Diecast Model
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Originally posted by SGCar:
Hi, any idea where can I purchase e SBS n SBST DD models in Singapore?
Cheers.
Bro, i will be hitting 80M busmodel shop in HK, u want i get the SBS sv25 model for you, it's HKD298.00, saw it in December, bought bac 4 sets sold to SGBus forumnites...
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Originally posted by TIB537B:
On the last day of Feb (yesterday) i bought a new bus model - the Mercedes Benz Travego (O580). The Mercedes Benz Travego RHD is a high-deck luxury touring coach that was the newest addition to their coach family in 2006.
The Travego has 3 lengths available.
- Travego (max. 15 rows of seats, 12.14 metres in length and two axles),
- Travego M (max. 16 rows of seats, 12.96 metres in length and three axles)
- Travego L (max. 17 rows of seats, 13.99 metres in length and three axles).
This model is a Travego 12.14m version from Dickie -Spielzeug. In terms of accuracy and details, this model is a win for SGD$17.95 from Toys 'R' Us Paragon. I literally stumbled across this model when i was browsing through the model cars and MAN fire trucks while waiting to go church.
(pardon for the lighting issues and weird background -> my desk)
"quotes and extra information on the Travego Luxury Coach-> http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2006/07/05/013776.html
"The Travego - "masculine and progressive in appearance"..erm nope not the Gundam Virtue behind >.<
Doors open (main door, luggage compartment and rear door)
The Mercedes Benz logo at the top, with the Travego badge on the left, emphasising "the typical Mercedes-Benz dynamism with its enlarged Mercedes star."
The environmentally friendly Euro IV with "extremely low-emission and economical Euro 4 engines featuring the new BlueTec diesel technology based on SCR."
Another storage compartment for luggages.
The Travego's front - " the "face" of the coach below the familiar deep and inviting windscreen is now more sculpted, and the new front panel with air intake presents a three-dimensional appearance, has a curved upper edge and is visually more distinctive. All this, together the Mercedes star proudly displayed on a sculpted plinth, makes the front-end design reminiscent of a Mercedes-Benz passenger car"
Sweet replica detail of the front, including the Mercedes badge and Travego badge.
"A powerful roof-mounted air conditioning system. The most powerful of the systems available now has a maximum cooling capacity of 39 kW"
Extra sweet detail - a spare tyre!
The Travego O580 and the Citaro O530
Packaging
You can take out the roof aircon panel and view the interior..but so far im unable to take it out, and fearing a possibility i may damage the model.
Comparison to the Travego coach on the roads (images from wikipedia common)
some additional notes
- the wipers on some of the other models at Toy 'R' Us have the wipers not sticking to the screen. For most, it probably won't matter but i searched through the whole stocks there to find the one which the wipers are stuck to the screen.
- The front axle can move
- the rear view mirrors fixture are made from rubber-ish material, pretty flexible. It's unlike the Citaro's one which it's a plastic attachment that can easily break from the packaging. The mirror on the driver's side a flex abit due to the packaging.
- The Travego badge on the front of the bus as depicted from the packaging is a sticker. The actual model is literally printed on the air intake grille.
- Rims on wheels replicates very closely to the ones found on the actual Travego.
- Details on the rear quite close to the actual Travego coach, but may be missing some details. Still, the rear looks cool.
- The interior replicates quite closely to the actual Travego, including the seats for the passenger, the tour guide and the cockpit area for the driver.
- A license plate (sticker) from Germany (?) . The Citaro didn't have a license plate. Sweet detail :D
- There's 4 colours of Travego available at Toy 'R' Us Paragon instead of 3 depicted on the packaging ( Red Travego ad - Super racing, Blue Travego ad - Techno Cruiser, and Sliver Travego ad - Champion's National Team) The extra colour is Black, but i can't remember the ad. I got the sliver one because it matches the rims and looks stylish :D.
- Seems like if you remove the ads, you can actually see the details panel lines exactly replicating on the actual coach. I'd prefer my ads to stay :p.
- not sure where other places got sell. I'm on the lookout for such models too. Cheap toy buses that replicates the coaches and citybuses very closely including doors and axles that moves.
