What appears to be a bit of
'Euro-clearance' from Italy, but it may have been available here earlier in
somewhere like the late Toysaurus,
and related to an Italian kid's TV-series La Cassa delle Api (the bee house/house
of the bees), I only bought it for one item, but we'll look at the whole thing
'cos it's there!
After umming and aah'ing, I kept the three
'toys of toys', put the bee in the charity-shop pile and recycled the bed and
hexagonal bin (bee comb - see?!). While the packaging and all other ephemera
was in Italian - apart from an English age-restriction sticker - I would
imagine some UK kids are familiar with it as the nature of the Internet and
multi-channel broadcasting means most things tele-visual (or clips of them) are
available somewhere, these days?
But this is what I was after! Is it a Bee
Bear or a Bear Bee? A Teddy-bee? It can't be a Honey-bear, I know what they
look like - I'm not stupid! It's too cool for nursery-school (about my level!),
it's a Bumble Bear!
There's a mini bi-plane and a mini
locomotive too, and you'll know from past posts that I am slowly amassing
side-collections of both, but the bear is the best! The Bee; 'Buzzbee', has a fold-down hook so he can
do a bit of zip-wire action, along a cable in one of the bigger play-sets.
Some of the other sets available at the time
(2014); I've seen no evidence of them being part of this import tranche, and
with none of them having anything like a stripy bear, I'm not concerned,
although the little ladybird looks fun.
The problem with a globalised toy market is
trying to make sense of who (or to whom) the toy can actually be attributed for
the purpose of archiving the post after Blog-publishing, this appears to be
manufactured (in China by an unnamed contract manufacturer) for Mookie Toys, on behalf of Space Enterprises licensed or licensing
from/to Hive Enterprises (the TV
company?), distributed (in Italy?) by Nice
Group in collaboration with Junior
Distribution who may (or may not) be responsible for it's turning up in the
UK on Poundworld Plus's shelves!
I will archive it under Mookie and Space with a cross-reference (eventually on the A-Z Blogs) to Hive!
Of course it's all childish, but if I gave
you nothing but wall-to-wall Marx, Cherilea and Airfix you'd soon get bored . . . and it was a quid, you know . . .
a quid, why would you walk past it - it's got a 20mm bear in it . . . with
stripes!
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