(06-25-2016, 03:23 PM)ripley802 Wrote: Still waiting on it to ship. The shipping bill was a hard pill to swallow, but then again it always is. I will try and get some pics of the Ryan's unless someone already had done a review/pics of them. I put the TMR one back in the box as I was not using it.
I saw a d51-498, I meant to tell you but completely forgot. It did not have the box or anything though. I will stay on the look out for you. I saw the R/C one you received, that is awesome. Great finds.
No worries about the Ryan's I was just curious to see what the differences were, since I started branching out in the pandora's box called japanese railway modelling I've found so many other interesting things I've been neglecting the Thomas range. So much so that I think I'll keep my new ones and best examples of used that I don't have new of and sell off the rest at some point (i.e. when I get time lol).
The ones that most interest me at the moment are the Bandai Train B Shorty's and my latest interest the Konami DigiQ's - another system from 2002 that was discontinued in 2005 but is just so advanced that even now I don't think there's anything to compare to it...
Happily collecting things all my life... 