These are they. This commercial image is
from an old Amazon sales site which
I tried to take advantage of, only to find they didn't ship outside the
'States; which makes you wonder A) what's the point of an 'Internet' if it's
not actually integrated? And B) what's the point of all these clever algorithms
if they can't tell when not to show an ad' or search-result in a zone where
it's invalid?
Anyway; as I remember it - it was a year or
three ago now - they were basically selling a gum-ball restock bag of them
(about 25/30 or maybe 50/60 I can't recall?) or shop-stock box (the packaging
wasn't shown) as 'party favours', bulk, for less than the price of a coffee at
Starbucks! Lesson - if it's too good to be true - it usually is!
They are more commonly found associated
with importer's A&A Global
International who import rack toys and supply vendors with gum-ball machine
refills.
My 'current sample' (as at January 2016) is
not the largest, I'm missing the guy with the short sword and have a limited
colour-set - I hope I have a few more in storage (I think, or I should have -
they may be too modern?) with some of the other colours &etc.
There are six poses in total and they come
in a wide range of colours, in what seems to have been at least two major
production tranches, the above two images are the most recent issue and may
still be current in a party or joke shop near you . . . or your local gum-ball
capsule machine!
Quick comparison shot - Redbox on the left and an unknown probably
also a capsule/gum-ball 'thingy' in the middle (similar to but not Panosh; possibly carried - undecorated - by Toy Smith?), with one of the A&A Global's on the right.
These - heavily cropped images from
feebleBay - are from gum-ball machine insert/window cards and are all marked A&A Global. In the middle you can
see the earlier tranche was in more 'girly' or pastel colour-ways. However -
recently, they have been copied in a size better suited to large scale
collectors, and it is those Brian sent to the Blog and which I will post this
afternoon, with other Ninja-related stuff.
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I
have a new time-wasting game! Two of the above images were loaded on the blog two
years ago (in the big January 'up-at-the-library' posting I mentioned at the
time) and I never got round to editing the text, needing to find them on the
dongles to sort this post out I searched for them and it turns out the camera
recycles the four figures codes; well, it would have to with a four-digit
limit, wouldn't it! But it's not something I'd ever needed to give any thought
to! And it appears I have taken (or 'kept' - around 2/3rds of every photo-shoot
get deleted) no less than four 7012's!
And
- random as they are - they manage to cover almost everything plastic;
Large
and small scale; ethylene, polystyrene and PVC; civilian and military; figures
and vehicles; historical, modern, and sports; big toys, rack toys, capsule toys
and cake decorations; friction-motorised; painted, unpainted and transfers;
branded and unbranded, there's even a hint of accessory/scenery with the goal
posts . . . but weirdly - they are all Hong Kong/China!
A
Number picked at random - New Game!
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