Charity
Ever wondered what happens to all the toys
attached to unsold sale-or-return magazines? I know I have, and there is now a donation-program
to help a cancer charity by selling them as stand-alone novelties - I saw this
in Basingrad's Wilkinson store,
whether it's a one-off local or national-policy thing I don't know, but Wilko don't do magazines themselves as
far as I know, so they must be coming from a central sorting place somewhere?
Looking for something to keep the kids
amused? The Evil Empire continues to spread and I'm sure Marwell Zoo will prove cheaper that Legoland, and you'll get to see some real animals before we've
killed them all.
Speaking of extinction - as I was! - there
is an exhibition of life-size, motorised models of dinosaurs at London Zoo for the next six weeks, the
models include a T-Rex (of course!), Brachiosaurus, Pterodactyl, Triceratops
and an Edmontonia - a kerthunkersaurus with spikes down it's sides and a real bludgeon
of a kerthunkertail. The exhibition is included in the zoo's entry-price (so
you can visit more real animals before we've killed them all), called Zoorassic Park (geddit!) and mounted by ZSL.
Idiot's Corner
Idiot's Corner
That'll be Britains' famous secret Welsh factory will it?
Ah yes! Meet 'Blue Turtle' the elephant,
surely rarer than rare!
Since when were Batman and Saturn Girl
considered Toy Soldiers? The vagaries of trawling through the results of
click-farm 'stats' manipulation! I will be doing a whole post on HobbyDB in September or sometime soonish
anyway, but in the meantime can I suggest that if you get an uncontrollable
desire to visit HobbyDB, you instead
take yourself to Planet Diecast; as having
two similar databases in one Cyberverse is dumb, especially when the owner of
the new one . . . err . . . used to own part of the old one!
I was amused by these, some Alibaba
brand-on-a-brand Chinese outfit, but what I like is that the French soldier
looks more like a British soldier than the British soldier! Perhaps some
enterprising tourist-kiosk owner near Waterloo (London) could stock-up on them,
with a suitable sticker retro-fitted to the boxes of course, I could come up
with some witty epithets - I'm sure!
More here
General News
Is a bit slim since the previous news
wasn't that long ago, but Games Workshop
have enjoyed a 10% rise in their share value following the announcement their
full year profits are expected to beat market forecasts, not hard when you've
spent the previous 18 months making all your fans (read: 'suckers') buy a whole
new system!
The steps of St Paul's Cathedral were
covered in 700 Teddy Bears the other day - of all shapes and sizes - each
representing one of the children who flee war-torn Southern Sudan and enter
Uganda each week. While artist Jason Bruges is showing an installation of toy
pandas under a sheet of glass at the Living
Planet Centre in Woking, Surrey - call me a critic, but it looks remarkably
similar to an installation of little, lumpen, figures at the Serpentine Gallery about 10 years ago?
Composition News - A life-size soldier made
of mud (representing the British losses at Passchendaele)
was unveiled in Trafalgar Square last Tuesday, designed to be displayed for
four days before being allowed to dissolve in the rain; our weather last week
means it's probably already a bit featureless, but may be worth a look if you're
passing.
Those Peter Rabbit commemorative 50p-coins
mentioned in a previous 'News, Views'; There's currently a false
scarcity-bubble on the Jemima Puddle-duck coin leading to prices of between 7
and 15-quid for something you can only get fifty-pees worth of stuff with!
Links
Second case of a Toy Soldier themed
restaurant in two months, are we seeing a trend develop here?
Interesting and thought provoking; how some
kids value one item with obvious love, while others are trying to win the 'He
who dies with the biggest pile, wins' competition - far too young.
Following-on from the Cornish mess a few
weeks ago is this on the other side of the world . . .
Not 'my thing' but someone may be tickled;
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