This is in every way the twin of
yesterday's post and I'll go though it in the same vaguely chronological order
(they came in) as I did yesterday too, but with an 'action figure' tacked-on
the end!
From the mobile, from 2011, from Halsall's HTI, four-quid seems a bit
steep, but they are die-casts; not all-tacky-placky, so I guess there's a 'quality'
premium (or material cost!) built-in to the pricing.
Branded to Hunson with a JPW import
label, this is a set with figures I have no lose samples of, but you can see
several which aren't in the line-ups below, pity as they look to be reasonable
figures, the out-of scale accessories on the other hand . . . ?
From last year and re-shown to compare with
the next image, as both are Jaru but
this set has different contents from . . .
. . . this one, which (like yesterday's
Police set) has the firefighter figures moulded in two colours; red and yellow,
but - again - not the hollow based ones in the [later?] set above (this one's dated
2002) but rather; flat-based figures in 'new' (old) poses.
With a beach-toy type fire engine, like
yesterday's; this too is a bargain at a fiver!
Another comparison, the Lucky Toys medic is a motor-racing repaint
and I'd not clicked he was in there or I'd have striped his paint and put him
with the others when I Blogged them back in April, May? I'll be doing so now!
With small samples of both the toob-toys
from Funtastic and last year's Jaru I can only guess at the full
pose-count, but the Top Toy (and
others) were topped-up by poses in Peter's 'Big Bag' and a US-style hydrant
back in May and are looking good at a round-ten?
The blue set is hard plastic from the
1970's or '80's and a major theme is rescuing people; the last of those blue
firefighters has a child piggy-backed with its arms round his neck. Funtastic has a firefighter carrying an
adult, the guy down the bottom has a clearly unconscious girl in his arms, the
chap from HTI is carrying a swaddled
infant while the bloke two across is wearing the distinctive stahlhelm helmet of the cold-war era Deutsches
Feurwacht and has a small child over his shoulder - that's around
12/15% of the poses are rescuing someone.
Speaking as an ex-soldier (and knowing at
least one ex-firefighter visits the Blog), I'd like to say that firefighters
are like soldiers, only better! Both are willing to risk their lives, but while
soldiers are trained - and occasionally called-upon - to kill and destroy, to lay-waste
and blow things up, firefighters save lives and property; they prevent death
and destruction - respect to them.
Finally an 'action figure', stranger to
these shores and not a habit I'm encouraging - if only because of the vast
number of them, mostly generics, mostly of limited articulation and therefore
limited play-value, and . . . basically . . . they're dolls!
This one was imported into the 'States by JPW International via/for Hunson Trading, the 'fire-service' logo
is similar but not the same as the one on the older Jaru card, clearly a bit of Chinese free 'clip-art' or shareware!
Brain photographed it with a similar Ninja,
also marked JPW but via OKK Trading, so you pays your money and
takes your choice with these sales-brands, or you can make it up as you go
along.
I'm pretty sure I've seen the Ninja in Poundland under Funtastic! But that's for another day.
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