It appears - from the hat - to have been
aimed at the Halloween market? Anyone know anything else about it? Wham-O or Uncle Milton perhaps?
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- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
F is for First Bendy?
Another cutting lost to the mists of time,
probably another syndicated piece from a Floridian paper, and it could be one
of the first 'Bendy Toys', if not the original, it's not something I've studied
that closely! LRM not LRG . . . go Bendy!
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Confiscated toys went to the very top of our kitchen dresser. My younger brother was notorious for coming home from school with small toys obtained by curious means. One time, in 1966, he came home with the first "Bendy" toy I ever saw. They were all the rage at school for a few weeks, and he tried bringing one home.
The Bendy was called "Mr Zebra", I think, but I don't know why. I've never seen one again and he fails to show up in Google searches. So far. I think the character had a bowler hat and the typical skinny limbs with wire inside. I also remember the day my mother put this confiscated item out with the old toys being sent off to The Smith Family appeal when we were getting ready to move house in 1971.
I have never found an image of him. But this one in your blog might be close!
The cauuting came from the James Chase collection, which extented from the late 1930's until about 1980 at the latest, so this could fit in with your target date of - what I gather to be - the late 60's?
Glad you found it! What's Andor like at this time of Universal Rythem, it's all a bit grim here at the moment, I'm afraid!
H
Cutting!
Looks like he's British, I picked one up today at Sandown Park toy fair, with made in England on the base.
11.11.11 lest we forget . . . we will remember them.
H
I have one of these and it’s at least 60 years old
Any ideas where I might find out more please?
None at all I'm afraid Anon, this is all I have on the subject after which I found an actual figure over here (UK), other than that nothing, I don't even know what paper this is from or when, but it could be as early as the 1940's from other stuff in the same collection?
H
Hi Hugh, thanks for your reply. I’ll keep looking and if I find anything, I’ll let you know.
Yes, do, I'm just as interested!
H
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