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Quote Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev View Post
I live in the bush. No toy stores so no chance to go hunting for ‘bargians’. It’s either order online or don’t get the toy
I recently went toy hunting down the South Coast and indeed stores were few and far between. I always forget that Target Country have no toy sections.

This got me thinking... how did people living in the country collect Transformers before online shopping? It's honestly something that I've never thought of before - the joys of never having lived in rural Australia. I did live in rural Japan, but even country Japan has pretty good public transport that I was able to travel to shopping centres easily enough. And where I was living wasn't too remote -- i.e. it took me about 1.5h to get to Tokyo. It's not like living in Hakone where I'm right smack in the middle of nowhere with bugger all shops around (although it was rural enough that there were some homes with drop-toilets!). And I have seen really remote properties in Australia where there are no other signs of humanity for kilometres around.

But yeah, I felt really frustrated toy hunting around Nowra and Kiama, and that's with the luxury of online shopping being a thing.