I actually saw one yesterday. It was a wooden railway lot for $500 usd for 72 engines and some of them were thomas wood. If thomas wood is included, why even sell it at all?
As a Tomy/Plarail/Trackmaster fan, it’s so sad and almost frustrating that they’re sold at unreasonable prices. You’re telling me that I can never get a Tomy Donald and Douglas set with two pieces of plastic shaped like mini snowplows under $950, or an Oliver under $150??? And I’m only talking about some of the ‘not rare’ ones… the real rare ones like TM Hector are just plain impossible to find. I wish people would sell them at reasonable prices…
I just can’t understand it myself.. I totally understand rarity and respect the people who try to truly collect Thomas stuff to the highest degree; but I just don’t know how a Thomas train can be over $300 if it was ever mass produced 😅
Collecting any kind of toys and wanting older products can get really annoying with these kinds of ridiculous prices because at the end of the day its almost always just a handful of plastic
You know what this reminds me of? That period from late 2016/early 2017 where people tried selling their Disney "Black Diamond" VHS tapes for thousands of dollars.
I can’t wait to save up my life savings to get a Tomy Oliver 😭, also as a Tomy / Trackmaster collector it sucks we have to pay so much man. Also I bought a sodor roundhouse for only 70$ new in box!
As a Transformers fan, the Transformers resale market isn't much better. A figure is missing a part? Hope you don't mind forking out like $50 for a replacement wing for your Starscream!
Honestly man it makes perfect sense hearing it, especially for the older ones I can’t even IMAGINE- 😭 I remember my friend needed a part for a Wheeljack once and just made his own after seeing the one he needed sell for I think $150?
@@ItsTrainBoy The newer figures aren't much better on the resale market, either. Netflix Soundwave, Earthrise Dirge/Ramjet, Earthrise Ironhide/Prowl, Velocitron Cosmos... Makes collecting hard at times especially if you miss out on a figure.
@@Its_Charlie_Young Thank god Hasbro is starting to take notice and doing reissues of those scalped figures. Legacy Dirge is a real kick in the balls to the resellers😂 Screw scalpers in any community😒
This is why I quit buying TWR products. It just kept getting ridiculous and I lost interest in the brand. Ironically it was right before the announcement of Thomas wood.
Trackmaster Douglas is expensive because he was never released singularly by Tomy himself. He was only release in the winter snowplow set or whatever. At least that's what google said. But I still don't know if that's reasonable or not. :) Edit: Same goes for Bash. He was only released in a set.
One time I was on eBay looking for a Tomy Oliver and I happened upon one that was, and I kid you not, OVER $1,000... "My bro helped me find an Oliver in the end btw :)"
Prices for the hornby models are mad. It's mainly because their models are no longer made and seem to be better quality than the Bachmann versions. I still have my Thomas Hornby model but it's from the early 1990's and has seen some action. Currently trying to get him up and running. I also have the mini Hornby Thomas which was one of Hornby's 040 chassis locomotives with a Thomas body on it, which came in the my first Thomas train set.
@@bentullett6068 For real man. I have a handful of Hornby Thomas stuff. The rarest one I have is Emily, and that’s it. It’s so damn stupid how they’ve sky rocketed in price. Especially Murdoch. His price tag makes me wanna throw up. 🤢🤢 I can’t tell you how much I’d love to have Murdoch, but sadly it ain’t gonna happen.
I seen some theories about listings like this that they're used to disguise money laundering. There was once a listing for a single Nerf dart, those things that you can buy in 20 packs for $10, that was listed as 1 million USD at one point. So that could be what's going on with some of these. But, more than likely, these sellers are just ignorant on what they have and how much it's actually worth
On the subject of rare Thomas items, I'm surprised that I still have a TWR bronze Diesel. He's still in good condition but I have no idea when I got him.
I remember getting the Thomas ultimate set when I was 6. It was 2012 and I lived in an apartment with my family. It came in a plastic bin being a second hand set. I remember my mom telling me that the set was rare and to take good care of it. I still have that set to this day but Mighty Mack’s powered coach doesn’t work. Still a fun play set though, full of good memories.