- This version has two radiator grilles near the rear of the bus. Some of the Travego have one.
Yep. A very nice Mercedes Benz bus model
. Recommended even though the packaging says it is a "toy". It's a coach model in disguise!
I have two small ones.
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Originally posted by krisgage:
mine , local buses collections
V nice!
btw last time where you bought the limited edition farecards?
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Originally posted by SGCar:
Hi, any idea where can I purchase e SBS n SBST DD models in Singapore?
Cheers.
A few years ago, i saw the SBST DD bus model (the twins packs ones) at 'sentosa cable car station souvenir shop'...
But the price very very expensive: $139.90!!!
& the NEL trains models also very expensive: $129.90!!!
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Originally posted by Acx1688:
Bro, i will be hitting 80M busmodel shop in HK, u want i get the SBS sv25 model for you, it's HKD298.00, saw it in December, bought bac 4 sets sold to SGBus forumnites...
Hi, do there sell the twin pack models? I mean the SBS and SBST DD models, I prefer those two.Cheers.
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Originally posted by sbst272:
A few years ago, i saw the SBST DD bus model (the twins packs ones) at 'sentosa cable car station souvenir shop'...
But the price very very expensive: $139.90!!!
& the NEL trains models also very expensive: $129.90!!!
Wow! That's really expensive. But I dun think they still selling right?
Cheers.
Originally posted by SBS8033D:oh, nvm.
Anyway, just want to confirm. is there such shop that sells transport-related models at Toa Payoh Int? I heard that someone said it here, and my friend went there, the whole interchange, but no avail.
Originally posted by SBS8033D:heard before they sell the sentosa bus lol. I go see the middle pages.
Hi, just went there yesterday evening. Went into the shop to see, no bus models, only cars. It's located opposite the cafe inside TPY Bus Int.
Anyone wanna buy the Sentosa bus can buy from me, I bought 3 pcs two years ago, so I can let go 2 pcs, S$10 each, C&C.
Cheers.
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Originally posted by SGCar:
Hi, do there sell the twin pack models? I mean the SBS and SBST DD models, I prefer those two.Cheers.
nev see the twin pack when i went in Dec, will be hunting down more shops this time hopefulli can find...
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Originally posted by Acx1688:
nev see the twin pack when i went in Dec, will be hunting down more shops this time hopefulli can find...
Ok, if you managed to hunt it down can kindly help me get it? When are you going again? Hope I still in time to join in the collections.Cheers.
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Originally posted by SGCar:
Ok, if you managed to hunt it down can kindly help me get it? When are you going again? Hope I still in time to join in the collections.Cheers.
PM me wat u need pls
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Originally posted by Acx1688:
Bro, i will be hitting 80M busmodel shop in HK, u want i get the SBS sv25 model for you, it's HKD298.00, saw it in December, bought bac 4 sets sold to SGBus forumnites...
means around $80 rite?
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Originally posted by SBS8033D:
means around $80 rite?
its sing dollar $58 -
Originally posted by Rk 2010:
its sing dollar $58
HK$298 is around SG$59.60 now.....It's cheaper to buy at HK model shops as compare to S'pore..
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Originally posted by HKFS88:
HK$298 is around SG$59.60 now.....It's cheaper to buy at HK model shops as compare to S'pore..
USD went up against SGD[almos evdae], it will be at prevailing rate...
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Before (SMRT livery)
After (B: Beck- Modern Gulit)
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Originally posted by TIB1234T:
Before (SMRT livery)
After (B: Beck- Modern Gulit)
I got 3 something like this de. 2 Silver and 1 blue. Haha. I only refurb the 2 silver.
1 -> SMRT livery w/o SMRT logo
1 -> nEbO ad at left, NTUC ad on the right. -
Originally posted by SBS8033D:
I got 3 something like this de. 2 Silver and 1 blue. Haha. I only refurb the 2 silver.
1 -> SMRT livery w/o SMRT logo
1 -> nEbO ad at left, NTUC ad on the right.
