time to see if anything had arrived - they had just come in but the staff was in the process of sorting them out, adding them into the system to sell and then sorting out what I wanted from what came in. I was able to go through the box of arrivals to add more to my order and .. I was glad I did (more on that later).

After work I visited the store again and 15 minutes later and a lot of dollars lighter, I walked away with a large bag of new die cast goodness!

As you can see, I managed to purchase quite a few cars along with an older release that was on special to make way for the new releases.

From GL Muscle Series 9

From GL Muscle Series 10

From GL Muscle Series 11

From Motor World Series 12

From Motor World Series 13

From the "Hobby Only" Army Series

An older release

Earlier I mentioned being able to look through the all the cars that had arrived, and due to that search I was able to find a couple of "special" cars to add to the pile to purchase later.

That is right, I was able to find a couple of Green Machines. Sadly these are not the double Green Machines that I wish to collect, rather standard green wheels/base Green Machines. As a result, they will be added to the trade pile in order to try and get something I want, but it sure is nice to find in the "wild". Due to how the distributor selectively chooses the cars for sale in New Zealand rather than offering the entire series, I was concerned that Green Machines would be left out of the available cars since they would not match the listed colour of the car. With this find I know that the Green Machines that have green wheels and bases are left in the assortment, but I am still concerned about the double Green Machines since a green car is clearly not a blue car.

There were a few other cars that I would have loved to have picked up, but I decided to leave them for another day, and maybe (hopefully) a sale.