thomas and friends mini series

With new packaging and all, It’s looking like they’re going strong with this line of trains for a little while still. I can’t help but sort of want them to end it soon, but that’s mostly due to selfish reasons. I won’t stop buying them; I’m way too invested at this point. However, I really dislike the way they randomly distribute everything and are constantly forcing the obsessive collectors to buy huge packs just for 1-3 exclusive trains. I have hundreds of extras and it’s almost all because i had to buy the same ones over and over again just to get one new one. Super station James is the epitome of that. I don’t know what I’ll do if they do that crap again.

If they rolled these trains out properly and fairly to stores in my country my attitude would be a bit different. But the fact that still in Canada we have barely seen any 2017 waves (blind bags mostly) and it’s now 2018 is too frustrating to express. It really does feel like they ship all their extra unsold stuff here and it gets thrown on all our Walmart shelves. I know that’s not really true, but that’s almost how it feels.

Now that said, it feels good to be mostly caught up again. I just need the slimes still and whenever 2018 stuff starts to show up here.

Also one other reason I kind of want the line to end is because I want to make a really nice custom display case for all of them whenever they stop making them. Can’t wait for that.