Currently in The Works, there seems to be only the three variations and the only
variation is the figure, so to get all three you need £18, and will end-up with
a lot of duplicate stuff, so a Shelfie seems to be the answer for future
identification when they turn up loose.
The figures are around the 54mm mark, with
two subscale tractors and animals in various sizes. The square 'tube' is quite
long - you can see about a third in this shot - as there is a play-mat in the
lower section.
Going, going . . . fire sale at Poundworld will end soon, these are -
clearly - a bit 'pink and girly' but they are solids, around 80mm, and again,
should they turn-up in mixed lots in a year or a few; label them ITP Imports!
Twins! Vacuous-looking twins at that!
I think I shot these in TKMaxx and I just like the fact that
other brands are fighting back against the hegemony of Lego with cool licenses of their own, Brian B has sent me a
fantastic Bending Unit which will go in the next Lego-likey post!
Wilco-branded (Wilkinson's - the
real reason Woolworth's died), these
are large, mixed scale PVC type animals, and again will help ID them in the
future.
Back to the closing-down sale at Poundworld Plus here in town, these were
reduced to 80p so I got the blue one . . . motorcycle! The vehicles are really
'cheap and nasty' and typically - for these days - no military option, but a
motorcycle is not to be sniffed at; for less than a quid!
These are statuette crayons, with a
pointed-bit hidden behind the battlements of the catchy packaging. With a King,
Queen, princess, wizard and witch; that soldier's got a lot of guarding to do!
But they're figural! NPW, who's
novelties have featured here several times in the last few years; these were
shot in TKMaxx.
These . . . TKMaxx . . . I just don't really get? It's apparently a glass
drying mat, but with four semi-flat ballet-dancers. How are you supposed to dry
the glasses? If you catch the dancer as you place the glass over it with wet
hands you may drop the glass, what about shallow glasses? What about narrow
champagne flues, or champagne bowls, why only room for four? Or do you place
the glasses between the dancers, in which case; why have them? And even if
that's the case there's only room for about six, and no mugs, the handles will
get in the way - the whole concept is just daft!
A triumph of farty-art idea over
practicality, hundreds of people were involved in designing, tooling, producing,
packing, procuring and shipping this Caca!
It seems to me to be a sublime example of
everything that's wrong with consumerism, as espoused by Thatcherite-Raganomics
and the mantra of 'market forces' for the last 39 years. A totally impractical,
ill thought-out, relatively unnecessary product, packaged to appeal to a
certain type of 'lifestyle' cretin or brain-dead fashion-victim! People with
bows behind their family pictures, matching his'n'hers anoraks and pink loo
paper! The same people who've been buying waistcoats over the last two weeks.
The figures have fully-round skirts and
plinths, but chunky block-flat bodies, they are silicon-rubber (I think),
around 50mm (not counting the base) and could be fun; taken off the mats and
displayed with the Britains, Gem and other dancers, but they
represent our need to keep consuming until there's nothing left, it's not a
good sign.
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