If you’re wondering why those Plarail Donald and Douglas toys are expensive, it’s because they came in a set with snowploughs which is very hard to find. And they have their snowploughs on.
The thing about The Plarail donald and Douglas is that Douglas was never released on his own in Japan and could only be obtained in The snowplow set. Classic Plarail marketing
You should see how much Plarail Douglas alone goes for, I once saw a listing of him that was around $500, and between 300 or 400 without Tender at that. Then I look at Trackmaster Douglas and get upset
9:46 on the topic of an engine like that, my family has a Peter Sam that looks like that and there was a Mike the Small Engine train from way back when that we have. I'm not sure how Peter Sam ended up like that. I will never know.
@@ItsTrainBoy hey trainboy I have found the listing on eBay for the tootle wooden railway train and I have left the seller a message on if I can make a offer for it 😀
And thats why here in Mexico we have something called "tianguis" or "mercado de pulgas" and whats the special of those places? Well . . . If you find you can get a RC Thomas for like .50 dollars or less of the lady selling It Is a friends of your mother
that Donald and Douglas is in fact pretty overpriced, going for like 500-600 at the moments, but its because Douglas was only made by Tomy in that one set
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“$10,000 for a troublesome truck?”
“With a white face Mr. Squidward. With a white face”
Mhm
Lmao
What about the balck face truck
@@ciarandaragh8676Wait that’s a thing?
This meme works so well
Fun fact: the Bachman Oliver often costs less then the TOMY one.
This should be illegal.
Ebay is still a wild west currently.
I got a Hornby one this month for less than I’ve seen the Tomy one go for.
@@TiasVsEverythingyet the hornby stuff is insane spencer & henry ate easily listed for £2-300, which is insane
@@baxter22071990yup
You can get bargains though here in Britain,very hard to do though. Got mine for £58.
The TWR listings are only getting more and more ridiculous. I've been seeing lots that are worth like 100 priced at 600 or more
It’s too rare to find a rare track master or wooded railway engine for 50 30 or 10 dollars
I found the twins each at 120 dollars
I actually saw one yesterday. It was a wooden railway lot for $500 usd for 72 engines and some of them were thomas wood. If thomas wood is included, why even sell it at all?
As a Tomy/Plarail/Trackmaster fan, it’s so sad and almost frustrating that they’re sold at unreasonable prices. You’re telling me that I can never get a Tomy Donald and Douglas set with two pieces of plastic shaped like mini snowplows under $950, or an Oliver under $150??? And I’m only talking about some of the ‘not rare’ ones… the real rare ones like TM Hector are just plain impossible to find. I wish people would sell them at reasonable prices…
I just can’t understand it myself.. I totally understand rarity and respect the people who try to truly collect Thomas stuff to the highest degree; but I just don’t know how a Thomas train can be over $300 if it was ever mass produced 😅
Ayo what makes TM Hector so rare? I have one in phenomenal condition
@@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho I guess it's because he was sold/produced for a short time and wasn't brought back when Mattel took over the brand.
As a wooden railway fan, I can relate. You have to pay 10,000 for a dead tree just because it has a white face 🤦🏼
@Jaiden Singleton I managed to get lucky and find one for cheap but it took me awhile to find
“Is that a dead sir Handel”
That lot hurt my soul more than the set being $1.000 dollars
I just wanna know how it even HAPPENS homie 😭
No kidding it seems like they took the main part of the toy off but still put a face right on the front of the firebox wtf😅
I once seen an ertl Percy with actual shit on it on eBay.
I SWEAR.
