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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 06/08/2025

i have all of digital tomica now. actually i don't have the physical silver nissan fairlady tomica diecast car that came with the original run of digital tomica

the blue and white cover of the jewel case for the first and only digital plarail vehicle expansion pack, with the included fire truck, ambulances, tow truck, and highway patrol car shown at an angle

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 16/03/2025

i have all of digital plarail (and most of digital tomica) now

several pc cd-rom boxes spread on a grey carpet in an arc. the top row has the original larger release of the base digital plarail game, the first three expansions in slim cardboard sleeves, and the first boxed expansion with jewel case inside as well as the thomas the tank engine combination pack with the first licensed expansion alongside the base game as well as separate copies of the two thomas packa in boxes. the second row contains two digital plarail and tomica dx hard plastic cases with the player's guidebook with demo cd sitting on top as well as the third train expansion, the only building pack, and a copy of the first thomas expansion in its jewel case. the bottom row has a few copies of both digital plarail and tomica in their jewel cases. the covers of the boxes show the trains or accessories included

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 04/02/2025

i'm driving the tohoku joetsu shinkansen

a picture of a somewhat beat-up box of the plarail 1984 radio control i'm a driver tohoku joetsu shinkansen set. the box has a light blue stripe across the top with the title of the set and one down the left with the contents. a rectangle shows the contents of the set, a radio control 200 series shinkansen on an oval layout with tunnel, station, and accessories. the rest of the box shows a much larger promotional setup with the set incorporated into the center, with many shaking blue train tracks traversing around through stations and up bridges with different colorful three-car japanese trains populating them

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 01/02/2025

goodbye yellow brick road has gotta be in my top five albums somewhere

a photograph of the end of an eight track tape of elton john's goodbye yellow brick road sticking out of a black eight track recorder with silver trim. the "2" program indicator in the second of four silver-lined boxes above the tape slot is lit

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 18/01/2025

this is about you, still-sealed low-serial-number plarail fan club exclusive 40th anniversary album that i bought because it was a good price but cannot bring myself to open

a black box that is open to reveal five plarail trains, a yellow and black fictional steam locomotive and a red european-style steam engine with yellow freight cars, reproductions of less-common color variations of early plarail trains, a black japanese d-51 steam locomotive with two blue passenger cars, a three-car 0-series shinkansen with lit nose cone, and a more true-to-life color variant of the 500 series shinkansen than was in the regular plarail range at the time

the top of the box at an angle with the protective thin translucent sheet on top, surrounded by other train toys with a tomix n scale train pack and an early 1970s plarail box featuring four small freight cars

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 13/01/2025

i pulled a second controller out of one of my thomas sets, i'm supposed to get a bunch more tomix stuff in the mail tomorrow but i probably won't set any of it up until next weekend

a tomix model train set up on carpet, a figure eight with elevated curves and a red truss bridge forming the cross of the eight sits to the left of an oval with two wired switches connecting them, a yard with a few more unpowered switches hold stationary trains while a green and orange tokai type train cross the bridge and a black steam locomotive with freight cars rounds the oval

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 12/01/2025

oh right. i also daily drive one of these

an ibm model f keyboard, the type used with the original ibm pc and pc xt in the 1980s. it has a qwerty layout for its primary keys but other portions differ from modern keyboards such as ten function keys instead of 12 arranged in two columns to the left of the main keyboard instead of in one row above, the numeric keypad being jutted right up against a tall, skinny enter key and the right side of the keyboard, with an asterisk/print screen key below enter with a wide delete, zero, and the capslock key taking up the rest of the space where a set of arrow keys would typically appear. on the other side of the wide space bar is the alt key where control typically sits today, with control in place of caps lock

