Kiddybricks-call-me-Lego
Recently opening a new Lego Store in central London; Lego
have now announced 'up to' four new 'Discovery Centres' for Australian shopping
precincts.
Iraq
The 'i' announced on the 24th April that
following the removal of the so called ISIS (surely ISII? Easier to call them
Deash) from East Mosul; toy shops are making a comeback, with Teddy Bears,
Dolls and Action Figures available again! They don't say how anyone on
starvation incomes will be paying for them?
Hornby
Despite good news in recent 'News, Views...'
and better forecasts from the company, there is still 'trooble int'boardroom'
down there in Kent (Brexitland HQ) with a major shareholder trying to get one
of the directors replaced and himself installed! It's unlikely to get through an
all-shareholder vote at the AGM but has negatively affected shares.
Meanwhile the company; which also owns the Airfix, Corgi and Scalextric
brand marks, has announced the 1st phase of their planned-recovery complete.
Hasbro / Kenner
News from the press-room of the bleedin'
obvious saw Kenner-Parker issue a
profits warning about three weeks ago (21nd April) with the announcement of a
drop in Barbie sales, then on the
24th April Hasbro announced a
'better-than-expected' quarterly profit result - well fancy that!
Other Bits
This was in one of the papers a while ago,
given to the Queen by the Chinese it's one of last year's presents, the deck
and bridge look to be of the finest quality, matching old silver neff
centrepieces in workmanship, but then it looks as if they gave-up trying on the
crow's nests and masts? However: it's about HO-OO gauge compatible, so on the
list for me to pay the Pink Panther to perloin for me, once I win that all
important triple-roll-over on the Euro-lottery, that I don't buy tickets for!
This is from ages ago, but is worth a quick
show; a couple of Preiser (or the new-generation
Noch?) figures illustrating a
front-page banner [inset] for an in-depth article on earnings inequality in the
'i' back in September.
Also falling through the publishing-timetable
hoops here at Smallscaleworld Towers was this Metro fluff-piece from last December with B-B-B-B-B-B-Bob Mortimer
putting in a mention for childhood poopertrooper-parachuter Toy Soldiers and
having it illustrated by some fresh out of Journo-school picture-editor's
junior numpty with a modern 'Made in China' copy of the old Tim Mee GI's - look:
no parachute; you dimwit - in three years time he/she'll be on Sky News calling
wheeled-APC's "Tanks" - you know I know it!
The nature of Arco-Mattel Mobile Attack Cannons seems to have gone from badder to
worstest! "Mr. Ford, Mr. Ford -
Herald Tribune here; is it true we can buy any colour of Mobil Attack Cannon we
like, as long as it's pink?"
I can't remember which paper this came from
but it looks like a Metro
column-filler, it's a very fanciful stock-image probably by some Victorian
copper-plate artist and needs at least five banks of oars each side. While
you'd need at least twelve Zvezda kits just to scratch-build the hull! However,
it could be lazer-cut?
This is another one which has missed
previous News & Views posts for a while now; the UK mobile telephone
network '3' has had various adverts in various sizes with a general aura
of nostalgia provided by toy imagery, here a knock-off (or real?) Muppet spews-forth knock-off (or real?) My Little Ponys! Blehhrrr! Weird
marketing from those crazy guys at marketing-central! "I puke rainbow-ponies, buy me"
Plastic Warrior's 32nd Plastic Toiy
Soldier Show - It's tomorrow peeps!
There is a toy soldier show, tomorrow,
here, in England's green and pleasant land, it's the 32nd show - in a row!
There will be rare and valuable single
figures for amounts of geld that make your eyes water, there will be bags of
Hong Kong tat for pennies and everything loose, boxed, bagged or carded in
between; they may be painted or unpainted, home painted or paint-stripped; they
may be old, new or copies; military, paramilitary or civilian, spacemen,
space-warriors or space aliens, historical, fantasy or TV related; Wild West or
wild animals; there will be premiums, sets, bits, parts and handfuls; they will
be from 15mm (or below) to 200mm or above; they may be hard polystyrene, soft
polyethylene or floppy, bendy, stinky PVC and they will all be under one roof -
you need to be under it too!
An updated aerial shot of the scene of the
crime, it doesn't add much to previous posts, but it's new imagery!
The map version may be easier for some;
that Hospital Bridge Road is the
easiest way in I think; turning into Percy
Road especially later in the morning as you don't have to worry about the
one-way nature of the dual-carriageway, or the traffic!
There is plenty of parking, the local
railway station is quite close and further details can still be found from the on-line
PW portals:
PW on Facebook
Blogger - The PW
Blog
[a bit late to-] eMail; pw.editor@ntlworld.com
"Your target for the morning gentlemen -
The parkungspaltzen at Polimerfürtt - try not to miss"
There may be a further post here at the Smallscaleworld
around Greenwich-tea-time, I couldn't possibly say for sure . . .
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