Collecting any kind of toys and wanting older products can get really annoying with these kinds of ridiculous prices because at the end of the day its almost always just a handful of plastic
as a lego collector this hits way too hard
@@trueblox9711 I also collect lego and my god I feel your pain 😭
I don’t know what’s funnier- these prices or TrainBoy’s jokes 🤣
His Jokes, In My Opinion
So someone has decided to make it 1$ more then the last,
Now we are here
Ps: How are these wood, steel and plastic be more expensive than a model
Lmao I wonder if the last listing was a mistype cuz they were tryna put $16.99 or something but they accidentally put $1699 ☠️☠️
💀💀
So shocked that he forgot to sensor himself like he did the other few times
Honestly I only really try to do it towards the beginning, it’s 50/50 when people like the whistle censor I find so there’s a little bit of both 😅
I like it uncensored
One of my friends went to a hobby shop recently, and they were selling a $200 dollar wooden Flying Scotsman. Things are out of hand.
You know what this reminds me of? That period from late 2016/early 2017 where people tried selling their Disney "Black Diamond" VHS tapes for thousands of dollars.
not a single moment to waste! bank fraud department cracked me up 😂
@Thomascollectibles I was the person who had bought the tootle wooden train 😊
9:52 I found one of these for only $50, it was second hand, had all the pieces and came with bonus engines and rolling stock
How?????
I never knew the roundhouse was rare, I got one in a huge tomy lot for 5$ at a yard sale
Why not also cover some Hornby/Bachmann/Tomix listings? Believe me, there are plenty of them out there asking for silly money.
I am the bane of my friend groups, I will complain about TWR listings for hours.
Glad to see we're not alone in this struggle lmao
Greetings from the Hot Wheels AcceleRacers fandom!
I can’t wait to save up my life savings to get a Tomy Oliver 😭, also as a Tomy / Trackmaster collector it sucks we have to pay so much man. Also I bought a sodor roundhouse for only 70$ new in box!
As a Transformers fan, the Transformers resale market isn't much better. A figure is missing a part? Hope you don't mind forking out like $50 for a replacement wing for your Starscream!
Honestly man it makes perfect sense hearing it, especially for the older ones I can’t even IMAGINE- 😭
I remember my friend needed a part for a Wheeljack once and just made his own after seeing the one he needed sell for I think $150?
@@ItsTrainBoy The newer figures aren't much better on the resale market, either.
Netflix Soundwave, Earthrise Dirge/Ramjet, Earthrise Ironhide/Prowl, Velocitron Cosmos...
Makes collecting hard at times especially if you miss out on a figure.
@@Its_Charlie_Young Thank god Hasbro is starting to take notice and doing reissues of those scalped figures. Legacy Dirge is a real kick in the balls to the resellers😂 Screw scalpers in any community😒
“These prices are outrageous!!!”
Someone somewhere at sometime.
6:44
i have this train table in my room rn and i can confirm, it is not worth $850.00
and +$150.00 shipping. . .
Same
When you showed the cave collapse tower, I legit choked on my drink. I bought my Firebird for less than that!
Tootle has a hole line of merch never knew that until I looked into it
my gold one is still in the box lol
You win homie 🤣
Bro bouta invest right here
This is why I quit buying TWR products. It just kept getting ridiculous and I lost interest in the brand. Ironically it was right before the announcement of Thomas wood.
Have You Seen LEGO Prices On Ebay?
Your Would Be Better Of Having A Stroke
6 views. 14 likes. 2 comments but it says there are 0.
yup this is youtube
Trackmaster Douglas is expensive because he was never released singularly by Tomy himself. He was only release in the winter snowplow set or whatever. At least that's what google said. But I still don't know if that's reasonable or not. :)
Edit: Same goes for Bash. He was only released in a set.
Tomy Douglas was released by himself in 2006, just not in Japan. Same goes for bill
@@ThatOneRedEngine Wasn't that Motor Road and Rail? Huh. Guess I was wrong.
@@CoolBlueDog same thing, everyone just calls it tomy
I got bash for 10 dollars
Like the Japan version? Very fortunate if you did!
