Mighty Ape Misc Haul

Mighty Ape is New Zealand's own version of Amazon; started with books and then computer games and now basically stocks anything you can think of. Thanks to their fantastic online ordering system and the ability to order and spread the payments over time without paying interest or penalties for doing so, I was able to build an order of one item into an order of a dozen items.

On Christmas Eve 2015, while looking at early Boxing Day sales, I spotted a pre order for an imported G1 Reissue Platinum set due for release on the 1st January 2016. January turned into March and March turned into April before the item was finally released. Because I was heading overseas, I got in touch with the store and asked them if I could hold it shipment until I got back from the holiday and they agreed. Never had the G1 "Conehead" seekers as a child, and as Takara only released them as expensive reissues once in 2003 it was hard to even get them as an adult.

2 days before I left for overseas, Mighty Ape advised me of a price drop on a Lego Creator set I had been looking at for some time. With a very tempting price and a note to say they only had one left, I added the item into my ongoing order and made a payment and left another note with the store that I would pay it off when I returned from overseas. Eventually I look forward to the day that I can actually build this set - I plan to display it as a truck and trailer unit rather than the made up carnival.

In early June I was again advised by Mighty Ape that they had put some of the Marvel Universe/Marvel Infinite I was after on sale, and while I couldn't afford to get everything I wanted, I did manage to add a few to the ongoing order.

While looking through the coming soon/new release and clearance sections of Mighty Ape, I notice that they had some 4 inch DC Multiverse figures on clearance. Much like Marvel items, because I had to import my collection of these figures never got started. However several years later .. I can finally start, though as the line has already been discontinued, getting some figures may be harder than others.

With the order almost paid off, I took another spin around Mighty Ape to see what I might be tempted in and found myself looking at some Hasbro Transformers I had been looking at in local stores - these were Transformers that Takara had not yet released and were significantly cheaper than any local store.