The pages are simpler than Phidal's, being pretty basic with a
couple of rendered, low-resolution CGI kitten images on the cover - they look
like they may be TV related, but I've never heard of Fluffy? But the story is actually more fully formed than the
thumbnail 'captions' of most of the Phidal
examples I've seen.
[Google suggests it's piggy-backing a more well known 'Fluffy the Kitten' touch & feel book?]
The big difference is that rather than
commissioning their own figures, they have taken off-the self generic items
from China, which we have actually seen here at Small Scale World before twice
- or at least the cats we have, the dogs are obviously taken from a sibling
set.
We first saw them when Brian Berke donated
a blistered set (branded to MTC) to
the blog, and while I was very good and left it sealed, I then found them in a
plain bulk bag (branded to Amscan) in
a party shop, all this about a year ago? Two years ago? Doesn't matter, these
are they!
The above shot actually adds to the overall
count, as my find had several duplicates both with its own contents and with
Brian's four-different sculpts, we now have a fine orange bi-colour and a
stripy marmalade and black! Being 'off-the-self', none of the models equate to Fluffy's artwork!
This [unknown] dog was added by the owner
of the set, has clearly had more play than the others, may have been the owners
favourite and he or she may be heartbroken to find Mum's given it to charity, I
should fell a heel, but I don't; as I don't know it's real history!
The other weird thing about this set is
that the enclosed animals - while being nice, certainly fine for a kid and having
great play value - bear little relationship to the fleshed-out story which
involves a rabbit and hedgehog among other things, well not many; another cat,
a dog, a puppy and a little girl!
Fluffy snuggles-up with the rabbit for a
happy ending! All the cats I've ever known have found the happier-ending
involving rabbit was as a meal . . . except George P's cat, which used be
chased round the carefully chicken-wired garden by a rabbit twice its size!
A couple of fuzzy shelfies I took in TKMaxx of another issuer of these sets,
this one from Igloobooks has four
figures and a cartoon cat and dog, TV related, large scale - shelfies are all
I'll ever need to ID them in loose lots, the people will likely go back-out to
charity if they turn-up.
Igloobooks and Century Publishing; two new tags
in one post, rare these days!
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