Greetings from Germany

[Miller]

Hi Group,

my name is Roland and i´m a Matchboxholic!

Thank you for having me here! After some years of absence from this hobby due to movings and to less room for it, i decided a few weeks ago, to get the boxes out of the attic and "play again". It all started with this...

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Dont worry - 80% of my toys are called "playworn", so there aren´t big losses here!

First step - ordering and rating of whats there.

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That was the moment, when i searched for a source for informations and i stumbled over Nick Jones wonderfull website.
As you can see, i mainly collect regular wheels, transitionals and kingsize, but also other makes can be found in that boxes. I have a big Mercedes modell car collection and this also will leave the boxes in the next time.

I installed two showcases and began to fill them with some Accessoriepacks and then beginning with A1. Well - the nice thing about Nicks website is, that there is a wealth of informations, the bad thing is, you run out of room for all these variations once you get infected with this virus! So thank you Nick for endless hours of researching every fugging single beater!

So the challenge went on...

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While searching the website and this forum for answers i found out, that here are a lot of wellknown names in this forum. Some years ago I´ve been a member of an american forum, but after a while i didn´t feel comfortable there anymore. So its good to see some known "faces" here.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Welcome to the forum Roland.

With such a large collection you are instantly entered into the exclusive hall of fame that is Nick Jones VBD forum. I hope you enjoy your stay here and please do not hesitate in asking any questions, however simple you may feel it is.

Ghosthunter.

[Miller]

Thanks for your welcome, Ghosty! ( You can see, i´ve been reading her for a while )

I will ask a lot of questions, especially about variations and the way the get "accepted". While i examined my collection i found a lot of ??? for a noob. Well, i´m not really a noob, but i hope to get enlightened here

[Malibu]

Hi Roland,

welcome to this forum.
Members are very kind here so it is always a pleasure to take part.
May I ask you where you are from?
I live in Aichtal some 20 Kilometer south of Stuttgart.

Stephan

[Miller]

Hi Stephan,

i live in the Muensterland north of the Ruhrgebiet. Its a little countyside, so i chare the same problem with Nick - bandwidth

BTW - is every single post here checked by a moderator or is it just for new members?

[Idris]

i live in the Muensterland north of the Ruhrgebiet. Its a little countyside, so i chare the same problem with Nick - bandwidth

BTW - is every single post here checked by a moderator or is it just for new members?

Your first three posts have to be individually approved (just so we're certain that you aren't a spammer of some kind). From no. 4 onwards, you're flying solo!

[Miller]

Thx Idris, this makes sense!

[motorman]

Welcome to the Forum Roland. I also hope you enjoy being here and want to encourage you to ask lots of questions and post lots of images. I love your model displays they look great. See you around the forum.

[fixer]

welcome Roland
it looks like there's a few harder to find variations among your collection
as the others have said enjoy your time here

[kay]

Finally another collector from Germany - great!
It usually is not easy to get them joining here......

So welcome, Roland!

Kay aus Bönningstedt (bei Hamburg)