It's funny how these things come together,
first we had a random shelfie (TV Batman)
in the autumn from Terranova, then a Toy Fair '18 report (there's still a
few in the queue!) with a couple more shelfies from Terra', which was a sort of
gradual ramping-up, then the other day we had the more synergeous sending of
more shelfies by Brian the very same day I bought the Supergirl from a dying Toysaurus,
and today (Wed. 26th) we had coincidence strike, twice; first when I found some
more being cleared for a bargain price and then minutes later when I popped
into the Asda (Walmart) next door.
A third coincidence could be said to be the
fact that I was only in Smyths to gauge
the impact of the nearest two Toys w'Я Them closing
earlier in the week - it hadn't had any noticeable effect on the relative emptiness
of the aircraft-hanger that is Farnborough's Smyths; almost equidistant between the Woking and Basingrad
carcases of the recently deceased behemoth that predates Smyths and set the model of business Smyths follows.
I wouldn't give you eight quid for five
40-mil-anythings, but at a fiver they are pretty-much the same as any run-of
the mill single figure at a show! And they do have that luscious, deep
lacquered finish that renders them a small joy to handle.
Also - as the gods clearly want them on the
blog - it's nice to have a closer look at a slightly larger sample and the first
thing we find is that bases vary with no, slight or marked-step undersides. The
second thing is they are bloody hard to get out of their vac-formed tray!
But, to the other coincidence; you see - on
the card-back - the two 'exclusive' figures? Three minutes after paying for
these, I saw both Guardians of the Galaxy
exclusives, in exactly the same paint, single-packed in Asda for . . . hummmm . . . should have shelfied them . . . £1.87p,
I think? It may have been eighty-nine pee? The point is - there's nothing
exclusive about them whatsoever!
It's the same fake news, marketing hype
& lies we get from everywhere we turn these days, the media, the internet,
politicians, local authorities, charities, web-giants, corporations, the orange
Brillo-pad, TJF, no-one's being straight with anyone any-more!
In passing, the importer Jaz Toys is the same as had supplied the
DC figure to the Toysaurus, but I didn't check the Asda card-backs.
The rears of the figures against their own
liner-card, I don't know if Spider Gore
is a 'Goodie' or a 'Baddie', but I suspect the later with a name like that, and
is a Black Costume Spider Man a
not-a-good-thing?
Still prefer DC - Supergirl will sort
this lot out before breakfast!
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