(05-05-2018, 08:19 AM)Muddy Poppins Wrote: Lol no, it's not solid silver, just a metallic silver plastic coating, but it has a limited production run of only 100...it will be the second rarest Thomas model ever produced, just ahead of Blushing Thomas (360) and just behind Gold Thomas...there will be millions of entries into a lottery, of which only 100 lucky winners will be drawn!!
...it's what all the hubbub was about with the "gold ball" and entry ticket prize that was randomly placed to find in the new PLARAIL Thomas & Merlin Coal Hopper set.
You'd think they would have made it tin plate or something special as wel as silver if it is such a limited production run. As it is I have a vision in my mind of some poor production worker called Takashi sitting there with a pile of Thomas body shells and some cans of silver paint saying over and over "why me, who did I upset today?!?"
Happily collecting things all my life... 
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