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| Tractor Supply Corp, diecast sale; gold Wagoneer $1 | |
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| 78Gremlin_GT | May 2 2015, 10:49 PM Post #1 |
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The Gremlin Guy
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I hit a distant TSC this afternoon on the way home, and they were clearing out the diecast vehicle rack of some, they had sale prices up on some. Ertl Dukes police cruiser was .99 cents, and the former JL gold Wagoneer was also priced down to .99. I bought one, as I already have 5, but for that price, couldn't pass up another. So maybe they're making space for the next round, like that pink 57 Chevy hearse someone posted before? Man, I want to get a few of those! I love that 57 Chevy hearse, I think I've got all the JL derivations. Anyway, just a heads-up of any of you are looking for more and cheaper. Jerry
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| pjedsel | May 2 2015, 11:02 PM Post #2 |
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Muscle Car
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The other possibility is they are getting rid of all of the diecast - I have noticed over the years most TSC stores having less and less diecast items. At one time they were one of the best places to go and get ERTL farm toys. The last TSC I stopped at had very little left in the collect and play display an the clerk seemed to think they would not be restocking it. |
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| daniel60 | May 3 2015, 04:57 AM Post #3 |
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Personal Luxury Car
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At my feed store they had the 1993 Ford F150 on clearance and that was about all I saw besides some Ertl Trucks with trailers they weren't on clearance.
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| cody6268 | May 3 2015, 07:53 AM Post #4 |
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With most of the JL's I've found since the initial set I bought, some jerk took off the wheels and tires of the ones still there. I wanted to pick up an IH Scout truck that wasn't a White Lightning, so I could use the white hubcaps with the black wheels, luckily those seem to be untouched. Since the wheels can't be taken off the Camaro (the only one I don't have), luckily those are untouched too. I tried to find one of the Ertl Hazzard County Sheriff's cars that was on sale, but they were all gone, I'm assuming there was a run on them since Mr. Best passed away. When it comes to the Prestige logging and construction vehicles, and even some 1/64s I've never seen elsewhere, the local John Deere dealership (there used to be two, each owned by a brother of the Conn family, they were bought out, then the name changed to Meade about two years ago, and one was closed) which just so happens to be located close to the local mall, can't be beat. The prices are good too. As of right now, all TSC has is several C&Ps that don't sell, a bunch of HW monster trucks some kid left well over a month ago that haven't been removed, damaged ones that I keep giving to the clerk (all missing wheels and tires), and Tomicas which I already have (except Mario Kart). I also collect Breyer horses, and at one time (when the store here opened in 2005 or 2006) there was an entire side of an aisle in the horse tack area full of Breyers. Ertl had a whole aisle too, next to the front. At Christmas, the high end tractors and 1/64s were easy to find. Nowdays, that Ertl aisle has chainsaws in it, Breyer and Ertl have been relegated to a five foot long shelf at the front of the store, and the Christmas selection is mostly toy grade items. I think I'll take advantage of the sale and purchase a whole set of the Mario Kart cars, just because they're Tomicas. Edited by cody6268, May 3 2015, 05:16 PM.
