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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.

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Y is for Yet 'Ee is or Yet 'Ee isn't . . . a Yeti?

I had this chap marked up as a knock-off Chewie from the War of Stars, but, he doesn't have a cross belt liberally adorned with quick-release para-buckles!

Chewbacca; Galaxy Laser Team; Galaxy Lazer Team; Great Ape; Horror Play Set; Luke Skywalker; Lycan; MPC 60mm Figures; MPC Horror Play Set; Small Scale World; Star Wars; Tim Mee; Toy Big-Foot; Toy Sasquatch; Toy Yeti; Unknown Plastic Figure; Wolfman; Wookie;
Also, he has 'cartoon' hands with three chubby fingers, so I wonder if he may be from a set of something related to kids-TV like Scoobie-Doo or Tin Tin? Is he a Yeti, a Wookie or Mr. James the school-teacher, hoping not to be unmasked by some pesky kids in a hippyfied camper-van?

Chewbacca; Galaxy Laser Team; Galaxy Lazer Team; Great Ape; Horror Play Set; Luke Skywalker; Lycan; MPC 60mm Figures; MPC Horror Play Set; Small Scale World; Star Wars; Tim Mee; Toy Big-Foot; Toy Sasquatch; Toy Yeti; Unknown Plastic Figure; Wolfman; Wookie;
Posed with a few other hairy lycan types, namely Tim Mee late production Galaxy Laser Team's oh-no-no-no-absolutely-not-no-never-a-wookie . . . err 'Wookie' and MPC's bat-eared wool-uff-man!

Chewbacca; Galaxy Laser Team; Galaxy Lazer Team; Great Ape; Horror Play Set; Luke Skywalker; Lycan; MPC 60mm Figures; MPC Horror Play Set; Small Scale World; Star Wars; Tim Mee; Toy Big-Foot; Toy Sasquatch; Toy Yeti; Unknown Plastic Figure; Wolfman; Wookie;
Posed with Applause's Luke (hair's wrong for Luke, is it the other one? Dirk Buzzlight? Dick Lightly?), he is still not tall enough (the furry one) so he remains a mystery, but someone must have him pegged?!

Now known to be from the board game 'Bigfoot' from Waddinton's and Milton Bradley/MB Games, and the later 1980's version, not the 1977 version which also has a Bigfoot model still to be added to the collection! He's had two bars removed which would enable him to slot into the game apparatus and kick rocks at the cartoonish running player-figures which i also have somewhere

2 comments:

Spectrum Steve said...

Hi Hugh,

Your are Right Hugh, It's not Luke It's Wedge Antillies his wingman (token survivor if you will!)

May the Force be with you.

Hugh Walter said...

And what did the Antilles ever do to Mr Lucas?!!!

H