Bits in salmon-pink are later additions, notes or further information supplied by others.
Bits in Khaki-green are 'work-in-progress' listings and anyone is welcome to add missing details, whether single items or whole chunks.
All photographs are 6.5 (old Fuji), 8.3 (Samsung) or 16 (new Nikon) Mpx, and most will blow up to greater than screen size if you hover on them and click. However I've noticed some of the older images aren't enlarging, this is probably a Blogger/Picasa/date/traffic/auto-archive thing?
If you think you can add some information, or identify any of the 'unknowns', please use the comment feature rather than emailing me.
Bold; denotes 'real-world' product titles or nomenclature - sometimes!
Please report any dead links, and suggest any links you think should/could be added.
Note I have now found out how to switch-off the slide-show thingy, so just clicking on the photographs will open them on a whole page where most will then enlarge further with another click - if the cursor is in a 'plus' sign.
This doesn't seem to work for some of the older posts, this is a Blogger/Internet coding change thing I can do nothing about, one day I'll update or replace the more important ones but that's years away.
While waiting for an ok to join the RPG Bloggers network, I became a bit
frustrated.
So, here is a current blogroll of 1000+ English Language RPG blogs, an...
... and with strange aeons even death may die.
I'm not dead, just working on something else. That "something else" should
be released before the end of the...
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.
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!
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?
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!
For those not used to Blogger, the below 'index' allows you to find similar posts by their content, just click on the label (word) that best suits you search needs. I have tried to label by
- Country of origin of toy - Country represented by toy - Maker - Material - Scale/Size/Ratio - Era represented by toy - Whether subject is civil/military - Other 'themes' Etc...
Re-annotating the index is an ongoing project, in the meantime to save on space (there is a limit on the number of characters and the number of labels) I have started using abbreviations, which are as follows:
All other abbreviations are part of the recognised name of a company or organisation.
The hiarachy of the listing pushes non-standard letters to the end of the section so Märklin (with an umlaut) is the last 'M' &etc...the Cyrillic lettered brands are at the end of the whole list.
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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!
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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.
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