JNH’s “Series II” cars – Are COMING!!

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- March 24, 2003 at 6:24 pm #10139
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  Heard offical word from JNH, Tomy’s agent in Australia.
  
  Some ‘new’ Tomica Bit Char-G cars will be released locally *soon*, they’re slated as “New Release 2003” items. They will be sold as “Series II” alongside current Tomy Compact Char-Gs at your local toy shops. 🙂
  
  Unsure if they’ll be rebadged as Compacts (probably not).
  
  Pricewise probably the same as Compacts.
  
  Which models? That’s the $64,000 question… Nothing outside of the usual Japan models we all already know about but. Whether we get one, some or all is left to be seen.
  
  No word on Tomica hopups either.
- March 24, 2003 at 7:24 pm #35664
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  Hopefully they’ll offer the same tings they’re offerring in the USA – heaps of shells, and some other hop-ups.
  
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- March 24, 2003 at 7:24 pm #35966
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  Hopefully they’ll offer the same tings they’re offerring in the USA – heaps of shells, and some other hop-ups.
  
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- March 24, 2003 at 8:51 pm #39060
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  No, I said “Tomica Bit Char-G”, not “Hobbico Microsizers”. blackeye:
  
  JNH/Funtastic are Oz agents for Tomy, not Hobbico.
  Hobbico are for US only, they do not export.
  Totally individual company, but for that licencing deal.
- March 24, 2003 at 9:01 pm #35642
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  where did u find that beautiful peice of info panda:D
  
  nice work on finiding it and hopefully we get sum half decent shells and shell sets. I dont care about hops ups now lol. got way to many
  
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- March 24, 2003 at 9:01 pm #35944
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  where did u find that beautiful peice of info panda:D
  
  nice work on finiding it and hopefully we get sum half decent shells and shell sets. I dont care about hops ups now lol. got way to many
  
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- March 24, 2003 at 9:12 pm #35651
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  I am in MELBOURNE, the centre of the Australian Toy Universe!!! Nyah-hah-har!!! 👿
  
  (Whole of Oz’s sales reps are in Melbourne last w/e!)
  
  And if you guys want reason to be SCARED…
  … “Strawberry Shortcake” and “Care Bears” are COMING BACK!!! 😯
- March 24, 2003 at 9:12 pm #35953
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  I am in MELBOURNE, the centre of the Australian Toy Universe!!! Nyah-hah-har!!! 👿
  
  (Whole of Oz’s sales reps are in Melbourne last w/e!)
  
  And if you guys want reason to be SCARED…
  … “Strawberry Shortcake” and “Care Bears” are COMING BACK!!! 😯
- March 24, 2003 at 9:14 pm #35653
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  my work (grace Bros/Myer) has just recieved a shipment oif Carebears…. i refused to unpack them lol.
  
  but i seriously cant wait for cool 40mhz shells
  
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- March 24, 2003 at 9:14 pm #35955
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  my work (grace Bros/Myer) has just recieved a shipment oif Carebears…. i refused to unpack them lol.
  
  but i seriously cant wait for cool 40mhz shells
  
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- March 24, 2003 at 9:22 pm #39792
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  my work (grace Bros/Myer) has just recieved a shipment oif Carebears…. i refused to unpack them lol.
  
  Yeah, they now come in Small as well as Big, not just the traditional 15″ size. And there’s some weird ‘new’ ones, or maybe just redesigned. Can’t say I paid too much attention to that display… :smiley2:
  
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  but i seriously cant wait for cool 40mhz shells
  
  Not even sure if they’ll bother changing the freqs and boxes, 50:50 chance we’ll just get the Jap freqs/box. The ones on expo display certainly were just a few of normal Jap ones. All I can see is that shopkeepers now have another line on their order sheets labelled “CharG Series 2” and stock is expected approx 2-3 mths time. Shopkeeps don’t even get to choose the models, its all listed under “various design”. Very potluck.
  
  JNH also said there’ll be media advertising, although this may just be the same old advert shown again. Gotta watch the kiddy TV for that.
- March 24, 2003 at 9:28 pm #35618
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  Oh, and my friend (who’s been playing BCG for 2 yrs) commented:
  
  “No sign of Hero cars (he means the Mach racers & Ultraman I think), nor the Wild CharGs.”
- March 24, 2003 at 9:28 pm #35918
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  Oh, and my friend (who’s been playing BCG for 2 yrs) commented:
  
  “No sign of Hero cars (he means the Mach racers & Ultraman I think), nor the Wild CharGs.”
- March 25, 2003 at 2:04 am #35608
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  Aww man! I missed that expo… where was it PandaBear? Or wasn’t it open to the public?
  
  The impossible just takes a little longer
- March 25, 2003 at 2:04 am #35905
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  Aww man! I missed that expo… where was it PandaBear? Or wasn’t it open to the public?
  
  The impossible just takes a little longer
- March 25, 2003 at 4:31 pm #35479
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  Or wasn’t it open to the public?
  
  Afraid its “Trade only”, and they were pretty strict even on accompanying kids… no one allowed between 2 and 12 I think. 👿
  
  Mainly because all stock is all openly displayed and everything available for demo, so there’s toys just lying everywhere. Definitely NOT the place you want kiddies running amok!!! :blush:
- March 25, 2003 at 4:31 pm #35776
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  Or wasn’t it open to the public?
  