Thats nice. You made 1 of them PA. The other one with nEbO ads, i thought expired long time ago?? -
Originally posted by TIB1234T:
Thats nice. You made 1 of them PA. The other one with nEbO ads, i thought expired long time ago??Haha. lol. I got the flyers and pasted accordingly. Haha, luckily the flyers have large back areas, or else i gotta paste a lot of spare ones already.
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Originally posted by SBS8033D:
Haha. lol. I got the flyers and pasted accordingly. Haha, luckily the flyers have large back areas, or else i gotta paste a lot of spare ones already.
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hmm, guys i've been reading this old thread
http://zh.sgforums.com/forums/1279/topics/343013?amp%3Bpage=2
pic "stolen" from sbst272 :p
i recall seeing them at Toys 'R' Us. The most vivid NWFB bus number i remembered is the 970 on the bottom right (cuz 970 is the service passing by my house hah). I know from the thread it apparently was only sold in SG during 2002/03 ( was only in Sec 2 and got restriction cannot buy toys
.Bad news or good news..are there still any toy shops selling this? where can i find it (with abundant supplies left) and how much per bus? i remember its around $20.
btw, they're new world first bus's Dennis Tridents?
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Originally posted by TIB537B:
hmm, guys i've been reading this old thread
http://zh.sgforums.com/forums/1279/topics/343013?amp%3Bpage=2
pic "stolen" from sbst272 :p
i recall seeing them at Toys 'R' Us. The most vivid NWFB bus number i remembered is the 970 on the bottom right (cuz 970 is the service passing by my house hah). I know from the thread it apparently was only sold in SG during 2002/03 ( was only in Sec 2 and got restriction cannot buy toys
.Bad news or good news..are there still any toy shops selling this? where can i find it (with abundant supplies left) and how much per bus? i remember its around $20.
btw, they're new world first bus's Dennis Tridents?
DT3. Got DM5000 and ALX500 body. I have the svc 8P and 82 bus.
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Remote control Japan bus with almost everything that works (doors, signals etc)
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Originally posted by TIB537B:
hmm, guys i've been reading this old thread
http://zh.sgforums.com/forums/1279/topics/343013?amp%3Bpage=2
pic "stolen" from sbst272 :p
i recall seeing them at Toys 'R' Us. The most vivid NWFB bus number i remembered is the 970 on the bottom right (cuz 970 is the service passing by my house hah). I know from the thread it apparently was only sold in SG during 2002/03 ( was only in Sec 2 and got restriction cannot buy toys
.Bad news or good news..are there still any toy shops selling this? where can i find it (with abundant supplies left) and how much per bus? i remember its around $20.
btw, they're new world first bus's Dennis Tridents?
It's limited to 3000-5000 per model worldwide, so it is impossible to buy from shops now. -
Originally posted by TIB537B:
hmm, guys i've been reading this old thread
http://zh.sgforums.com/forums/1279/topics/343013?amp%3Bpage=2
pic "stolen" from sbst272 :p
hey, thts my bus on the top left of the pic! Remember my rusty old bus ive shown u all?
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Originally posted by TIB537B:
hmm, guys i've been reading this old thread
http://zh.sgforums.com/forums/1279/topics/343013?amp%3Bpage=2
pic "stolen" from sbst272 :p
i recall seeing them at Toys 'R' Us. The most vivid NWFB bus number i remembered is the 970 on the bottom right (cuz 970 is the service passing by my house hah). I know from the thread it apparently was only sold in SG during 2002/03 ( was only in Sec 2 and got restriction cannot buy toys
.Bad news or good news..are there still any toy shops selling this? where can i find it (with abundant supplies left) and how much per bus? i remember its around $20.
btw, they're new world first bus's Dennis Tridents?
Sorry a bad news for you...
Yesterday afternoon i went to the "Tai seng" toy shop & i ask the lady boss about the hong kong NWFB toy bus model then she said: Sorry, no more already...
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Originally posted by sbst272:
Sorry a bad news for you...
Yesterday afternoon i went to the "Tai seng" toy shop & i ask the lady boss about the hong kong NWFB toy bus model then she said: Sorry, no more already...
Fyi, i bought the old bus when i was in Primay 2 (2003)..