Look what I found at the dollar store...

[DrewE]

After keeping my eyes open for something like it for about five years, I finally found this...and at the dollar store even, so plenty affordable.



And this is why I was looking for one of them:



Merry Christmas to me!

(Interestingly, the die-cast metal part is basically just the cab and a sort of backbone along the bottom of the toy, while the plastic part is the whole camper body. That struck me as an unusually realistic construction technique!)

[DrewE]

goreds2 wrote:

Pretty cool - Which dollar store, Family Dollar, Dollar General or Dollar Tree?

It came from a Dollar Tree.

[goreds2]

DrewE wrote:
After keeping my eyes open for something like it for about five years, I finally found this...and at the dollar store even, so plenty affordable.

Merry Christmas to me!

(Interestingly, the die-cast metal part is basically just the cab and a sort of backbone along the bottom of the toy, while the plastic part is the whole camper body. That struck me as an unusually realistic construction technique!)

Pretty cool - Which dollar store, Family Dollar, Dollar General or Dollar Tree?

[Naio]

cute as two buttons!

[DrewE]

bobndot wrote:
Drew, do you have any idea of how much that little camper and trailer is worth unopened in its original package ? :B

As a matter of fact, I do, at least roughly speaking. It has a street price of about $1.00 (plus tax) these days in the original, unopened package. :C

[bobndot]

Drew, do you have any idea of how much that little camper and trailer is worth unopened in its original package ? :B

[DutchmenSport]

It's the little things in life that bring the greatest joy! Congrats on your new find. Happy Camping!

[Lwiddis]

What's that truck's payload?

[Oasisbob]

And to think, I thought I would never be able to afford a new rig? How much was it? LOL Merry Christmas

[DrewE]

IAMICHABOD wrote:
Should go over big in Australia,being that the door is on the correct side for them :B

You likely can't see it in the pictures, but the steering wheel is on the left side, so that would be not so great in Australia.

There is an additional entry door on the back of the unit that looks as though it would run afoul of the trailer hitch pin, though in real life the hitch pin would be relatively smaller. Evidently it's not based on any specific actual RV, but rather a rough imagined composite of several...and that's plenty good enough for my keychain.

[IAMICHABOD]

Should go over big in Australia,being that the door is on the correct side for them :B