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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.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

S is for Sort-of-Unknown - Game Playing Piece

Last time we look at the Warthog for a while - promise! I know what this is, it's a game playing piece, I know it's on one of the dongles somewhere, but I can't find it . . . can you?

Every 'beach-buggy' needs a hippy! Pudding-bowl/Page-boy hair-cut, and possibly a cartoon-related game, I seem to recall it has a 'get your team home' mechanism, with four each of these figures in four colours, but I may be wrong, and I also suspect it was aimed at the under-12's, but then so was most of the stuff we collect!

He reminds me of the weird little medic/doctor in the Albatore strip sets from Atlantic! Can you jog my memory of the real source?

Geoff eMailed me with the answer - Parker  Games Take the Brain, three poses but only two colours so not quite as I had remembered it!

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