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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.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

I is for Inclusion

I will add a new tag for this post: 'Inclusion Toy', as I have a whole tub of these somewhere with dinosaurs, sea-life, soldiers, N-gauge parachutists* and others with a few brands, but this one stayed on its card and is in with a bunch of other rack-toys we've been working through this RTM.

* They're real fun, between 1 and 5 tiny little almost-stick figures, doing various arrangements of free-fall display above small, aerial-view, photograph-discs also included a few millimeters below the figures.

Bouncy Ball; England; England Bouncy Ball; Football Association; Football Novelty; Football Novelty Figurine; Football Player; Footballers Bouncy Ball; Novelty Bouncy Ball; Novelty Figurine; Novelty Toy; Official Licensed Product; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soccer Football; Soccer Player; Soccer Player Toy; Super Bouncy Ball;
Obviously the trope here is that a very small (about 1:76th) figure is set into the bouncy-ball, in this case along with a tiny football about the size of a pin-head.

While the branding is more problematical, as it's credited to 'England' (the team), Via the Football Association (FA), with the addition of Hy-Pro (an 'outdoor manufacturer'?) but there will be some management/publicity firm behind that, and they will have commissioned the artifact (along with mugs and t-shirts et al) from a third party who will have approached the same contract-manufacturers as every other rack-toy wholesaler!

Bouncy Ball; England; England Bouncy Ball; Football Association; Football Novelty; Football Novelty Figurine; Football Player; Footballers Bouncy Ball; Novelty Bouncy Ball; Novelty Figurine; Novelty Toy; Official Licensed Product; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soccer Football; Soccer Player; Soccer Player Toy; Super Bouncy Ball;
The figure (as with all these inclusion balls) appears to be around 1:72nd scale, but that is the magnifying effect of the clear sphere of polymer surrounding it, when you dig them out they are always smaller. Memory suggests we did look at one some time ago - a dinosaur, or a sea lion? If I can find it, I'll tag it with the new tag, and I can build on the tag in the future, when I find the rest.

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