  Afraid its “Trade only”, and they were pretty strict even on accompanying kids… no one allowed between 2 and 12 I think. 👿
  
  Mainly because all stock is all openly displayed and everything available for demo, so there’s toys just lying everywhere. Definitely NOT the place you want kiddies running amok!!! :blush:
- March 25, 2003 at 8:14 pm #35493
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  bastard panda. i would’ve loved that and shame we dont get hero cars.
  
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- March 25, 2003 at 8:14 pm #35790
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  bastard panda. i would’ve loved that and shame we dont get hero cars.
  
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- March 28, 2003 at 3:19 pm #35050
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  yeah read about that in the paper was going to scam my way in say im from buying for just say some company ware a suit lol good news on the bits thogh the fact that aus is getting REAL BITS not compacts really sounds sweet looks like barrell and trading direct will have to shut up shop
  
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- March 28, 2003 at 5:19 pm #35027
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  …was going to scam my way in say im from buying for just say some company
  
  Haha, they do have pretty good verification of bonafides :blush:.
  Know anyone with a real company who’s got links to the toy trade?
  
  Oz toy trade is a pretty small & closeknit industry.
  Everyone knows everyone else, and Melbourne is just like an
  annual opportunity to chat and catchup with the interstate guys.
  
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  ware a suit lol
  
  Huh??! Get real… this is the TOY industry!! 😀
  
  The only suits there are on the salesdrones.
  There was a car in carpark with “TOYREP” plates too.
  
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  looks like barrell and trading direct will have to shut up shop
  
  Haha, well they’ll have some competition but I think
  they’ll have other stuff to fallback upon, no worries.
- March 28, 2003 at 9:55 pm #39773
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  yeh well the cars that come out will always be a year or so behind japan, its alright for us anyway were going to be getting into the NEW cars coming out in april 😉
  
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- March 29, 2003 at 10:08 pm #34951
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  GT2 here i come….
  
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- March 30, 2003 at 1:48 am #34954
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  all i had to do was ring up the phone number on the back of the box and pretend to own a shop…
  i did and they told me, (who’s gonna give me 64’000$?) rx-7, bb,and you ring em up and post the rest…
- March 30, 2003 at 10:50 pm #34962
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  LOL^
  
  nice work
  
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- March 31, 2003 at 11:00 pm #34984
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  ah well at least we are prolly gettin a Rx7, a WRX a Evo and what else could the other be???
  
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- March 31, 2003 at 11:00 pm #34983
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  all i had to do was ring up the phone number on the back of the box and pretend to own a shop… i did and they told me, (who’s gonna give me 64’000$?) rx-7, bb,and you ring em up and post the rest…
  
  No big secret anymore but not sure if bB is gonna make it, the pricelist only lists 4 cars under series II and its not one of them.
  
  (Yeah, that’s JNH’s wholesale pricelist.)
- April 1, 2003 at 3:50 am #34991
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  i phoned well before the toy fair was on, it’s pretty likely they could change the line up of cars. the 27 and 40 mhz frequency limits suck tho.
  
  did you see any holden micro rc’s?
- April 1, 2003 at 4:11 am #34992
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  i like having 40mhz as a Frequecny, wish Bits werent as interfeabel as they are….
  
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- April 1, 2003 at 4:16 am #34996
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  my 45mhz booster dosnt interfere with my 40mhz compact. wish they would do something special for australia.
- April 1, 2003 at 8:11 pm #35010
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  …the 27 and 40 mhz frequency limits suck tho.
  
  Not sure if they’re getting them repackaged even. From the boxes on show they were just the normal Jap Bits, in the Jap freqs.
  
  (Wonder if they’ll put in an English instruction sheet though!!?)
- April 1, 2003 at 8:14 pm #35011
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  did you see any holden micro rc’s?
  
  Nothing of note.
  
  Just the usual lot of 1/10 ones from Model Engines – y’know, the common HSV Coupe and Ute on the GV elec and gas chassis, sold RTR in the box window box.
  
  There was a 1/16th toy out too, but that’s the smallest RC Holden seen there.
- April 1, 2003 at 10:12 pm #35014
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  Hope they bring BCG booster sets in to Aus.
  
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- April 1, 2003 at 11:29 pm #34910
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  the USA have it so why the hell dont we have boosters:angry:
  
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- April 2, 2003 at 10:39 pm #34860
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  That’s what got me scratching me head mainly – ‘cos on the collection of ~10 Jap boxes that they had on the show shelf, I saw an *ORANGE* box peeking out amongst them .
  
  (know whaddya mean?) :blush:
  
  But no where in the lists are they differentiated. JNH staffers are none wiser either.
  
  Guess we can only wait until stocks arrive.
- April 3, 2003 at 3:43 am #39762
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  ORANGE AS IN FAIRLADY!!!!
  
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- April 4, 2003 at 5:05 pm #34792
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  some shop lady was telling me about a holden micro ute that they are getting in. the web address the lady gave me to check it out doesn’t work so i think she was trippin…
- April 5, 2003 at 10:35 pm #34704
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  my guess is you are right^
  
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- April 7, 2003 at 10:24 pm #34655
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  hmm ill just sit tight and wait and see what happens, im more excited about the new series of bit char-gs 😀
  
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