And to be honest, lots of stuff gets lost
from News,
Views posts . . . because of lost relevance, because of something more
post'able keeping them off or because of timing-out and I bet none of you
notice, it's ephemeral, isn't it, and News, Views is a side-bar, if you
know what I mean!
If you wanted to go that badly, you looked
it up and went! However it's nice to be reminded of these things, if a useless
Blogger remembers; so before I forget . . .
. .
. the first Sandown Park (BP Fairs)
mega toy fair is on 3rd March 2018 hopefully I'll be there, hope you make it,
it's one of the best general toy fairs in Europe, and the early-year one is
where everyone catches-up after the long winter and holidays, and clears their
stuff/stock to make room for new stuff/stock!
Running since December at the Victoria and
Albert Museum (V&A), this exhibition is due to end on the 8th April, so
it's still got two months to go. I remember seeing some of the drawings once,
possibly at the V&A (in a little room downstairs) and they are such
delicate things close-up, a collection of them will be a treat, if it's your
sort of thing; bear it in mind - doh!
This doesn't start until the 22nd February
and runs through to the 9th September (glad they're clearing it away before TLAPD!),
and if it's your kettle of ball game fish, go, enjoy, I find the whole thing a
bit silly, but there you are; not for the first time - I'll deliver my summing
up of superheroes . . .
. . . A guy (or gal) in a
tight-fitting/spray-on nylon/spandex/lycra/playtex swim-suit/leotard, who fell
in, got caught in the ray of, ate, drank, sniffed, suffered a spill of, was hit,
bitten or injected by something radioactive, diseased, secret or alien, and who
was probably adopted or is an orphan/ lost their parents at a young age to a
tragedy, is either a multi-millionaire, a scientist or both, declares
themselves to be dedicating their life/money/inventiveness to crime-fighting
and saving simpering-idiots caught in the paths of run-away things, probably
while pretending to be someone really boring or a bit ditzy (gals) or effete
(guys)!
It's plain formula, and the formula
continues as they get named after the trope that created them and dress-up like
it, maybe with knee-pads or a cape . . . and a mask; whether it's a bat or a
geographical phenomena! And they all have an Achilles-heel (kryptonite), which
reduces them to a gibbering-wreak, until the last page.
See; bloody silly! Anyone can do it . . ."Oh no! I've been multiply bitten by multiple
giant millipedes, I should be dead, luckily for me, the thin, rat-like jealous
guy on our expedition gave me radioactive porridge for breakfast hoping to kill
me and fake my will to inherited my tragically killed-young - by a run-away
man-hole-cover - parent's money, and the radioactivity seems to have combined
with the millipede venom to mean . . . I'm becoming . . . Pedoman! Oops! No;
I'm becoming Milliman . . no, no; he ruined the Labour Party . . .I'll get it
in a minute . . . The Manpeade . . . maybe, maybe not . . . Insectoid! Meet the
indestructible [unless you throw porridge at him, but not on the last page
please] Insectoid! Has there been an
'Insectoid'?I bet there has . . . Insect-o-man? Mansect? No that was David
Koresh . . . Mannipede . . euw, did he?
He could have a fringed-leotard to
represent all the little legs! And Antennae! And pincers on a bulging
codpiece! And he'd read the Fabulous
Furry Freak Brothers and Metal
Hurlant on his tea-brake!
Finally - it'll be three months on
Saturday! Best show in the world for vintage plastic!
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