First new arrival in a long while, welcome porter

New arrival today. We went on a family trip to Toys 'R' Us for my son to spend his birthday money ( he got a hex bug nano set, a bike and a robot t-rex) whilst we were there I had a mooch down the thomas aisle, they had lots of 2nd generation trackmaster (but not the LBSC thomas) And some of the 'old' trackmasters but not much, they had a few Ferdinand sets, a couple of Luke sets and some Porter sets,



I plumped for the porter set as Ferdinand annoys me with his fake wheels & Luke annoys me with his out of proportion Cab! I'd have got both porter and Ferdinand but they were still expensive at £20 each ~ $30 usually I buy second hand sets from eBay but it was nice to open a fresh packet



It's nice that this is a flat drive (my least favourite transmission) but is quite quiet,

My plan is to deface him and give him a smokebox door, I liked him as a locomotive as he reminded me of a shunting locomotive I have in a book, made by a local company,