I've also added two pairs of new pictures/screen-capchas to the Galoob page - numbers 40; pilot, and 41; a new carrier-deck bib-colour/base
variant.
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For any fans or collectors of tea, gum and
cigarette cards, The Card Scene
magazine (formerly Card Times) is the
one for you - if you've not found it yet? Six issues a year (each with up to 36
pages) for £17 seems reasonable value for money compared to other publications
of the same type.
Contact:
[cheques payable to Ace Card Ents]
Ace Card Enterprises (C/O J. Devaney)
10 Yelverton Road
Whitley
Reading
Berkshire
RG2 7SU
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Football News
The first casualty of the current pig's-bladder
kicking contest in Putin's war-mongering gulag may be Panini's UK-distributor Connect.
After some negative publicity earlier in the year over how many packs you'd
have to buy to guarantee a full set following - what seems to be an act of pure
profiteering - a price hike from 50p to 80p (about a Dollar or Euro), sales dropped,
leading to an ironic - if you accept my charge of profiteering - profits
warning last week!
Although this is not to mistake a profit
warning as equating to a lack of success; with or without a price hike the two
packs (single and x6) were the second and sixth best selling items in the toy
sector; week-ending 19th may, according to analysts NPD Group.
Nevertheless, Mark Cashmore the CEO of Connect has resigned and WHSmith the High Street newsagents
(themselves, recently declared worst shop on the said High Street by the
consumer watchdog Which?), felt the
need to organise an in-store 'Swap Event' (Saturday 2nd June) encouraging kids
(or dads?) to come in and swap their duplicates with each other, in order -
presumably - to minimise purchases, in the normal course of events I'd say
"You can't make this shit up"
but in the new Trumpundbrexit 'world order' it seems anything goes while we
wait patiently for the end!
The cause of all this was a work published
back in March by mathematics Professor Paul Harper who calculated the cost of
obtaining a full album to be a eye-watering £773.60p which is probably about
the same as my total toy-figure spend in two or more years.
With 32 squads to collect plus the special-page
and whole-team stickers it could be more, I'm not sure he's calculated the
potential inequality of the 'randomness' of packs contents (vis-a-vis batches
or waves) given that a sheet (seen at the printers - in the i
newspaper; Thursday, 7th June) only had 200 stickers on it (A1 sheet, 20x10),
suggesting different batches will have different duplicates - if you see what I
mean?
As far as other football playthings go, Match Attack and Top Trump football sets are also selling well at the moment.
Apparently football-related toy-sales have doubled in recent times for the
periods of each World Cup or Euro-Championship, making up 6% of toy sales in
those years, for a seasonal industry relying on Christmas and summer
'super-soakers' - that's not small beer.
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Toys in the Media! This is a current flyer
locally my friends got sent, for the central heating firm undertaking checks
for Vivid, who are the new name for
several local authority's preferred housing association. It looks to be a
library shot, possibly available on-line somewhere, as it's unlikely a central
heating company in Farnborough would have access to a HO-railway model of an
alpine chalet, but you never know! Anyone recognise the model/maker/brand?
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Returning to Galoob; my assistant - being as helpful as always - decided that
sorting the Micro Machine G.I's
numerically by base-mark is just not the sensible way to go at the task, in her
own words -
"Hughman
- You need to sort them leastest lastest, mostest firstest, and the red &
white ones can go on the floor for now, look, here; I'll do it for you, you're
obviously 'busy' faffing about with that camera!"
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