Taking up some of the slack from the demise of Ackerman, House of Marbles had a few nice things on display this year, we've seen the eraser-troops already, but here's the rest of the stuff I though all or some of you might be very or vaguely interested in!
They seen to be carrying two colours of
this chap whom we've previously seen carded under the Tobar tag in green, I took more shots and he/they'll soon be on the
new parachutists page, so this will do for now, I like the tag line; Shoot up, chute down!
This is lovely (I mean it's the poorest
grade of ex-HK shite you can find, but its 'throwback/retro' existence is
lovely to someone like me!), I know I have these with various HK-era marks, and
you may remember about seven or eight years ago I bought the Farm version in a
department store (Debenhams in Newbury?)
at Christmas, also in HoM branding -
so it should be on the 'tag'.
The best thing is the Black Panther; the
rest are pretty standard old, much sub-pirated sculpts, half Britains Herald (Tiger, baby Giraffe,
Pelican etc.), some Timpo (Llama)
some more generic with an old cake-decoration pine-tree and some zoo fencing
which probably owe more to Blue Box
than the Britains originals!
But - despite the age of the sculpts/tools
- it's hours of fun for a youngster, and they've packed a lot into a tiny box.
These are a bit 'deform', but could pass
for fat little baby-saurs! Key-ring novelty dinosaurs; there sem to be four
sculpts, a stegosuarus, a carnivor/'Rex type a Proto- or Tri- ceratopsian and a
dimetrodon who looks like a cross between a Spinosaur and a Baryonyx!
Finally, I couldn't pass this by without
snapping a picture; we loved this as kids and managed to play it for years
without breaking any of the pieces. These retro games are being carried by
various brands and both sides of the pond, so you may find them in different
graphics?
They are weird animals; the tongue of a
butterfly, the antenna of a slug, the head of an ant, the body of Thunderbirds 'Mole' and legs removed
from a trio of can-can dancers while their eyes seem to have been removed from
the back of a washing-machine! Timeless toys!
The rule in our house was . . . you can
build multicoloured ones but the legs, eyes and antenna must match the same
components' colour!
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