Latest Acquistions - Nov 21, 2018

I discovered the HMV in MongKok by mistake.   I was just wandering around the MongKok MTR station and found this mall called The Forest closeby.   On the upper level, I could see there was an HMV store.  I wasn't expecting to find anything, was just curious to check out the store since all of the HMVs in Canada have pretty much gone away. 

When I got off the escalator, I found that there was actually two parts to the store.   On one side was the media like DVDs and CDs.  On the other side they had pop culture stuff like Tshirts, Marvel, Disney items.   In the middle of it all. I saw a Tomica display.   Best of all there was a 25% off sale going on.  The basic Tomicas were priced at $39 HKD, but with the 25% off discount this came to $30.  They had about a quarter of the full lineup, but they were the latest models.

Here's what I got:

#78 Subaru Levorg (blue), issued in 2015, scale is 1/65.

#93 Nissan Leaf (white, with blue roof), issued in 2017, scale is 1/63.

My total cost for today was $60 HKD for the 2 cars.
There's only 4 or 5 HMV stores in Hong Kong, so if I get a chance I try to visit some of the other stores and see if they have a different selection of cars. 

$30 HKD = $3.80 USD or $5.10 CAD.

Latest Acquisitions - Fri Nov 9, 2018

I'll be spending a couple of months in the Hong Kong area.   While I'm here I'm hoping to add some more Tomicas to my small collection.

I heard about this gian Toys R Us store in Hong Kong at the Tsim Sha Tsui Harbour City mall. 
The Toys R Us in Tsim Sha Tsui is the flagship store so they carry a lot of exclusive and promo diecast that the other Toys R Us stores in Hong Kong don't have.   They had some Tomica Event Models on display and for sale.  I decided to go down and check it out.

I saw this display over the regular Tomica shelves.  Some of these Exclusive cars are already sold out.

They only have a limited selection.  To buy one the Tomica Event cars, you have to take one of the tickets at the store entrance and then take it to the customer service desk to redeem the coupon for the car.   The Tomica Event cars are being sold at $60 HKD which makes it under $8 USD or $10 CAD each.

I thought the Suzuki Carry Pig truck was pretty cool, so I bought that and the Toyota Prius model.

They also have some Toys R Us exclusive Tomicas also at $60 HKD.  I might go back and take another look one day.