Look at them; they're shite, aren't they?
Don't ever think that just because I post it I must collect it, but I am a
collector and if something comes in with a mixed lot and looks to have
potential for a blog-post, or to enhance a thematic post, I'll run with it! And
there are dedicated collectors of both erasers and pencil-tops out there;
today's posts are as much for them as anybody.
They are very small, with holes that
normally wouldn't take a pencil, however, they are made from a soft
silicon-rubber and stretch over most 'normal' writing instruments. There seems
to be more than one set's contents here, with characters from various Disney films, although aimed firmly at
the pinky-purple pound - being all from the 'girly' films!
There is also - one assumes - at least one
metafleck'ed transparent set, from which the castle comes, The other glassy
item (next to the pencil sharpener) is I suspect damaged and missing anything
which may have been a clue to its identity other than 'squashed cone' or
builders safety-hat!
Backs are marked and branded to MZB Inc., a New York based importer/jobber also called MZB Imaginations LLC. You can see how they squidge-over the ends of the
pencils, becoming slightly portly in the process. And . . . err . . . that's
it.
This guy has an equally small hole and is
made of similar material, I think he may be an earlier tranche of moshling, or zomling or something - there seems to be dozens of the same kind of
pocket-money, blind-bag collectable around at the moment, with more released
over the last few years. But he's not marked, most are marked Moose or Magic
Box or something, this chap is 'clean'.
The oft-mentioned - back in the autumn -
post on the subject is still in the pipeline, but A) it's not a priority and B)
it keeps getting added to, which far from making things clearer - makes them
more confused! But I will do a brief 'overview' at some point.
This came in half an hour ago in a mixed
lot (Friday A.M.); not so much of a 'find' as a 'waited-in and signed-for'!
Soft PVC or similar, marked 'China' in the bottom of the recess and a little smaller
than Britains' earlier moulding, it's
obviously pretty current, but fun! I imagine zoo gift-shops have a selection of
animals on [writing] sticks?
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