Firstly; courtesy of Peter Evans and one of
the lots he sent in the Autumn, these are a follow-up to a post I can't find! Which was
imaged on the hoof 9and clearly not tagged properly!), losing the little bag on the way so here really for
completeness - and I know it's not everyone's 'cup of tea' (I'll be the first to call is shite!) but it all deserves
full coverage if it's figural. The above is the outer of the 'lucky bag' style
blind-bag from Poundland.
Colouring-book and crayons and the little
inner-bag with a set of the figures, minty-mint . . . contents - as pointed out last time are not what's on the packaging artwork"
Sticker set, writing this up at home I
can't remember what I posted last time so apologies if there's too much
duplication with the above link, but that's how the cookie crumbles here
sometimes!
This is a follow-up to the more recent HTI post. I was in the local toy
shop the other day (I asked about the Phidal
books - "No!") for some
liquid-polystyrene glue and noticed they had several sizes of set with the
figures from the set we looked at a while ago, but mostly larger contents and
with accessories, or different header-card graphics, but they were pricey so I
made a mental note (I almost certainly would have forgotten!) and then this lot
turned up a couple of days later in Blue
Cross for 99p!
Info' on the base points to 2014 for this
batch and instead of green/grey, the mix is green/yellow, specifically that odd
yellow of late-war German AFV's base-coat! I keep one of everything for the
'archive' and the rest goes back to charity. The grey flag (another identical
one turned-up in the bottom of the bag) is almost certainly from some other
toy.
Comparing to the previous post on these we
can add poses to the previous base marking differentials, and I've since seen a
set with the old 'My Toy/Time For Toys'
packaging in the full Halsall logo,
where the figures are in a washy 'Airfix'
desert-sand and charcoal-grey.
Here there are four distinct batches, with
the two greens having a different base-marking distribution, the yellows just
pale and dark-shade runs. As with set 3349 (link above) there is only one
figure with the full Quality Assurance/tracking information printed on the
base, in the whole (possibly incomplete) sample.
This is the fuck-up! It should have been in
the four-part overview which overran RTM in August, but it had been picked-up
by accident and transferred to the Airfix
'pending' section (American Paratroops 1:32!), so missed it's slot, I now can't
remember anything about it and as they have all been put away, it's just get-it-off-Picasa
time!
I'm pretty sure they are either Poundland or the now-gone 99p Stores from the last four or five
years, may be connected to some of the (Bely?)
figures Mr Berke sent us and which were in those four posts, and indeed as one colour,
may be in the posts anyway, but I can't be arsed (away from RTM, '28' in Part II?) to do the
legwork!
I also think they may have come from
several sources, Peter Evans and/or Brian Carrick, my own purchase and oddment
bags-from charity shops? They are poorer versions of the 'lucky-bag' figures
above (but missing the Matchbox
officer and pulling in figure-poses from other sources), it's a pose/colour
shot; end-of!
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