Anyone else into Tomicas?

Anyone else into Tomicas?

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em177

Original Poster:

3,138 posts

169 months

Wednesday 7th June 2023
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After living in Japan for almost a year I can safely say I’ve caught the Tomica bug.

The variety, availability, price and album art are super appealing, to the point I’m nearly at 100 of the dam things now and my tiny apartment really doesn’t have the room for many more!

Here’s a few pics of the collection so far, I had a huge die cast collection in the UK circa 10-15 years ago, stopped for a long time and now we’ll and truly obsessed again.

Interested to see if anyone outside Japan has a way of getting these.










SydneyBridge

9,189 posts

163 months

Wednesday 7th June 2023
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I have bought a few over the years from Ebay. Try and order a few at the same time to save on postage.
Was into thunderbirds many years and think Tomica did some good models, aren't they like Kinder eggs in Japan where you dont know what you get

Spottedlaurel

468 posts

174 months

Wednesday 7th June 2023
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I have a few 1980s cars and trucks, bought fairly cheaply in the '90s when toy fair sellers didn't really have much interest/knowledge on them.

A few years ago we built up a nice collection of the Hypercity range for my son. They got played with but looked after so they have survived well. A shame it's not available here any more.

bumskins

1,762 posts

20 months

Thursday 8th June 2023
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Nice looking collection OP, need to get a display cabinet for all mine... Unfortunately never seen these Tomicas offered openly anywhere i've bought models previously otherwise i'd have a few, probably for the best given how many bloody Vanguards etc i've got!