9:40 what the hell happened to sir handel? was this pic taken in the middle of his boiler renewal?
bro i swear ebay sellers be gettin worse and worse💀 BUT WAIT its free shipping so its 100000% worth it ong
10:50 I'm going to buy it
(Edit: I bought it for 1,699.00 Dollars)
(Edit again: I'm going to sell it again for 30,999.00 Dollars)
One time I was on eBay looking for a Tomy Oliver and I happened upon one that was, and I kid you not, OVER $1,000...
"My bro helped me find an Oliver in the end btw :)"
Everyone: these prices are so expensive for a piece of wood..
Me: *they made a wooden railway version of Tootle the train...?*
Yes they did 😊
2:28 actually theresa mod you can turn percy it into a normal trackmaster that doesn't need the coach
5:19 what if he was butane fired then would you give the high price a pass
I kinda want that microphone knapford station now
*Me selling my soul to purchase TOMY Oliver*
I’ve seen a Hornby Murdoch going for $3,000 dollars on eBay once.
Prices for the hornby models are mad. It's mainly because their models are no longer made and seem to be better quality than the Bachmann versions. I still have my Thomas Hornby model but it's from the early 1990's and has seen some action. Currently trying to get him up and running. I also have the mini Hornby Thomas which was one of Hornby's 040 chassis locomotives with a Thomas body on it, which came in the my first Thomas train set.
@@bentullett6068 For real man. I have a handful of Hornby Thomas stuff. The rarest one I have is Emily, and that’s it. It’s so damn stupid how they’ve sky rocketed in price. Especially Murdoch. His price tag makes me wanna throw up. 🤢🤢
I can’t tell you how much I’d love to have Murdoch, but sadly it ain’t gonna happen.
3:18 I would buy it in a heartbeat,
IF I HAD $724.80 PLUS TAX!
Sir Handel had an accident escaping train prison after season 6 🙃
I seen some theories about listings like this that they're used to disguise money laundering. There was once a listing for a single Nerf dart, those things that you can buy in 20 packs for $10, that was listed as 1 million USD at one point. So that could be what's going on with some of these. But, more than likely, these sellers are just ignorant on what they have and how much it's actually worth
The prices are freaking outrages,! Don't worry, if I were to sell my trackmaster nothing would be over 60 dollars.
Guarantee that take along Mike is what upped the price by like $450 and I’m not sure it’s worth that much on it’s own, like $200 max maybe
I've recently got the itch for wooden railway here recently and the prices are crazy at the moment
On the subject of rare Thomas items, I'm surprised that I still have a TWR bronze Diesel. He's still in good condition but I have no idea when I got him.
Whoever listed that final listing should be scolded and locked the frick up in a straight jacket IMMEDIATELY.
What makes this 10 times funnier for me is I live in Australia, So real quick just double up all the prices.
As a fellow Aussie, owchies
I just can't explain the stupidity on these people who do REDUCULOUS PRICES on cheap wood,metal,and plastic
Second hand markets do be weird like that.
Just be glad that you weren't looking at Warhammer, that gets just as ridiculous, but much more often.
This video perfectly incapsulates everything I hate about collecting Thomas merch, and why I stopped collecting TOMY engines a month after I started.
I remember getting the Thomas ultimate set when I was 6. It was 2012 and I lived in an apartment with my family. It came in a plastic bin being a second hand set. I remember my mom telling me that the set was rare and to take good care of it. I still have that set to this day but Mighty Mack’s powered coach doesn’t work. Still a fun play set though, full of good memories.
Half of these gotta be money laundering ain’t no way somebody gonna legit put up a wooden torn up golden Thomas up for $500 and think it’s gonna sell
Bro
In poland items like this sell for so cheap
I got the shiny steam along thomas set for 12 dollars
I GOT A TRACKMASTER MONTY FOR 2 DOLLARS
Once I saw an eBay listing of three 1992 tenders of Henry, Gordon, and James. For $5,000.
I dare you to do it again
Seriously I kinda wanna see another one of these
I still have all my ERTL and Wooden Railway stuff from the early to mid 90s. I should probably see how much it's worth lol.
