About Me

My photo
No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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.

Monday, March 11, 2019

H is for Holding-out Against Rome!

Everyone's favourite Gauls - unless they are emotionally dead from the toes up! My sample of the recent (that's my: forgotten-how-old-I-am 'recent') Kinder egg Asterix figures, not a full sample, but this is a rush post - I don't know if it showed; but I had scanning problems on Thursday night which put me behind and left the weekend's and this post a bit rushed!

2000; Asterix; Asterix and the Romans; Capsule Prizes; Capsule Toy; Capsule Toy Romans; Centurion Numerus Clausus; Claudius Lapsus; Comic Characters; Comical Figures; Dogmatix; Fabula; Film Character; Getafix; Gift Eggs; Gift-Eggs; Kinder Asterix; Kinder Prize; Kinder Prizes; Kinder-egg; Majestix; Marcus Konfus; Movie Promotional; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Prize Toys; Novelty Toy; Numerus Clausus; Obelix; Roman Centurion; Roman Legionaries; Roman Legionnaires; Roman Soldier; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; TV Related; TV Tie Ins;
Some of the main characters, Obelix, the fishmonger, Getafix making his potion and Fabula, the girl who Obelix is always flirting with! These are all from the 2000 set Asterix and the Romans.

2000; Asterix; Asterix and the Romans; Capsule Prizes; Capsule Toy; Capsule Toy Romans; Centurion Numerus Clausus; Claudius Lapsus; Comic Characters; Comical Figures; Dogmatix; Fabula; Film Character; Getafix; Gift Eggs; Gift-Eggs; Kinder Asterix; Kinder Prize; Kinder Prizes; Kinder-egg; Majestix; Marcus Konfus; Movie Promotional; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Prize Toys; Novelty Toy; Numerus Clausus; Obelix; Roman Centurion; Roman Legionaries; Roman Legionnaires; Roman Soldier; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; TV Related; TV Tie Ins;
The Romans being named, from the left; Centurion Numerus Clausus, and legionaries Marcus Konfus and Claudius Lapsus But they are from the German insert and may have differed here, to reflect names in the British edition of the original graphic novel?

The Claudius variation (with sword) may be from a later set, or a nation-specific issue? There was an earlier set: Asterix in America, but I rather lost track of Kinder after around 2008.

2000; Asterix; Asterix and the Romans; Capsule Prizes; Capsule Toy; Capsule Toy Romans; Centurion Numerus Clausus; Claudius Lapsus; Comic Characters; Comical Figures; Dogmatix; Fabula; Film Character; Getafix; Gift Eggs; Gift-Eggs; Kinder Asterix; Kinder Prize; Kinder Prizes; Kinder-egg; Majestix; Marcus Konfus; Movie Promotional; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Prize Toys; Novelty Toy; Numerus Clausus; Obelix; Roman Centurion; Roman Legionaries; Roman Legionnaires; Roman Soldier; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; TV Related; TV Tie Ins;
Dogmatix gets the chief's shield (and bearers!), there was a separate sculpt of the chief (Majestix) standing on his shield, itself resting on the legs of an upturned table!

I think there is a mix of English, German and French 'original' names/titles above, blame the Internet!

No comments: