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My Cranky Amazon Adventure 

I really liked this new FP Cranky: it's rather big, engines can go through it, and it comes with a nice orange little troublesome truck with a lovely modeled face. So I decided to buy it.

Amazon.com was not an option. USD 130.56 "Shipping & Import Fees" for a 20 Dollars item? I wonder, did good people from Amazon.com somehow confused Europe, where I live, with Europa, one of the Jupiter's moons?



Now, Amazon UK was OK. There the price was some 16 or 17 Pounds, but on the day I decided to buy it the price suddenly dropped. Now Cranky was only GBP 8.33 (GBP 13.13 with Shipping & Handling):



So I bought that Cranky. That was on January 11th. The very next day the price goes up, and Cranky was now GBP 16 (plus GBP 11.08 Shipping):



Amazon UK has obviously concluded that I bought it too cheaply, so they sent it to me with the absolute slowness champion among the shipping operators, some company called ASNDI (never heard of them). Their tracking number is useless if the sender didn't pay for tracking services (Amazon, of course, didn't). They must be using horse-drawn carriages, and rowing boats for crossing the English Channel, because Cranky came only on Thursday. That was so slow that I already got this message on my Amazon UK Orders-page:





But, Cranky was not lost. He finally arrived and here he is:



I removed the stand with built-in rail (because it's a Trackmaster rail). Cranky's face is very nice and you can turn the dials on Cranky's head and base to lift his hook and spin him around (360°).



I think he is looking very smart, here in my Harbour. His name is printed (not a sticker), and he is full of little rivets (you'll like them, Super ).



There are two lobster-boxes that can be lifted by Cranky: the yellow one with lobster sign, and a clear one with two little plastic red lobsters inside. They both fit the truck, but if you put them inside, you can go through Cranky, but you won't make it under the bridges or through J-13, J-26 stations, and other elements on your Plarail layout.



The Little orange troublesome truck is very small but really nice, has plastic axles and wobbles while in motion (like Nia's trucks).










Both Cranky and the truck are very nice additions, don't you think?