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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.

Sunday, August 30, 2020

U is for Update - Parachute Toy Page

I suspect BT has failed completely (or blocked me, without informing me, for being a complaining git), so this and the previous won't get up 'till Monday, but it will - at least - be in time for RTM, with the other stuff which should have published over the weekend being filtered into the normal output!

As you can see I got on in-time, but the six posts which were supposed to publish Sat-Sun., have been held so that's rather it for RTM, now, but there's always more to come here!


21575B; ESBCEE-3401-133168; Fun In The Sun; Impaerial Poopatroopas; Imperial; Imperial 21575B; Imperial Toy LLC; Imperial Toys; Para Trooper; Para troopers; Parachute Novelties; Parachute Toys; Paratrooper; Paratrooper Toys; Paratroopers; Paratroops; Super Fun Pack;
All these are contributions from (alphabetically) Brain Berke, Chris Smith. Peter Evans and Theo van der Weerden, and while the rest have gone on the other page, the section for 'poopatroopers' hasn't been edited or uploaded yet, so it can go here!

These are from Imperial, via Brian Berke over 'The Pond' and while they (Imperial) were responsible for the original Poopa-Troopers, these are slightly different, however, they are not the clones we've seen in BJ, Jaru and Kandy Toys colours in the last few years, they are if anything closer to the Imperial originals.

Also they are only a small part of a larger set of summer garden/beach stuff, although that bat could be used to get some height on the sky divers!

5 050837 170518; Airfix Afrika Korps; Airfix Paratroopers; Airfix Paratroops; Airfix Toy Soldier; Candy Brokers Pty Ltd.; Combat Force; Combat Parachute Man; Direct Sales; DS Limited; ESBCEE-3401-133168; Fun In The Sun; FY7 7NY; Hawkin Tobar; Hawkin's Bazaar; Hawkin's Bazar; Hawkin-Tobar; Hawkins Bazaar; Impaerial Poopatroopas; Imperial; Imperial 21575B; Imperial Toy LLC; Imperial Toys; Marshall Group Limited; Marshall Group Ltd.; Marshall's Imports; Marshall's Wholesalers; No. 1371705; Novelty Parachute Toys; Para Patrol; Para Trooper; Para troopers; Parachute Jumper; Parachute Novelties; Parachute Toy Page; Parachute Toys; Paratrooper; Paratrooper Toys; Paratroopers; Paratroops; Party Favours; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Super Fun Pack; Three Kinds; Tobar Toys; Unique; Unique Favours; With Candy; Iverden;
These four on the other hand have published to update the relevant sections of the Parachute figures page. That's got novelty paratroopers up before the end of RTM, and we'll be on to other things as the Autumn gets a grip, looks like we're in for a hard'ish Winter!

2 comments:

EY said...

I remember getting one of these toys at a party as a child. I don't think anyone could actually get the parachutes to really open properly after throwing them in the air.

Hugh Walter said...

We used to throw them out of the bedroom window . . . where they inevitably fell in an old rose bush . . shrub . . . thicket! Which would shred you as you tried to get it back!

You don't see roses like that anymore? There were two, one was ginger-stemmed and had millions of fine needles, the other was normal rose green with thorns like eagles talons and they both grew in clumps like bamboo - about seven or eight feet, they were lethal, but you don't see them anymore . . . weird!

H