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Fred7A wrote:Well I made it to Wimborne and met Steve (shockwavetrading). We had a chat and he did me a good deal on a couple of Spot On Magicars as well as a Corgi MG Maestro. When I got home I tested the lights on the Maestro and they still work! I also found a couple of nice old Dinkies, so a good day. Wimborne isn't a huge event, but there were plenty of interesting items on offer and lots of people to chat to so I managed to spend about 3 hours there in total.

Hi Jason, great to see you at Wimborne. Glad the Maestro works There was a lot more dealers of old stuff there than some of the other fairs I've done recently.
Picked up a trio of redlines, a #67 VW, Corgi Rockets Merc SL and a Siku Ambulance and only spent £10!!! However I missed out on a Corgi Rockets Ford Escort WITH the mechanics by about 5 seconds. It was mint, and sold for £3!!!

Anyone going to Brentwood tomorrow ?

Meeeeeee

I'll bring you a present Reginald.

All of a sudden, it's the NEC Birmingham toy fair again, this coming Sunday 27th December. I trust there will be some 'VBD' forum members in attendance. I certainly would love to be there but simply cannot commit until virtually the morning itself, so if I do get there I hope to bump into you Guys again (''Idris'', "Petethesweet", "Fixer", "Misterpop" and maybe this time meet up with "Leonty24"), and my stallholder friends, Steve and Stephenk.

GHOSTHUNTER.

Ghosty i shall be there selling my display cases on e3 hope you can make it

Definitely won't make it to NEC... Over spent on the granddaughter this Christmas

fixer wrote:Definitely won't make it to NEC... Over spent on the granddaughter this Christmas

Money well spent Reg!!!

Hi all Merry Christmas to everybody. Hope to go to the NEC but snowing like hell here hope its not as bad as 4 years ago Pete

I went to the NEC yesterday. It was not a great day at all. I left home at 9.30am to discover that a bus had caught fire on the dual carriageway nearby. I queued through the middle of town for over half an hour to get to the north of town and finally hit the motorway (instead of the 5 minute drive I normally do). I then discovered that the clever idiots who plan these things have put in a 50 mile an hour speed limit with time over distance cameras all the way from where I joined the motorway until the M6 due to replacing the central reservation. Why they can't do it a bit at a time is beyond me. So that added even more time on to my journey. I finally got to the NEC at 11.30am. Only an hour late. And well, there was very little there for the Matchbox enthusiast. I did get a couple of little things so it was not a complete waste of time, but there was nothing of real interest.

But as this was my only chance to go to a toy fair for a long time, I cannot complain too much. I think I may be able to make something in mid-late February, although that is not confirmed.