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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, January 23, 2020

TE is for Toy Element

A new name to me and I expect to most of you, a Hong Kong based Chinese company, or brand-mark? I suspect the later - some of the animals look familiar; especially the Dimetrodon?

African Elephant; Chinasaurs; Dimetrodon Toy Figure; Dinosaurs Set; Farm and Zoo; Giraffe Toy; Jungle Animals; PVC Leopard; Rhino; Rhinoceros; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; TE Dinosaur Set; TE Jungle Animals; TE Toys; Toy Element China; Toy Element Dinosaurs Set; Toy Element Hong Kong; Toy Lion; Wild Animals; Zebra;
A couple of shelfies I took in TKMaxx last week; the Toy Element logo'd animal sets are quite well done (for toys), but are manufactured in this new style of two-halves glued together.

African Elephant; Chinasaurs; Dimetrodon Toy Figure; Dinosaurs Set; Farm and Zoo; Giraffe Toy; Jungle Animals; PVC Leopard; Rhino; Rhinoceros; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; TE Dinosaur Set; TE Jungle Animals; TE Toys; Toy Element China; Toy Element Dinosaurs Set; Toy Element Hong Kong; Toy Lion; Wild Animals; Zebra;
Jungle Animals? Well, you might find one of these on the peripheries of some African jungles (the leopard), indeed, up a tree! But facing out of the jungle, watching the plains for potential pray, the other five are definitely savannah animals!

Semantics aside, the scale is not constant, and painting (on the left-hand three) is poor but there is war-elephant conversion potential in the pachyderm, he has a nice broad back and workable pose for howdah-straps, ropes and the like, while the zebra is a fair stab, but should be at that size.

African Elephant; Chinasaurs; Dimetrodon Toy Figure; Dinosaurs Set; Farm and Zoo; Giraffe Toy; Jungle Animals; PVC Leopard; Rhino; Rhinoceros; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; TE Dinosaur Set; TE Jungle Animals; TE Toys; Toy Element China; Toy Element Dinosaurs Set; Toy Element Hong Kong; Toy Lion; Wild Animals; Zebra;
There's also a set of Chinasaurs, of which - obviously - the Dimetrodon is my favourite! The two giant sauropods are obviously in a smaller scale to the other four, but the latter work well together and the other two can be juveniles! The purple meat-eater is a bit leery!

The ironic thing here is the Stegosaurus, which has an odd gap in its back-plates, caused by the desire to easily mould the two halves; that's the two halves which are also designed to help curb incongruities in the sculpting like undercuts . . . or odd gaps!

A tenner makes them just under two-quid each, which is considerably less than Schleich or Papo (for obvious reasons of realism/decoration) but a lot more expensive than the bagged, toobed and tub'ed rack-toys out there.

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