So, what has kept me busy during the past 18 months? These
It all started with trying to get Matchbox and Hot Wheels versions of the Volkswagen I'm most crazy for -- the VW Type 181. Call it the Kurierwagen, the Trekker, the Safari, or the Thing. Back during my high school days, I was lucky enough to have driven one that was owned by a very good friend. May God bless your soul, Beng.
The want to get them all turned into an urge. The urge turned into an obsession. So I turned to the toy stores.
The Hot Wheels (and some Matchbox) versions were easy to acquire off the pegs.
Getting two variants made by Matchbox was a bit more challenging. Luckily, I found the zebra and red (Lesney) editions being sold by a nice chap from one of the local die-cast forums.
The pearl-white variant from the 2011 Matchbox VW Classics 5-pack was a given due to it's recent release:
So was the HW Boulevard Series release (shown below with a Johnny Lightning one), since it was just released last year:
I got so into it that I grabbed another Johnny Lightning Thing.
However, until now, I'm still looking for the one significant variant that's missing from my MBX/HW collection -- the green Matchbox VW Thing from the 2008 10-pack. I let one being offered in eBay slip by a few months ago, and I still can't forgive myself for doing so. If you've got one, and are willing to part with it, kindly drop me a message (arnelmanlises @ yahoo . com) and I'd be more than willing to work things out.
Here's a pic of the Thing (excuse the pun) I'm desperately looking for:
Maybe you're wondering how come it took me 1.5 years to snag the 8 variants from Matchbox and 6 from Hot Wheels. Well, here's the great part -- it wasn't only VW Type 181s that I went after. But that's for another blog post. :D
See you all next year! ^_^