If you’re wondering why those Plarail Donald and Douglas toys are expensive, it’s because they came in a set with snowploughs which is very hard to find. And they have their snowploughs on.
You’ve just roasted the entire Thomas and Friends retail market in the most grounded yet hilarious way possible. 😂❤
Dam that tootle train would be great for a WR custom d16…
The thing about The Plarail donald and Douglas is that Douglas was never released on his own in Japan and could only be obtained in The snowplow set. Classic Plarail marketing
I got a tomy Oliver for $20
I've bought a 235 pound prototype and hornby Stepney*pain*
"Do any of these tender engines even have their tender!?" I'll give you an answer, no. They never do.
So annoying for a twr fan like me.
Thomas Ebay:
*stonks*
You should see how much Plarail Douglas alone goes for, I once saw a listing of him that was around $500, and between 300 or 400 without Tender at that. Then I look at Trackmaster Douglas and get upset
Kinda weird how a Hornby Thomas is like $400 but I found a hornby edward at one point for $50 no shipping 😑😑
true
For most of these prices, i would be be wanting a proper from the show 😆
Let’s all pool our money and buy the set with broken ass Percy
I wish I could buy a track master Lady but I cannot find one in this year
I swear, these people Price gouge way too much.
I thought there was tomy oliver but this is really funny
I once spent over $200 on 13 ERTL models that I was using for my series and I still have them today.
Nice adult swim reference in the intro
5:28 lmfao 🤣 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
5:39 The best Station Master of all time 👌
How do these types of listings exist? Who even thinks those are reasonable!
These are still better investments than NFT's. Just saying.
9:46 on the topic of an engine like that, my family has a Peter Sam that looks like that and there was a Mike the Small Engine train from way back when that we have. I'm not sure how Peter Sam ended up like that. I will never know.
2:43 i dont even think these are supposed to be rare like i have a golden diesel AND IT WAS CHEAP SO WTF IS THAT GUY ON 💀
are you saying my plarail collection is over 10k-
Apparently- 😭
Awesome video trainboy
Thank you homie :)
@@ItsTrainBoy you're welcome buddy
@@ItsTrainBoy hey trainboy I have found the listing on eBay for the tootle wooden railway train and I have left the seller a message on if I can make a offer for it 😀
@@ItsTrainBoy I have purchased the tootle train and book set today
That one rc Percy looks like the face anyone makes after Taco Bell
And thats why here in Mexico we have something called "tianguis" or "mercado de pulgas" and whats the special of those places?
Well . . . If you find you can get a RC Thomas for like .50 dollars or less of the lady selling It Is a friends of your mother
whats the song used at 0:05?
It’s Eye 2 Eye (Sharingan Bump).
There’s adjusting of inflation… and then there’s THIS.
Thanks, Trainboy! I now know what not to buy!
9:46 its John from awdry's mid sodor layout
G THE PRICES REALLY WENT UP I remember getting last year a ERTL Thomas form 1984 and a ERTL James form 1987 fir like 35 buck's
Christ alive...- I thought most scale model trains were overpriced (Coming from a Pla-Model guy)
Hornby Murdock are insane money, I’ve seen some listed at £1750😮
I used to now the Golden Railway Thomas as a kid, most of these are in horrible condition, considering, these were given to kids to play with
man, you have the golden learning curve thomas while I only have the metallic blue version.
I mean, any market is better than the crypto/NFT market.
I'd rather pay $1000 for a Tomy Oliver than an ugly ass looking monkey jpeg.
that Donald and Douglas is in fact pretty overpriced, going for like 500-600 at the moments, but its because Douglas was only made by Tomy in that one set
$10,000 for a troublesome truck! Gentlemen it's capitalism at its finest!
Only paid £60 to get a NIB white roof 1999 Rusty from Wisconsin, from Ebay. I don't feel so bad now.
"3D print the snowplow" it's not about having the thing at any capacity, it's about how value the original thing is and selling it for what it's worth