. . . and while I'm making no promises for
next year, the Blog has managed to pull a small rabbit out of the hat, as at around
the 1st August there was one image in Picasa, the next one, and nothing on the horizon,
but due to donations from Brian B (Terranova), a contribution from Peter Evans
and a couple of last-minute purchases, there is quite a bit to look at today, which - apart from the bits in this post -
we'll look at in the order they were shot/came in, so let's get started!
These three came in a mixed bag from a
charity shop back in July, with the red one being one of those horrid, stretchy,
cold, clammy, 'wet-feel' silicon things so beloved of certain kids, and not
really destined to stay in the collection, but with nothing else for Halloween
at the time it was photographed as worth a shot, and I liked how he could carry
his commoner gum-ball/lucky-bag novelty skeletons like milk-bottles! As a
size-guide, they are about 60mm.
The skeleton on the left in the previous
picture is one of those modern semi-flat 'why did they bother?' types, but the
other one is older and fully round, with the key-chain/charm-loop removed he'll
pass muster in most of the recently issued skeleton armies, but he needs to
find a weapon!
Brian also sent the rather sparse display
from Scully & Scully's window on
a Halloween theme, let's hope the Christmas one is as good as previous years,
as they've barely tried for Halloween, although looking up flats the other day,
it's clear that while they produce plenty of Christmas and Easter stuff,
Halloween isn't something commonly available, being a more US-centric thing maybe, although getting ever more
commercialised in the UK these days. And I love the autumn trees.
Not really a Halloween thing; as I think
it's from He-Man (and the MOTU!); but where else do I post an evil looking
elf/sprite/Jawa type thing? It's not even evil, being the same 'annoying kid'
character many productions have, to give the younger viewers something to
connect-with while their elder siblings get into the latent sex and/or
ultra-violence, think: the space monkey from Fireball XL5, Tribbles, Jaja Binks . . . and there's always a brat or
two in Jurassic Park movies!
It's marked Hong Kong, and made of a spongy
yet dense rubber of the biscuity variety which has suffered both crumbling
damage and osmotic staining, it took several scrubs to get it clean enough for
posting, having had a hand in someone's pretty active and apparently quite
mucky childhood! Many thanks to Chris Smith or Jim (from Sandown) for this one I
think?
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