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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

A is for All Hallows' Eve - Haunted House

I found this among a pile of similar press-out card booklets, in a charity shop (Help the Aged/Age Concern) back in the summer, from the size of the pile they were being sold as clearance, probably donated by Poundland when they took over 99p Stores, and taking a while to filter through to the shops.

99p Stores; Card Board; Card Board Toys; Card Buildings; Card Flats; Cardboard; Cardboard Flat Figures; Dr. Frankenstein's Monster; Ent; Hag; Halloween Flats; Halloween Toys; Haunted House; Haunted Tree; Headless Zombie; Knife-Murderer; Living Tree; Make Up Card Models; Make Your Own; Mummy; PMS; Serial-Killer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vampire; Witch;
Branded to PMS, there was also a nice football one with whole teams (larger scale I think?) which I intended to go back for, but the next day they had all gone, no doubt some feeBay bottom-feeder or car-bootie bog-troll saw a profit in them?

99p Stores; Card Board; Card Board Toys; Card Buildings; Card Flats; Cardboard; Cardboard Flat Figures; Dr. Frankenstein's Monster; Ent; Hag; Halloween Flats; Halloween Toys; Haunted House; Haunted Tree; Headless Zombie; Knife-Murderer; Living Tree; Make Up Card Models; Make Your Own; Mummy; PMS; Serial-Killer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vampire; Witch;
The reason for getting this one wasn't the simplistic card building, but the six stand-alone press-out figures which cover the main tropes of horror characters - clockwise from headless; zombie, vampire, Dr. Frankenstein's monster, knife-murderer/serial-killer, witch/hag and mummy.

99p Stores; Card Board; Card Board Toys; Card Buildings; Card Flats; Cardboard; Cardboard Flat Figures; Dr. Frankenstein's Monster; Ent; Hag; Halloween Flats; Halloween Toys; Haunted House; Haunted Tree; Headless Zombie; Knife-Murderer; Living Tree; Make Up Card Models; Make Your Own; Mummy; PMS; Serial-Killer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vampire; Witch;
Two other figures complete the line-up of 'usual suspects' a much-alive skeleton and a ghost, although both are to be slotted into the finished model rather than having independent bases,  while a living tree ('Ent'!) is another useful stand-alone . . . 40p the lot - bargain!

I may try to get some spare game-board slotted stands (for cards) as their press-out stands actually get in the way of the artwork - at least four designs commonly available.

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