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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.

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

H is for How They Come In - Week 11

Missing from my sudden departure was the H is for... thread, so here it is as a separate thing, which it might have been anyway, as, after a slow start; nothing from the Friday to the Tuesday, I then picked-up quite a bit, just before modern life melted away!

Dinosaurs; Early Learners; ELC Fantasy Figures; Face Frights; Farm Animals; Finger Frights; Footballers; Mixed Figures; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toys; Pencil Tops; Resin Statuettes; Rubber Jigglers; Teddy Bears; Terracotta Figurines; Toy Cats; Toy Dogs; Wallace & Gromit; Zoo Animals;
The Tuesday find was four bags of stuff thematically sorted into a bog of dinosaurs, a bag of funny ugly/rubber jigglers, and two bags of domestic animals, one with mostly dogs, the other having quite a bit of Cherilea!

Dinosaurs; Early Learners; ELC Fantasy Figures; Face Frights; Farm Animals; Finger Frights; Footballers; Mixed Figures; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toys; Pencil Tops; Resin Statuettes; Rubber Jigglers; Teddy Bears; Terracotta Figurines; Toy Cats; Toy Dogs; Wallace & Gromit; Zoo Animals;
Dinosaurs were a mix of generics and marked examples, with Safari and AAA/'Triple-A' among them, the rubber jigglers were two-each of three designs while among the dogs were some MEG's  - Puppy in my Pocket. I'm loving the shocking-pink flamingo!

Dinosaurs; Early Learners; ELC Fantasy Figures; Face Frights; Farm Animals; Finger Frights; Footballers; Mixed Figures; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toys; Pencil Tops; Resin Statuettes; Rubber Jigglers; Teddy Bears; Terracotta Figurines; Toy Cats; Toy Dogs; Wallace & Gromit; Zoo Animals;
The Wednesday saw me blow four 50p's on these, the flamenco dancer goes with the terracotta civil-guards, military and ceremonials we looked at the other day - and because another came in at the same time, we will look at them all again; any day now.

The bear with the phone is another of the HH Hill's we saw a couple of, a while ago, while the standing, anthropomorphic one is unmarked, as is the squirrel . . . I've picked up several squirrels (and foxes) recently, most in resin!

Dinosaurs; Early Learners; ELC Fantasy Figures; Face Frights; Farm Animals; Finger Frights; Footballers; Mixed Figures; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toys; Pencil Tops; Resin Statuettes; Rubber Jigglers; Teddy Bears; Terracotta Figurines; Toy Cats; Toy Dogs; Wallace & Gromit; Zoo Animals;
The next charity shop along gave me another ELC fantasy figure, I've since brought them all together, as they have been appearing in ones and two for a few years here now, and will do a post on all of them at some point.

Dinosaurs; Early Learners; ELC Fantasy Figures; Face Frights; Farm Animals; Finger Frights; Footballers; Mixed Figures; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toys; Pencil Tops; Resin Statuettes; Rubber Jigglers; Teddy Bears; Terracotta Figurines; Toy Cats; Toy Dogs; Wallace & Gromit; Zoo Animals;
Finally I picked up another bag of figures, the resin otter is not the first recently either? The two footballers are the same 'Gazza' sculpt as the one with base Chris Smith sent to the Blog a while ago, but different 'strips' so clearly you could find your favourite team . . . provided your favourite team is one of the 'big four', or six or whatever!

The civilians are rather in the same vein as the larger ones we saw at the Toy Fair, and while slightly similar to Homies (coming again soon), are a bit too big, and seem to be an exclusivity thing with clear nods to nationality, ethnicity and disability.

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