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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.

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

TXA is for Madeupname Prehisterror!

Shelled out the princely sum of three quid in Poundland the other day; we buy this shite so you can too - they're really rather good and at two for a pound, worth a punt if you collect dinosaurs.

Brontosaurus; Diplodocus; Kerthunkersaurus; Large Raptor; Poundland TXA; Prehisterror; Prehistoric Creatures; Series 01; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spinosaurus; Total Extreme Action; Toy Dinosaurs; Triceratops; TXA Dinosaurs; Tyrannosaurus Rex;
There are three pairs in what would appear to be an initial tranche (note the 'Series 01' in the bottom right-hand corner of the pack) from 'Total Extreme Action', certainly a phantom-brand; sharing a postcode with many other Poundland-exclusive 'brands'!

Brontosaurus; Diplodocus; Kerthunkersaurus; Large Raptor; Poundland TXA; Prehisterror; Prehistoric Creatures; Series 01; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spinosaurus; Total Extreme Action; Toy Dinosaurs; Triceratops; TXA Dinosaurs; Tyrannosaurus Rex;
A medium small size of toy dinosaur and well decorated in at least four colours, some five, and - like pretty much all sets of dinosaurs - box-scale rather than a constant scale. The animals are moulded in a reasonably dense PVC-alike material.

Brontosaurus; Diplodocus; Kerthunkersaurus; Large Raptor; Poundland TXA; Prehisterror; Prehistoric Creatures; Series 01; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spinosaurus; Total Extreme Action; Toy Dinosaurs; Triceratops; TXA Dinosaurs; Tyrannosaurus Rex;
There is no 'naming of the parts' so you have to guess the species, from top left to bottom right we seem to have a large raptor, tyrannosaur, generic kerthunkersaurus, dipp'y or bront', triceratops and spinosaur. And you can see the rule here is mouth open = five colours; mouth closed = four colours!

Brontosaurus; Diplodocus; Kerthunkersaurus; Large Raptor; Poundland TXA; Prehisterror; Prehistoric Creatures; Series 01; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spinosaurus; Total Extreme Action; Toy Dinosaurs; Triceratops; TXA Dinosaurs; Tyrannosaurus Rex;
In-scale group-shot; these are nice models and four the money, you can't go wrong, although prehistoric-purists may want to tone-down the triceratops; that green makes him look more like an iced birthday-cake!

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