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 10/01/2025

huh, if i actually post things then people can actually interact with them. if you haven't checked it out, i am often adding more japanese toy trains to my website www.fallinsideahole.com/updates.html

three silver subway-style trains pass each other on a multi-level plastic plarail train set, with two trains on a two-track elevated line and a third on the lower line that travels under the upper lines. a grey road system curves along the inside of the lower track with a red suv turning the corner

a loop of several track sections making up a small plastic thomas the tank engine set. several engines sit at various points around the oval, some with carriages trailing behind. the track sections are mostly green and brown and have trackside accessories like stations, a water tower, and a cow. one track section includes a turntable and siding and another has a red drawbridge

the cover of a 1980s plarail set featuring the white and green 200 series shinkansen. the box is mostly yellow with a cartoon train traveling through a green countryside background at the bottom and blue clouds around the three plastic windows showing the three cars of the included train

an old green plarail electric commuter train, curved to show the yellow wheels and two unpowered cars trailing the lead power car, with metal power switch hanging out the front

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 10/01/2025

started playing with some of my japanese n scale trains

an n scale (small) model train track set up on a carpeted floor. the main portion of the track forms a figure eight with sloping curves leading to a trestle bridge crossing the perpendicular lower track. a switch track leads over to another loop of track. some boxes, loose track, and trains in plastic cases sit around the track. a silver electric locomotive with lit headlights pulls a blue passenger train up the back of the figure eight heading towards the bridge. a steam locomotive sits on the branch connecting the figure eight and the loop

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 10/12/2024

i have three game boys in the box and two of them don't even count

three cardboard boxes on a carpet, from left to right: the japanese box for the super game boy, featuring a rainbow-backed illustration of a stylized super game boy cartridge; the pink hello kitty-covered box of a japan-only pink game boy pocket with hello kitty's face and sanrio graphics as well as a pack in game; and the box for the japan-only super game boy 2, showing the translucent blue cartridge at an angle with both a red and green led shining through the plastic

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 29/11/2024

what the fuck do you mean tumbling fishing choo choo

a colorful plastic train toy with an odd looping track and little black steam locomotive of one of the common types of mall kiosk and tourist trap type "tumbling loco" toys. this version incorporates a large platform turntable at one of the reversing loops of the toy that has a version of the traditionally wind-up magnetic fishing game that instead only operates while the train is actively traveling around that portion of the loop

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 23/11/2024

thrifting today, an old robotix set from milton-bradley, linux in a box, some vhs tapes and a few eight tracks from artists you might actually want to listen to (and one of the ford quad demo tapes)

a spread of items on a carpet including a robotix plastic construction set, a copy of open linux in a white and yellow box, several vhs tapes including an episode of star trek: the next generation and three herbie the love bug movies, and four eight track tapes

aerosmith's night in the ruts, yes' going for the one, and ringo starr's ringo on eight track tape

a robotix plastic construction set with its box lid above its open inner tray of parts. the components vary in size and mostly follow a black and grey color scheme, a motor unit and battery box, and a sci-fi theme (and greebling)

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 20/11/2024

taught the algorithm that i am aware of thomas the tank engine (i don't like him) and now i have to mute half a dozen teenage tankies every time i open this app

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 14/11/2024

here's a telefunken-branded vcr (video cassette recording) tape that's such a pure chrome mix that it smells exactly like a fresh box of crayola crayons

the vcr cassette out of its box and held at a slight angle. the cassette is an almost-square cartridge with an orange label. the label has a previous recording struck through and allegidly currently contains a recording related to holland deutschland as written on it most recently. a clear window in the left middle portion of the label shows the empty upper tape reel.

the rear and top of the tape at an angle, with the tape door open. a strip of tape travels from the top left to bottom right of the cassette. the concentric spools for the two stacked tape reels inside can be seen in the middle of the rear of the cartridge

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 11/11/2024

the bugs are all stickers too lol

the rear of the plastic wrapper, showing a yellow-background sheet of stickers including shrek, donkey, fiona, puss in boots, and also four bugs

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 11/11/2024

i found this sealed packet of 20 year old shrek 2 stickers today

a plastic wrapper with a silver strip containing a sheet of blue-background shrek 2 stickers, including shrek and donkey, fiona, and puss in boots

