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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.

Sunday, February 10, 2019

S is for Stamping Thundercats

Licensed from Telepix by HG Toys (the same Harett-Gilmar who made that series of TV/movie related play-sets in the 1980's), I don't know how many were in the set but hope this is all of them - two good guys and a pair of baddies, bought together from an aged shop-stock box in an older corner-shop around ten years ago?

65mm Figures; By Telepix; Cats On The Internet; Fluffy Cats; Harett-Gilmar Toys; HG Toys; Licensed from Telepix; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Toys; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Plastic Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Smelly Cats; Stampers; Stamping Thundercats; Stationary; Telepix Thundercats; Thundercats; Thundercats Stampers; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures;
Good guys (fluffy-cats?) are the outer pair (red bases); Thundercats which I could look up but can't be bothered to, one's a lion/man the other a panther/person . . . I think! The bad guys (blue bases, smelly-cats!) seem to be based on a simian of some kind and an explosion of purple crazy-string!

65mm Figures; By Telepix; Cats On The Internet; Fluffy Cats; Harett-Gilmar Toys; HG Toys; Licensed from Telepix; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Toys; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Plastic Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Smelly Cats; Stampers; Stamping Thundercats; Stationary; Telepix Thundercats; Thundercats; Thundercats Stampers; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures;
Seven years in a storage facility's shipping container has somewhat dried-out the blue inc-pads - found in the cap - but the two red ones are still going strong (good always triumphs over evil!) and they produce 20mm paper flats . . . sort of!

65mm Figures; By Telepix; Cats On The Internet; Fluffy Cats; Harett-Gilmar Toys; HG Toys; Licensed from Telepix; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Toys; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Plastic Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Smelly Cats; Stampers; Stamping Thundercats; Stationary; Telepix Thundercats; Thundercats; Thundercats Stampers; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures;
As you can see - from the risks our 'Berserker' takes on your behalf - they are 65mm if you remove the stamp and stamp/ink-cap. And it won't have escaped your notice that their role as handles leaves them a bit statue'y - Oscars for kids!

It's funny - of all the stuff I missed gallivanting around as an adolescent farmer, soldier, ski-instructor and festival-goer (box ticking!), these were probably the one's I know least about, I caught the odd episode of He-Man, watched the rise of the execrable Scrappy-Doo, joined some late-night stuff sobering-up with a microwaved pasty occasionally (Serenity, Terrahawk re-runs), saw PC'd TMHT quickly revert to TMNT in the early nineties after I returned to UK, but never really had much awareness of the Thundercats (or the various giant robot ones!), yet I have managed to accrue quite a bit of it in the last few years, even the last few months - I scored a bunch at a charity shop back in September, in two scales.

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