Although it is increasingly 'popular' over
here, pushed by retailers who want to sell as much plastic crap as possible to
as many people as possible, inventing a whole new level of mediocre utilitarian
'Bread & Circus' joy; the racks of costumes hanging in Wilkinson's at the moment like an abstract installation artwork
claiming to represent 'Fast and Furious 15'; that's as far as we've got,
buckets, big bags of sugary sweets, the odd bit of netting with spiders stapled
to it and lots of costumes - which will mostly be in landfill this time next
week, which leaves the Chinese manufacturers' laughing all the way to the bank!
But in the land of Halloween, they've honed
the experience for far longer, and have issued various things to interest
figure collectors: cake decorations, pencil-tops, carded figural 'treats' and
other stuff, although it mostly seems to be 'vintage' these days, however Brian
did find a few new items across the pond, well worth blogging, and these are
among them.
For those struggling with my hand signals,
I should point out that the one on the left is called the Trumpton and the one on
the right is the Farage-rymes-with-Garage! Taken together it's also four in Roman numerals, as there's clearly only three of them, we have a clue as to the
failure of that empire; stupid system of writing maths!
I like these, they’re fun! Imported into
the US and Canada by the Greenbrier/DTSC
partnership we've seen before, a clue to Jaru
being in the background, somewhere, maybe.
If it wasn't for the date and the nature of
the subject matter, they would be a Christmas novelty-post thing! Which raises
the question as to why supposedly Christian countries have such a thing as
Halloween? Don't all those Lear jet-owning TV evangelists have something to say
about it - doing Satan's work for him &etc.?
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