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| Diecastmania | May 3 2015, 05:11 PM Post #5 |
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I've noticed that many stores that used to have Collect and Play items no longer stock them or have very little stock left. Some I noticed have used the displays to hold other items (non diecast) |
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| cody6268 | May 3 2015, 05:15 PM Post #6 |
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Farm Bureau in my area had the line for a short time. Now that place is used to hold sunglasses, various small hardware and belts. |
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| W Gee | May 3 2015, 09:59 PM Post #7 |
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Station Wagon
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At Christmas the TSC near me in Canada had a couple isles of kids toys but little in the way of diecast... Collect & Play racks pretty much empty ,no 1/64 tractors and implements , a few Ertl semi sets . also obviously missing was JL but that is understandable . It was a big disappointment ....especially when at Christmas TSC was a given to find cool stuff in the past... |
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| b2young | May 12 2015, 08:54 AM Post #8 |
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I just learned that TSC is planning on opening its first store in this area. Fitting for my pessimism to see the above comments about TSC stocking less and less of what collectors used to be able to find there, just as the company finally comes to this farming area. (The store is proposed for the small farm valley and town of Emmett, about a 40-minute drive north from here. A neophyte would think the store should be a bit closer to the "Treasure Valley", where Boise, Nampa and Caldwell and hundreds of farms cover the land....but apparently not TSC....) |
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| Stangfreak | May 12 2015, 09:44 AM Post #9 |
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Convertible
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WOW, there is one not too far from me I haven't been to in a good while... Have to check them out today!!! Thanks for the tip!!! |
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| Eurosport94 | May 14 2015, 09:45 AM Post #10 |
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Station Wagon
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I don't know if I've ever been in a TSC. The only one I know of is probably a good 1.5 hours away. Why do they take the cars out of the boxes? |
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| pjedsel | May 14 2015, 09:51 AM Post #11 |
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Muscle Car
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They don't. This is the way they get them - not sure of all the reasoning behind it except when ERTL first did this method they were their lower end toys - plastic and not as detailed as their regular releases. Then they started adding the diecast cars from ERTL and Racing Champions and later Johnny Lightning - after Tomica bought them a few Tomica issues have shown up as well - but always loose. Most store owners I have visited with do not really like this set up as they are to easy to slip into a pocket and walk out the door with. I will be in Dickinson, ND (hour and a half drive for me) today on business. They have a newer TSC so will stop there and see if they have anything to bring home as it is not that far from the new hospital. |
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| daniel60 | May 14 2015, 12:53 PM Post #12 |
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Personal Luxury Car
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A long time ago someone had that Christmas Car that was a Red Chrome Jeep? a TOMY boy that was pretty. |
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| Eurosport94 | May 15 2015, 08:08 AM Post #13 |
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Station Wagon
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Yeah really, I can see these getting pocketed like crazy, unless they were behind a counter or in a display case. |
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| pjedsel | May 15 2015, 08:34 AM Post #14 |
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Muscle Car
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After my stop at the hospital I stopped at the newer TSC in Dickinson. Like most there is very little diecast. I am glad I did not make a special trip just to go to TSC as the racks were nearly empty - at least of the cars and trucks. A second rack was filled with the collect and play farm items but none of those were sale priced. I did grab a couple of the sale items (check the sale forum later today). |
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| b2young | May 15 2015, 01:48 PM Post #15 |
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Sad firefighter
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Everybody's descriptions of TS Companies' Ertl Collectibles/Tomy/JL "bins" sound like the locally-owned toy store's toy vehicles section, which I've mentioned before. To my knowledge, the store here in Boise is only the second location of this Idaho-owned business, which originated in the metropolis of Twin Falls, a little more than 100 miles SE of Boise. (The "chain" of two stores is named "Toy Town".) Mostly that toy section consists of large and small Ertl tractors and farm implements, Bruder large-scale trucks, and other ranch-oriented pickups and horse trailers (the really big toys...). They occasionally have a very few Tomica playsets or two-packs, and friction-powered tinplate automobiles and fighter jets/helicopters and that sort of region-appropriate playthings. My first encounter with the "Ertl Collectibles" brand (and the loose Tomica tractors in the rota-bins) was finding the recast Ertl Pierce aerial ladder in one of those bins, with some larger Schylling-type Type III ambulance friction toys. So, maybe this "toy store" that mostly has "educational" child toys and games and puzzles, is the best chance I'll have to find the elusive pink hearse.....guess I'll just have to continue my occasional visits to the store on my weekly rounds looking for the newest Matchbox. |
