Amazon Japan (again)

While taking another look at Amazon Japan, I checked in on my wish list and saw that one item had been released, and another had received a small discount. As a result I found a few other items I was interested in and made my third order. Thanks to fast shipping and quick turn around time, I had a parcel at my door by the end of the week.

After seeing the Tomica Limited Vintage Neo Silvia Super Silhouette pre orders around the place, along with images of the item in hand I knew at some point I would break down and order it. As a result, it sat in my wish list and saved cart at Amazon Japan where I would check in on its discount level and hope it would actually sell out. Sadly for my wallet, it went on special before it sold out and ... so I purchased one. This is one again possibility the beginning of another slippery slope in collecting Tomica Limited Vintage and Vintage Neo (though thankfully, not too many cars actually stand out for me as must purchase). At the moment this will also go down as the most expensive 1/64th scale car I own and in person it is easy to see why it cost so much as the painted details are very well done (both on the car, inside the car and in the engine area).

Added to the order was another Tomica Limited Vintage Neo item, a Skyline 2000 test car. The reason for this purchase was mainly due to the cheapness of the item at Amazon at over 60% off retail. The book collection packaging is fairly interesting, though hard for me to fit into any collection.

Via TakaraTomy YouTube videos, I was introduced to a new Tomica item that combines my love of die cast with Transformers; a Tomica vehicle that transforms. Part of the on-going Hyper Rescue figures, this new vehicle has a standard Tomica car, and a larger vehicle that combine together and then transform into a humanoid robot. There are additional figures (sold separately of course) that allow the robot to have additional arms and legs, and coming in the future is a blue police version.

It wouldn't be an Amazon order without more Kyosho, so one additional car was added to the order - the cheapest available on my wish list.

Thankfully for my wallet, that may actually be the end of so many back to back Amazon Japan orders. While there are plenty of additional Kyosho cars on the wish list, Transformers will dominate future purchases for the rest of the year due to the insane number of items being released between July and November.