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 09/11/2024

found more tapes than i was expecting today

a collection of books, vhs tapes, and some other objects on a carpet floor. there are three different rows of mostly home-recorded tapes with a few larger plastic shells and some thomas the tank engine tapes at the bottom. a few floppy disks, cassette tapes, and cd roms as well as two remote controls and a vcr tipped onto its back are also pictured. a mousepad attachment for a keyboard tray and a brown package of color slides are also pictured

the rows of vhs tapes, showing some pan-am related tapes and some other short-run, minor-interest tapes in the first row. the second row has handwritten labels facing out, with some containing the o.c. on fox, wwf matches, and that 70s show. the third row is showing the branded side of the tape spines, with several kodak tapes as well as some from tdk, sony, maxell, and basf. two remote controls from sony, one for a dvd player and the other a pan-tilt-zoom camera setup, as well as five thomas the tank engine tapes are seen at the bottom

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 05/11/2024

printing important stuff on the game boy

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 04/11/2024

a ha! i wonder what percentage of trains represented in densha de go i have the plarail equivalent of...

the cartridge for densha de go 2, a train driving simulator, for game boy color. the cartridge is translucent and shows part of the board inside and the label has the game boy color name up the side and angled shots of four different japanese trains as well as the name of the game in the main area

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 01/11/2024

whenever i see one of these fire department connection signs without fail my brain supplies "floppy drive controller" instead

a red sign on the side of a building that says FDC in white letters

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 31/10/2024

continuing my quest to locate an example (or literally any other mention of) 1975's big bucket, a proto-big loader style "construction site" automaton of currently unknown hong kong make

the only known picture of big bucket, from the 1975 wards catalogue. the toy in a motorized trackway toy with a loop of blue roadway that increases in elevation around the circuit, ending at a lift that drops the dump truck traversing the path back down. the elevator has a trough that forms a loading section that deposits a ball into the truck as it passes. parts of the elevator and an unloading bay on the other side of the circuit interact to load a ball into the dump truck for it to drive around and tip out on the other end, with the weight of the truck pulling the elevator down moving the previously deposited ball up and into the loading trough above. a red callout box says the 9.99 price is a fabulous value.

the toys description in the 1975 wards catalogue, which reads "big bucket - an automatic loading and unloading yard. automatic 3 5/8 x 1 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. high dump truck goes around 50 in. circumference track to pick up a plastic ball at the loading tower and drop it off at the unloading ramp only to do it all over again. ball goes under track ramp to be picked up by the big bucket. inc.: truck, 3 balls, Big Bucket, track, and easy-to-follow assembly instructions. Track is 16 1/2 x 14 in. when assembled. uses 2 "aa" batteries, see pg. 369. from hong kong.

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 30/10/2024

thinking about her again. lovely little mail car

a cute yellow toy train carriage. the door on the side is open to reveal a brown parcel. the side of the van has a light blue stripe along the bottom and two small illustrations of birds holding envelopes. the name of the train system, plarail, is written in red on the side of the van in japanese (プラレール)

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 24/10/2024

a lot to be said about luigi first appearing in the game and watch mario bros. game wherein mario and luigi are tasked with an ever-increasing workload loading trucks in a factory until they eventually fail and are fired

an open mario bros. game and watch lcd game. the handheld opens like a book with a screen on each side. the left screen shows luigi and an emtpy truck and a series of conveyor belts that go across the hinge to the other screen. a red rocker switch under the screen controls luigi up and down. the right screen has the other side of the conveyor belts and also shows mario with his head down getting yelled at by the brothers' boss. there is a second red switch under the right screen for moving mario

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 23/10/2024

people are posting nerd shelves eh

two black bookcases covered in a mix of video tapes, cameras, video games, toy trains, and other things

just the left bookcase. on top are several cameras. video tapes fill most of the top three shelves, with trains and other toys in front and on top. the third shelf is mostly star trek tapes. the shelf under that has audio cassettes on it

the right bookshelf. video and still cameras, an eight track deck, and a spinning red dome light (currently off) sit on top. the top shelf has a mix of video tapes, books, and a few video games. the next shelf down is mostly nintendo ds games, with a few older boxed games as well as several toy trains. below that is another shelf of video tapes, with a small portable sony betamax deck and some more toy trains. below that is another shelf of video tapes