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| b2young | May 15 2015, 02:01 PM Post #16 |
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Sad firefighter
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Oh, John, I just have to tell you I had a rare wildland fire assignment in Dickinson, back in 1988 (yes, the infamous year that Yellowstone National Park was "destroyed" by all the fires..... ). I was on an Alaska helitack "module" (qualified crew without a dedicated/contract helicopter) brought down to the "lower 48" to staff one of the hundreds of helicopters hired to deal with all the fires that year.There had been a fire on the Roosevelt National Grasslands, and no available resources to handle it, so my module got sent there. We lasted a day before being re-assigned to the Clover-Mist fire in Yellowstone. (The grass fire was effectively OUT before we arrived in Dickinson for staging and assignment.) However, I still have a 'souvenir' from that assignment somewhere.....a pencil I liberated from an ND State Forestry pickup truck. Not to be mean, but from what little any of us knew about North Dakota at the time, the idea (based on what we saw in the Dickinson area) of a state "Forestry" service seemed a bit far-fetched. So, having a pencil engraved with the North Dakota State Forestry department name seemed like the ultimate irony to this old California fire dog..... |
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| pjedsel | May 15 2015, 05:06 PM Post #17 |
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Hey Blair - I remember that summer - we were having grassland and prairie fires all over the place. If I recall I think that was the year we had the fire by Flaxton that almost took out the town - I was still an EMT in those days and we were staged on the south side of town when we got word one of the fire engines had rolled and off we went in response. Remember the smoke and the smoke and the smoke. Fortunately no one was hurt but the truck was a loss. Winds changed and the town was spared.I think most of us smile a bit when we see the ND State Forestry Dept. trucks. We certainly are not known for trees. When I accepted the call to serve in ND the bishop asked if we liked trees and said "not that ND doesn't have any trees". We do have trees - that is how we know where the towns and farms are. It is also like having part of this state in the Mountain Time Zone but there were signs that explained that - they read "mountain removal project completed".
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| Milton Fox Racing | May 29 2015, 07:42 AM Post #18 |
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I dropped into our local TSC this past Tuesday (not knowing about the sale) and they are still having a clearence. Of course virtually nothing left though! I did find a Dodge (Racing Champions) pick up at 0.99$ and two 4 X 4 Tomy Nomads for 0.50$. Most of the remaining clearence items where missing their tires and or the wheels.![]()
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| pjedsel | May 29 2015, 09:28 AM Post #19 |
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Last week I picked up what little they had in Dickinson and offered them in the sale forum for a buck a piece. They went quick! Checked the Bismarck store and absolutely nothing - had hoped to get some of the Tomy marked fire trucks as heard from a few who didn't have that version. Oh well - as I travel next month and as I have time, I will stop at various stores and see what I might find. |
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| bobneumann | Jun 2 2015, 11:58 AM Post #20 |
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I would have hoped that this would mean a restocking with newer Tomica, even that John Deere combine that came out a year or two ago. There are a lot of Tomica models that could be sold on those racks at TSC but I don't know if they plan to do so. |
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| pjedsel | Jun 2 2015, 07:20 PM Post #21 |
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It is interesting that you mention the Tomica John Deere combine. I found those on ERTL blister cards at a Theisens Farm and Ranch Store in Cedar Rapids, IA back in March for under $6. It surprised me as it was not something I was expecting to find with the blister carded ERTL farm toys. They had an assortment of the collect and play but nothing new or different. |
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So maybe they're making space for the next round, like that pink 57 Chevy hearse someone posted before? Man, I want to get a few of those! I love that 57 Chevy hearse, I think I've got all the JL derivations. Anyway, just a heads-up of any of you are looking for more and cheaper.
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). I was on an Alaska helitack "module" (qualified crew without a dedicated/contract helicopter) brought down to the "lower 48" to staff one of the hundreds of helicopters hired to deal with all the fires that year.
Fortunately no one was hurt but the truck was a loss. Winds changed and the town was spared.
We do have trees - that is how we know where the towns and farms are. 

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