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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

R is for Rockin' Rack-toy Ravers in Raffia Rah-rahs!

So, I dug into another box! Actually I was looking for something else, fount these three bags and thought "They'll make a nice rack-toy month post!", so here they are!

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Straight piracy of the Britains Hawaii pair but with one of the more ornate Hong Kong palm tree's you'll encounter, all mounted on a little base as a vignette, and while it may have been available as a novelty toy all over the place, I guess sold in larger numbers as a Hawaiian tourist trinket, or in similar territories for the same reason?

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The 8 components; the girl is attached to a small spring, which is wound into the larger base-hole (so she can jiggle and wiggle her little tush with a flick or a shake) and she has a separate skirt - I don't know if they come in other colours - while the tree is well-burdened with coconuts!

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Other piracies of Britains native dancers are available, and here Maid Marion has popped-over to see what all the fuss is about! She has a green base so probably also belongs with the more normal Robin Hood cake-decoration copies (we've looked at a bagged Friar Tuck here in the past) but was in the bags with the Hawaiian pairs as triple-figure sets, again - like the Robin Hood figures - cake-decorators seem to be the target customers.

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I have a darker-skinned girl (should that be duskier? Do the 'PC-Brigade' even allow "dusky maiden"? Probably not!) with a damaged foot (no spigot), she has a yellow-plastic skirt too.

While on the end of the line is a very poor 3rd/4th generation copy, probably from the same source as some of the equally-poor African Warrior copies you find; certainly she has the same uneven 'made in Hong Kong' letter-stamped on her base in a sort of 'typewriter' font.

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