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 23/10/2024

scanned the receipt from the boxed copy of pokemon crystal i found at the recycling center years ago

a faded and crumpled receipt that has been flattened out and scanned from the grocery/department store meijer. it is dated august 9th 2001 at just after 5:30pm. the only item on the receipt is a copy of pokemon crystal for 27.88 with 1.67 tax. the original buyer paid five dollars in cash and the rest on a debit card

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 18/10/2024

every few months i learn some new weird thing about tomy but the most random and bewildering semi-recent one was finding out they made multiple "packman" toys in the 70s before the video game

a 1970s tomy water game with a yellow base and clear tank containing a translucent yellow disc-faced figure that swings his arm and opens his mouth to catch rings pushed by the jet of water that results from pressing the toy's button. the box for the toy, which is white and blue with japanese text on the front, shows an illustration of the guy catching rings

the cover of the box for the 1970s tomy "packman" board game, exported as mr. mouth. the cover has japanese text and a round yellow flying saucer-shapes plastic guy with an open mouth containing several colored plastic discs inside. he has a sticker that gives him two eyes

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 16/10/2024

mario world rotates in and out of my favorite game of all time spot depending on how recently i've played it, i try to beat all 96 exits every few years - i spent hours reading my dad's prima guide learning the tricks and secrets

the cover of the book super mario world game secrets, an early prima strategy guide. the cover has a geometic 90s style with green text in a purple box with turquoise accents and smaller colored text in similar green, yellow, and purple shapes on a black background

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 09/10/2024

they're still on the quantums (and i think more widespread in europe/the uk) and now even in color i'm one of those sickos who keeps random batteries around but extra worse because a lot of them are dead and i know it

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 09/10/2024

i have some 20 year old powercheck d cells that still have a bit of a charge hanging around

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 09/10/2024

dug up one of the photos from when i ran some disk checker on one of the worst-but-still-functioning old hard drives i have - if i remember right this is the esdi drive in a ps/2 model 50z. at one point it told me to reinsert the disk like it was checking a floppy and i'd yanked it or something

a photograph of a crt computer monitor showing a hard drive checker program. the upper two thirds of the screen show a red background with different characters representing where data is stored, free, and where the disk's sectors are marked bad. in the middle of this section is a blue box saying the disk has been verified and to press any key to return to the menu. a large amount of the disk is marked out in xs. the bottom portion of the screen has text saying certain clusters of the disk are already marked out.

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 28/09/2024

who was submitting high scores in the 80s under the model number of a sony betamax vcr with built in pcm processor

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 27/09/2024

and rereleased all their packman toys in pac-man versions lol. apparently the deal was just for the arcade game name which is why the early official japanese ports are not named puckman/pac-man until tomy's claim lapsed around 1984, a decade after jeje first came out

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 27/09/2024

this thing definitely has roots in the 1970s tomy jeje/パックマン貯金箱, which is also where the basic design of pac-man originated - tomy released at least three different "packman" products before namco's puckman, and when namco contacted tomy about it tomy picked up the japanese toy rights

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 27/09/2024

caught it right at 41000 total page views

a screenshot of the website www.fallinsideahole.com showing 41000 on the hit counter at the bottom

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 21/09/2024

i keep backups of all my important pokemon saves on my pelican master brain

a translucent purple game boy color with a save backup menu on screen. entries are related to different game boy pokemon games like "japan gold" or "red151". a translucent cartridge sticks out of the top with a purple master brain sticker on it

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fallinsideahole @fallinsideahole.com · 18/09/2024

huh. is trinicon trinikonトリニコン in japan? as in nikon, who are mentioned here as having developed them? i don't think i was aware of nikon being involved in sony's electron gun camera tubes