thomas and friends mini series

Today was the first day in Ontario, Canada where I finally saw 2017 wave 1. At a Walmart. They must have just added them today. I swear I never even saw many 2016 waves at Walmarts in the last year. Pretty awesome. And sure enough they are awfully light in comparison.

Funny you should mention the weight it was about the first thing I noticed when I un-bagged the first one, what have they done to them? They are so light now that they feel like cheap plastic crap you get given away with kids comics or something.

Why they feel they had to go down this road is beyond me, they cost enough that they must have been making a killing anyway so why short-change everyone with this new cheap design? I noticed on at least one the body doesn't sit so well on the chassis either, there is definitely a small gap, possibly I suspect due to the plastic deforming slightly and not fitting tight enough, probably caused by it being too thin.

Still I guess they are running out of ideas for new models so are probably trying to get as much profit out of these last models before they kill the range off so won't care if the collectors turn their backs...

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Had them here last week as well, managed to grab all 10 new ones

Silly question time, you do know there is 18 in the full wave 1?