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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.

Monday, August 10, 2020

U is for [not so] Unique Unicorns

A classic bit of rack-toy tat here, Unique party favours have starred here in the past and so too have the contents but under different circumstances, and we still only have three sculpts in a four-pose count!

Breyer; Fantasy Figures; Fantasy Models; Fantasy Toy Figures; Hobbycraft (Farnborough); Horse Crazy Surprise Horse Painting Kits; Party Favors; Party Favour Unicorns; Small Scale Tank; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tide Mill Media; Top That Publishing; Toy Unicorns; Unicorn Miniatures; Unique Industries; Unique Party Favours; Unique Toys; Unique Unicorns;
As they come; currently in Hobbycraft (Farnborough) for next-to-no-money (a quid I think?), these eight party favors are basically the same figures we saw here in an overview and here in more detail.

Where they were labelled to Top That Publishing/Tide Mill Media and possibly copies of the Breyer 'Horse Crazy Surprise Horse Painting Kits' sculpts with horns added by the pirating body?

Breyer; Fantasy Figures; Fantasy Models; Fantasy Toy Figures; Hobbycraft (Farnborough); Horse Crazy Surprise Horse Painting Kits; Party Favors; Party Favour Unicorns; Small Scale Tank; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tide Mill Media; Top That Publishing; Toy Unicorns; Unicorn Miniatures; Unique Industries; Unique Party Favours; Unique Toys; Unique Unicorns;
They are still 35mm to the shoulder and 50-odd to the crown, the only differences being that A) they are now factory painted in a 'bright' pastels scheme and B) there are eight not four, although we still have the anomaly of one duplicate (the same pose as last time) among the three sculpts, so four of one pose, four of the other two! Therefore the evidence would appear to dictate that the duplication was in the tool.

Rack Toy! Out there now!

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