H is for How They Come In - Other stuff!

At Sandown as well as Jim's box, there was the usual purloining of plunder from around the six halls, but I'd sorted it before I shot the photo below, so I'll bulk the post out with some other recent acquisitions.

Back at the start of Rack Toy Month (Friday the third to be precise), I returned (loaded down with the Phidals to the bottom/right corner of the above image) to find a box from Peter Evans, from which we've already had dedicated posts on the knights and ninjas while the pirates and army-men enhanced more generic posts, the rest will all get their day in the limelight, but for now they get five-minutes fame!

Speaking of Phidal - I notice WHSmith have reduced theirs to £6, which is much better than what they were charging when I had a whinge!

So this was the Sandown Park plunder, there's stuff from Adrian, Gareth and Jim in there along with quite a few bits from Abid, including the three lorries (blue one marked Marx) and another of those Ruiz Land-Rover's.

Bata officer (his arm's in a separate bag!), cereal premiums, Yolanda Pink Panther, rubber Superman, Tom & Jerry pencil-tops, comic aircraft kit giveaways (in paper bag), Drevopodnik MP directing traffic, nice paint Cherilea Indian . . . all sorts!

The floor sweepings at the end of the show were particularly fruitful, with a kicking footballer complete and working, an equally undamaged Starlux cowboy and various bits for the 'bits boxes'!

Highlight - also from Abid, I think? I like the colours - the Italian flag - and also these don't seem to be Kleeware, but rather slightly cruder copies with no number-plates, Tudor Rose or some minor make?

Ooh! Are we sorting me a nest, great!

Another parcel from Peter arrived the other day, most of it will be held-over 'till next year's Rack Toy Month, but I may look at some over Christmas, we'll see how everything else goes!

Immediate highlights (from the bag of bits & bobs) are a cat and a 'combat babe' with a hollow back, which might be for a little polyethylene parachute, although there's no obvious tie-down points for shroud lines, so she may just be a real cheapie like that Prince and Princess I got from a pound-shop half-a-decade or so ago, who both had hollow-backs to keep unit cost down!

I've also been buying, the above have all come-in in the last three or four weeks, cake decorations form a closing-down shop, Mattel's JP from a charity shop and TKMaxx had reduced their bendy Superheroes to two-quid (presumably to make way for Christmas stock) so I grabbed a few of the smaller ones pairs (the larger singles were the same price) to go with the pair Brian B sent me over two years ago.

Since the above shot was taken, I've had half-a-set of Phidal fairies from a charity shop and a quid's-worth of dino'rasers from Poundland - it just keeps coming and I'll keep showing it!

We need a whole Phidal day, there's about five or six in the queue, Superheroes, Disney, Jungle Book, Fairies and something else and one's a contribution, so I need to pull my finger out there, but I'm also running around bringing the two collections together and photographing all sorts!

From various charity-shop buys and Jim's box along with other sources - this Summer's monkey business!