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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.

Saturday, September 22, 2018

F is for Follow-up - Hawaiian Ukulele Player

When we looked at these the other day, we were looking at cake-decoration sub-piracies in a soft polyethylene for 'Rack Toy Month' who were from the 'Unknown Ethnic Dress Civilians' box . . . well, these - here today - were in the large scale ethnic dancers tub!

Britains Ethnic Dancers; Britains Herald; Copies; Ethnic Dancers; Hawaiian Musicians; Hawaiian Ukulele Player; Herald Ethnic Figurines; Hong Kong Novelty; Hong Kong Piracy; Hong Kong Plastic Toy; Knock Offs; Made in Hong Kong; Musicians; Piracies; Plastic Novelty; Plastic Toy Figures; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Ukulele Player;
I don't actually have a hula-girl yet; Britains or full-size copy, but I got two ukulele players (in the 'big purchase' I think?) and a Hong Kong hard polystyrene clone at one of those 2009-11 shows.

From the left are Britains-Herald's original with an eight-colour paint scheme, in the middle the later reduced-paint version still has six because of the complicated sculpt with flower-garland (Lei) and instrument, while the Hong Kong copy-guy also has eight, but nicely (when you consider how closely those HK Trojan warriors followed Britains) in a new colour-way.
Original copy and images published by & (C) - Hugh Walter at 11:00 AM
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1 comment:

Hugh Walter said...

I found a Hard Plastic Hula girl copy over the weekend, but she has a flat base against this guy's hollowed-out Britains copy, erg; there are at least two figures still to find, a Hollow based girl and a flat based instrumentalist, both in polystyrene!

H

September 24, 2018 at 3:54 PM

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