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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Countdown to Halloween - 5 - Poundworld Plus's Rubber WTF's

While I was getting the previous 'countdown' post's back of bugs from Poundworld Plus I also purchased these - so you don't have to!

These are not part of the Halloween range, and I have been studiously ignoring them in the toy section of the store since it opened back in the spring, they are basically shite; large blobs of poorly executed silicon rubber, vaguely representing generic species, three spiders, two beetles and an ant, except that the ant is probably not an ant and therefore the only really interesting item on the card.

The card claims both Toy Bank and Green Geko [sic] Industries as brands/brand-marks but are actually another ITP Imports item - here in the UK at least.

The 'ant' looks like a Velvet Ant, which is actually a wingless wasp and a worthy species to have as a model, but the beetles are poor and while the three spiders are all different and all resemble the outlines of real creatures, they are chunky infant toys of no real merit, fun for five-year olds!

I would add, that while I've been ignoring them for a month [and wouldn't have bought them if it wasn't for the fact that over the last few weeks what was going to be multiple posts on the 31st became an insect related set of rack-toy posts suitable for a countdown trope], I have as yet to find the other six of the advertised "12 realistic insects for you to collect", despite checking the toy section at least once a week. Now that I've weakened and bought these I'll have to get the other six - if I see them!

They look better . . . dead; now that's a proper bit of the spirit of Halloween, right there!

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