A large bag of Tylers/Mundi Toys bubble-gum
premium figures were also included; we looked at them briefly early in the
Blog's life, but I will return to them when I have all of them, at the moment
I'm a GI and several Jap's short! In the meantime, I posted a link to a very
good post on them on Akela's kiosk Blog a while ago,
here it is again.
Among the pile of plenty from Chris were a
large number of parachute toys from 30mm Christmas cracker novelties to 90mm
blow-moulds which will all prove useful on the forthcoming 'Poopatroopa'
page! The guy adjacent to the two arrows is the same guy - for scale/continuity.
One was a different pose/type altogether, a
bootleg Toy Story figure I suspect,
so he got shot separately, while the yellow one (who isn't glow-in-the-dark) is
made of a very odd plastic which is semi-transparent and seems to diffuse
light, the photographs don't do justice to how he glows with the pen-torch in
his cavity!
The Poopatroopa page is in preparation,
but now I'll have to re-sort and re-shoot a bunch of the images (I'm not
complaining!), but seeing how I seem to have ended-up with a rainbow theme of
backgrounds through the running-order, I'll re-shoot with other backgrounds to
mix-it-up a bit!
Fantastic! A new Hong Kong tat'm'cycle . .
. with rider! AND stabilisers! Look at it, it's too cool for TT school and it's
the stuff like this which sets the Blog apart from others! What you can't tell
from the image is that one of the wheels keeps coming out, but hot water will
sort that, and what would you expect from something which back in the day
probably cost an old sixpence!
The shot below is various figures of merit
or interest, from the back left we have a 1:16th/18th German tank commander,
two New Ray copies (or late
production, their current catalogue has figures equally poor and unpainted
compared to their early production), an Airfix
Commando piracy, head-swapped to the ANZACs, I vaguely recognise him and may
have some others somewhere, but they may just be similar based
(kidney/figure-eight) Airfix 8th Army
copies?
Next is one of two (the other crawling in
front) original sculpt, modern made in China 'Army Men', he's a bit comical
(like those zombies we were looking at a year ago - same sculptor?) but his
mate is a very nice figure in an unusual pose. I wondered if the grey one goes
with them but I don't think so.
Finally a nice Airfix Russian/GI hybrid knock-off, there were a couple but I
selected this one for the line-up as it's the most obvious.
We've dealt with two of the front row, the
other is very odd, and just the sort of thing I like to add to the collection -
he looks like he's been taken out of the mould too early and received a
burst-tumor of his own hot polymer at the waist-line, but closer inspection
reveals helmet-netting and while I can't imagine quite how it happened, it
would seem something went wrong either during moulding or at the point of
mould-release leading to a second runner, or the other end of this figures
runner got welded to this chap and by the time the operator had sorted it, he
was in the for-retail product-stillage with his mate's head still firmly part
of him, and his own legs now making him a contender for Pontin's knobbly-knees competition!! Underneath the mess is the
common'ish copy of Lido's first
version GI's, we looked at them here.
The Wild West threw-up some treats too,
with two Plasticom
premium/lolly-sticks, a CMV
totem-pole, an ABC Indian (front
right) and interesting HK copy in 40mm (red), a brown Wing Lung Indian - Airfix
copy, two premiums and a huge Mohican Indian (back right) who's like nothing
I've seen since the Peco's Unbreakable
Toy Figures and is hard to date, it's a two-part swivel-waist toy, with
separate arms, head and rifle, all glued in-place (bar the waist which
pops-off) and may be modern'ish? He has no marking beyond a double-imprinted 2
on his foot, probably a mould-cavity marker.
The two premiums are from Collonil (red cowboy) and the other is
marked Plume Brisee (marbled-pink
Indian) but I'm not sure if that is a brand or - more likely - his name (Broken Feather)? According to Ludo's premium site
he was made by Alkastap in France and (/or also) issued by Café Legal, Codec, Bonux, and others.
I particularly like the Indian, I think he's pointing
at a red-necked white Texan, possibly in El Paso and saying "You; illegal, go back where you came
from!" Both are polyethylene.
The overall winner was the Britains-copy sucker-Guardsman on the
right, I think I have one (standing firing) which has been on the blog, but if
memory serves he's grubby and a darker red, this one is a bright-scarlet
minter!
The two weights are a bit of a quandary?
Are they joke weights for a comedy/clown weight-lifter in a circus set, or are
they test-weight or counter-weight wagon-loads from a model railway or
heavy-haulage lorry? Maybe from a crane model? If anyone knows, put us right! They
are a dense PVC, which is stable and the integral lifting-loops are quite firm
and unbroken which could point to good quality or recent production?
The other two figures are from the same franchise
(Walden?), presumably a movie, but I
can't think what? The dwarf looks like Gimli, but the armour is wrong I think,
while the centaur wasn't in Lord of the
Rings, nor was Disney involved,
so I thought maybe the Lion/Witch/Wardrobe series but I don't think they
started filming until much later; 2012'ish?
Anyway, one (the centaur) seems to be a Nēstlē premium in hard polystyrene plastic, the other from a set of Hasbro PVC-like toy or action figures? They
are marked as follows and I will do a little research when I post, to see if I can ID the film, which I will add below.
Nēstlē
CЄ
© Disney/Walden
China TAG
18M+
(Centaur - Hard
styrene, single piece)
© Disney /
Walden
© Hasbro
2005 China
(Dwarf - PVC
three points of articulation, ring-hands, separate axe)
Both about 50mm
It IS The Chronical's of Narnia - the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - I must say I thought they were later films, show's how quickly I'm getting how old?!
Many-many thanks to Chris Smith for all
these, and everything else in the parcel, which will prove very useful on the
blog going forwards, and has already added to the sheepdog story and enhanced
the recent sentry-box post - cheers Chris, much appreciated!
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