GreenMax - New Releases

[bc6]

Has anyone reserved the GreenMax Multiple Tie Tamper 09-16 Totetsu Kogyo Color (w/Motor) (Model Train yet?

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11061614

[cteno4]

Damn and a painted MOW! Stepping on two of my most vulnerable points! That’s not fair! Resistance may be futile…

 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11061612?utm_source=mkt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20240214_1000104_summary01&utm_content=https://www.1999.co.jp/itbig106/11061613.jpg_img_en
 

jeff

[bc6]

Hobby Search opened up pre-orders on the Multiple Tie Tamper 09-16 Totetsu Kogyo Color (w/Motor) (Model Train)
today just in case anyone is interested, 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11061614

[bc6]

Has anyone heard any updates on the multiple tie tamper it was supposed to be out at the end of August.

Hobby Search looks like the multiple tie tamper may be arriving October of 2024.

Edited September 4, 2024 by bc6

[bill937ca]

HS now says Oct.

[bc6]

Hobby Search has the J.R. East Type KUMOYA145-100 (KUMOYA145-118 for pre-order.

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11124470

[Kamome]

Greenmax Tom and Jerry Hankyu sets. Seem exclusive to the Hankyu train shop. 

 

https://www.hankyudensha-shop.com/products/4946950901119

[Kingmeow]

If it were only cheaper.  😞

[disturbman]

Well, that is the cheapest it will ever be. Once it goes on the second hand market, price will climb 😉

GM is also making the Kintetsu Osaka Expo-wrapped trains.

https://ngauge.jp/gm202506_info/

[Lessigen]

2 hours ago, disturbman said:

Well, that is the cheapest it will ever be. Once it goes on the second hand market, price will climb 😉

GM is also making the Kintetsu Osaka Expo-wrapped trains.

https://ngauge.jp/gm202506_info/

I did see that, I cried a bit inside with that price tag. Looks great, but ¥48,180 for a 6-car set is a really tough pill to swallow.

[cteno4]

Normally I'm pre-hyped for wrapped trains, especially for something like expo, but I’m pretty underwhelmed by the wrapping design and at that price tag not inclined go jump on it. Luckily I have many wrapped trains with more stunning designs on them… wish they could have done something a bit more intriguing than just some bright color splotches and the little mutant mascot [im sure there is an interesting back story to the chap, but multi eyed blob headed creature seems a bit odd choice with recent issues with Fukushima releases] kind of mutes something as diverse as an expo. It almost feels like there was a decision making problem and something very generic was then just done as most wrapped trains in japan have a lot of creativity, thought, and design in them. Maybe too many fingers in the soup with an expo. But alas expos are not the spectacle they once were. One of my favorite exhibit jobs was the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, that was stunning.

 

jeff

[brill27mcb]

You built an exhibit for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition? Jeff, you never cease to amaze me!!  😄😄

 

Rich K.  🤪

[bill937ca]

4 hours ago, cteno4 said:

 But alas expos are not the spectacle they once were. 

 

jeff

Awe. Spectacle like the 1933 Chicago Century of Progress?

 

[cteno4]

Lol, not sure if it’s warranted rich! Yes it was for the Early California Pioneers Society in San Francisco, up for about 8 years until they changed buildings.

 

Exhibit/multimedia/education design was my profession for 3+ decades after i got out of science [although a lot of the exhibit stuff was science education as well]. I think the PPIE was the most fun of all the exhibits as it was just so astounding what they built for the exposition. Most all was then torn down shortly after it closed! Just wild. It was so hard in a small exhibit to show the extent of the buildings, displays, art, gardens, etc they did physically i did an computer interactive to try to provide a lot of pictures of all these things for folks to dig deeper on something that caught their interest in the exhibit and as i started diving into all the pictures with the curator i ended up pulling over a thousand images into the program. Was a great hit and folks would stand there for a half an hour and more looking at all the photos—really sucked folks in!

 

jeff