Travel Toy? Collectible? One never knows!

A month or so ago, we received an order from the Netherlands for a very specific ROBOT mini-pinball (back row in the above photo) from Schylling toys. This item is usually sold assorted (and we happily take requests, but we don't always have the same mix as the stock photos we receive!) The customer was quite adamant that the choice HAD to be the ROBOT, there was not other one she was interested in. Thankfully, we had plenty. The customer's second concern was that the minimum shipping cost was $6.95 for her $1.99 item, which was NOT going overseas from Maine, but to California.

A few emails later, we worked out a total of about $4 for the order (including the actual shipping charges for this small, light item), and off it went to California.

Recently, we received another email from the pinball customer, as well as a photo of the Robot Pinball in it's new home.
Can you spot the game? We thought this was great and just had to share. One never knows where our initially intended as a "travel activity" will end up. We do know, however, that the little Robot has a much grander life than it did in the 'assorted' box, and is probably 'traveling happy on its imaginary journeys' with its display companions!

Thanks again to our new friends from the Netherlands, and their excellent 'collection'.

Have a cool photo of one of our products, in a home or on a 'big' travel adventure? We'd love to hear about it, and maybe your story will be the next one in our BLOG!