Boley are a strange company, some of their stuff is very good, with a nice range of HO armour and
big-rigs for model railways in the past, then there was the rather poor-quality rack-toys
we looked at a while ago (last year's RTM or earlier?), and then there's this,
which manages to be all kinds of awful, yet has a set of five dinosaurs which
are rather good, by which I mean they hold themselves up to comparison with
other rack-toy dino's!
If you can ignore the fact that the rabbit
is as big as the cat OR the donkey, the farm animals are OK as sculpts, just
not scale-compatible, while the four wild animals are really low-hanging fruit,
the lion and tiger are reasonable sculpts, but as a group . . . three big-cats
from two continents and a baby giraffe - he doesn't stand a chance!
But the dinosaurs are ok, nicely in scale,
two-colour decoration with that sort of 'contour' over-spraying and reasonable
poses, worth buying the bag if you see it, and collect dinosaurs? And
remembering my own childhood - most kids don't care about the anomalies too
much, it's just more animals for the animal tub/tin/box/drawer!
I love the "over 17 pieces" . . . well . . . that'll be 18 then?!!!! Boley currently have slightly better looking stuff in tub-buckets.
Having seen them (from Wilko?) on Moonbase, then shelfied them in The Works, I first shelfied them again as a set of four in Poundworld Plus . . .
. . . then gave in to the temptation of
another Dimetrodon (however crude!) and bought the other assortment,
silly 'cos they were only a pound for 8 in The Works but I needed some
vape-juice and only had my card on me and I always feel guilty using a card for
little things of less than two quid (one of the reasons all news stories about
the imminent demise of cash are column-filling bollocks!), so topped-up with
crap fourth or fifth-generation piracies of old US Dinosaurs - and a load of
bar-snacks!
Fluorescent primaries are a bitch to
photograph, so here are two contrasting shots which between them give you some
idea of the level of 'detail' on these mouldings and the true colour of my
t-shirt!
Picked these up in a charity shop the other
day, there were two each of 24 for a 48-count and I think we may have looked at
some before . . . blind-bags or kid's-comic giveaways? Anyway - they are very
small, as well painted as the Boley's above; in the same style, but only one
colour over a cream base-material with the eyes spotted-in.
Last time we looked at these 'minis' (they
are mostly 40/50mm)I said I'd do a comparison of all of them, and that need's
only grown with the addition of these, but I still haven't got round to it;
it's a low priority, but I'll see if I can't heave them out and get it done in
the autumn.
Four - later - Palaeolithic (?) mammals are
also included in the mix, the small size of the set (scale is too strong a
word) leaves three of these pretty perfect for Airfix Tarzan and hunters - Lost
World stylie! But the mammoth is a tad too small. Does anyone know what
set/maker they are or from?
They only have a very small 'CHINA' mark,
no numbers (common with these modern chinasaur sets), and the sabre-toothed cat
and mammoth enjoy a second colour for their teeth, the big, black Rex'alike
also has a second colour with red behind his black-dot eyes, while the Dimetrodon
is a full two-colours (yeay!).
A stop-press from Brian Berke came-in last
week with these, they seem to be better quality versions of the Wilko erasers we looked-at a while ago,
lacking the flash of the UK issue, also of different species and priced cheaper at a
dollar than our pound! Brian pointed out that his 'Berserker' now has his own
'Timpo' dinosaurs, and thanks go to Brian for the Boley shots too.
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