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Good place to buy individual matchbox cars????

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JessM Thu 09-Feb-12 08:37:26

Where is a good place to buy individual matchbox cars please.
My grandson (just 4) in Sydney is yearning for a particular cars2 model and he had the bright idea that an email to nana might work...
Amazon etc only sell the big box sets.

Carol Thu 09-Feb-12 09:09:39

I saw those cars in Tesco at Christmas Jess. My 3 year old grandsons have a collection that I keep here at my house, so I occasionally pick up a couple to add to the drawer for them.

A few years ago, there was a particular Cars model that my older grandson couldn't get in this country, so when I went to California, I looked for it at Disneyland in Anaheim - couldn't get it there, either. In the end, I kept trying Ebay and got it from there. I notched up a lot of nana points on that occasion!!

glassortwo Thu 09-Feb-12 09:35:03

Jess Large Mothercare/ELC out of town stores carry the range and the have single models, our local store had all the single models from the range at Christmas.

whatisamashedupphrase Thu 09-Feb-12 09:40:32

Have you looked on e-bay? I've had some really good bargains from there, especially when the grandkids were collecting playmobile knights.

whatisamashedupphrase Thu 09-Feb-12 09:44:36

There are some buy-it-now on there, as well as a bidding lot. You could get one of those last minute bidding things on to it. Finishes in 40 minutes.

whatisamashedupphrase Thu 09-Feb-12 09:45:46

Ah! Didn't read OP carefully enough did I?! hmm Its a Cars 2 one you want.

Sorree!

As you were. smile

whatisamashedupphrase Thu 09-Feb-12 09:51:17

I got GS one from tesco direct for xmas. The one with gun things out of the sides. Can't remember the name of it to do a search on their webpage. Loads of stuff comes up for cars 2!

whatisamashedupphrase Thu 09-Feb-12 09:57:57

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Disney-Pixar-Cars-2-Finn-McMissile-/280821441036?pt=UK_Toys_Creative_Educational_RL&hash=item416243220c

Does it have to be Matchbox?

Seventimesfive Thu 09-Feb-12 10:09:36

I was getting the individual matchbox ones from a large Sainsburys a year or two ago when my GS was younger.

JessM Thu 09-Feb-12 18:08:03

Thanks folks
Tried Tesco and asda so far. Will work my way around the others... Tesco direct sounds like worth a try this evening. x