These are they (Mr. Berke's shelfies, that
is!); three dollars . . . is what;
one-eighty? Something like that! And for that money you can't complain, nicely
blister-packed with backing-cards and a decent level of decoration, my
complaint - voiced before now - is the rather obvious joins where separate
mouldings are fused-together to give the impression of, or allow for poses
which would otherwise have proven difficult or impossible with only undercuts.
By the 'other' LP; Lollipop Toys (or Brooklyn Lollipops Import Corp. as they
call themselves!), there are six in the whole line, and you may have recognised
one or two of them, as they have popped-up on the Blog in the past.
This is the range in its entirety, the
upper shot being from Henbrandt's old
catalogue, the lower shot from the back of the Poundland one I bought and Blogged a year or two ago. You can see
that both companies were (are?) getting the same colour schemes, which also
those carried by Brian's shelfie herd.
But, I'd already bought my 2nd 'Dippy',
this time from Poundworld Plus, and
now in a different scheme (right) to the [common] previous scheme, as we saw
with the Funtastic one on the left; Funtastic being what the industry calls a
'phantom-brand' of Poundland, I tend
to call them made-up brands or imagibrands!
The new one is by Toy Bank another phantom-brand . . . of the same group! This time
the sub-branding on the box is 'Little
Fossil Toys', which has to be added to Green
Gecko and Pirate Monkey in the
ever spiraling-upward list of cross-referenced 'brandlettes'!
Packaging - clockwise from top left - for Lollipop, Henbrandt and Poundworld Plus,
note however, that the counter display carton from Henbrant's catalogue is wearing the logo for Zhong Jie Toys, a company already supplying
Poundland (or was it 99p Stores? . . . Aaaaarrrrrhhhhh!) with
wild animal models!
Remember my paint-tray-guilt-stupid-Brit-thing
purchase the other month? Well, it's from the same range, in the same (older?)
scheme; Out of the Blue, probably a
contractor rather than a phantom, and while I can't remember the counter
display, I bet it was the same as the Henbrandt
catalogue shot . . .
. . . and I'll bet there are other
contracted and phantom brands out there carrying these six rather good, usually
very cheap, foamed-PVC (or similar) dinosaur models, indeed, I think I
mentioned TKMaxx having sets of three
about two years ago, with different graphical packaging! In fact I thought I'd
taken a shelfie, but I can't find it so I may not have!
More dino's - later today.
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