Trackmaster Dennis variation

They seem to be factory rejects...printing, stickers, packaging, and production mistakes, but also just the shoddy ones too...
Here's another one that looks interesting with a simple change in an appointment:

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They seem to be factory rejects...printing, stickers, packaging, and production mistakes, but also just the shoddy ones too...
Here's another one that looks interesting with a simple change in an appointment:

Fisher Price Duncan

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They seem to be factory rejects...printing, stickers, packaging, and production mistakes, but also just the shoddy ones too...
Here's another one that looks interesting with a simple change in an appointment:

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Fisher Price Duncan?(2011)

Our friend Bkiv sent me a listing today and I noticed something odd about this Dennis!! It seems there is a limited batch of these variations listed on eBay right now!! Can anyone see what is different???

1) The wheels are the wrong colour, and are meant to have a Bulleid Firth Brown texture like Neville's (drop-shaped holes instead of spokes).
2) The siderods are missing the special part that's meant to give the allusion that they're connected to the crankshaft.

[ripley802]

Then was it this one? http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Thomas-frien...OSwuAVWyBq~

Yep, that's the seller.

I should've noticed this before. I always thought the wheel color looked off on these listings, but since I didn't know much about early Trackmaster I didn't think much of it... I wonder now if it actually is a fine, working non-knockoff engine that's just been tinkered with, or a cheap clone.
I probably should've known that something was up anyway, since Dennis does have one-of-a-kind siderods, but I had completely forgotten that. Now, why would honger_hehe be selling some genuine new items as well as cheap knockoffs and/or modded engines???