Hi from Banff!

[WolfenBaz]

Thanks! Yeah it might take a few weeks to organise it all, although my girlfriend will not be impressed that I spend my first month back in Australia playing with toys (she's Canadian). We haven't had a good season for snow this year, been warmer than usual and intermittent snow falls but there's enough to get by. I know Whistler/Blackcomb shuts down Whistler a month earlier to get the biking tracks ready for the summer.. you just will have to deal with all the other Aussies there haha.

[UltraMarginal]

Banff, nice!

My wife and I passed through Jasper and Banff on our Honeymoon (2009). I don't know how much snow you've seen in Australia but when we were at Blackcomb the week after the official season had ended and they still had the slopes open, people were complaining about the quality of the snow and I would happily say it beats our better mid winter snow.

welcome aboard

[WolfenBaz]

Thanks for the welcome!

Congrats on the honeymoon (belated) it really is a beautiful part of the world. I lived and worked in Jasper for two years as well. Yeah blackcomb mountain they keep open for another month usually to the end of may.

Any reason why the collection showcase part of the forum is blank? Do I need a higher ranking first?

[Trent]

Thanks for the welcome!

Congrats on the honeymoon (belated) it really is a beautiful part of the world. I lived and worked in Jasper for two years as well. Yeah blackcomb mountain they keep open for another month usually to the end of may.

Any reason why the collection showcase part of the forum is blank? Do I need a higher ranking first?

Hang around and participate, it won't take long for you to get bumped up a few ranks

[WolfenBaz]

Welcome to the boards.... I have a friend living in Banff, she loves it. Your a QLDer...... great to see (former Cairns boy). Bloody hot in QLD, North QLD expecting a Cyclone next week. Wait till you see the new toys, I think you will love MP 22 - Ultra Magnus...... Excellent engineering. I am loving this toy, so much fun.

Chat soon, enjoy the boards,

Dan

Thanks! I'm looking forward to the heat, and another cyclone? Hopefully the damage won't be too bad and everyone will be okay. The first time I missed home was in 2011 when Qld got hit by the floods. I felt like I needed to do something but was helpless because I was over here.

Magnus eh? I shall put him towards the top of the pile then. I'm looking forward to Tracks and I might double dip for the first time due to what he'll be supposedly coming with. I've only got Streak, YOTH Prime and Hasbro Sunstorm here to look at but now they're boxed up ready to ship. I'll have to take a pic of all the stuff I've bought when I get home before i dive in haha.

Hang around and participate, it won't take long for you to get bumped up a few ranks

Awesome, will do. I look forward to coming home and I just read in another thread about an online retailer based in Brisbane that should be able to satisfy my plastic addiction :P

[entourage7]

yeah man, 2011 was a big year, i missed the floods (great to see people come together, comm spirit), but had to go through yasi. the masterpiece line has really got its act together since mp-09, look forward to seeing the collection, enjoy yhe trip back home

[WolfenBaz]

yeah man, 2011 was a big year, i missed the floods (great to see people come together, comm spirit), but had to go through yasi. the masterpiece line has really got its act together since mp-09, look forward to seeing the collection, enjoy yhe trip back home

Haha yeah I look forward to seeing it too! :P I only managed to pick up the Hasbro trailerless version of Rodimus, saw the black version in a store in LA but was too much, maybe the red version I would have succumbed and bought it. I've been looking at people's collections and looking for suitable detolfs as I hate dust and more so, dusting. Ikea seems to have the most affordable but like the two I have at home now they fill up too quickly.

[griffin]

We haven't had a good season for snow this year, been warmer than usual and intermittent snow falls but there's enough to get by.

Did all those snow storms in the north-eastern states of the US not have visas to cross the border... ...as they've been having record snow right up to the Canadian border, so it is surprising to hear of a warmer than usual winter north of that.

[Jetfire in the sky]

Banff is west Griff

[griffin]

Western Canada then... well that spoils the joke.