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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.

Monday, November 19, 2018

J is for Junior!

Running late today - just a quick box-ticker for a set I picked-up from a Charity shop back in August.

All the main board-games (Cludo and Monopoly particularly so) are getting the arse ripped out of them these days as popular culture 'goes critical' and starts eating itself in line with Mr Warhol's prediction, he probably didn't realise the media and Western politics society would do likewise!


Anna; Board Game; board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Disney Film; Disney Frozen; Disney Movie Promotional; Disney PVC Toy; Elsa; Flecked Polymer; Game; Glitter Polymer; Hasbro; Hasbro Monopoly; Monopoly Board Game; Monopoly Junior; Movie Promotional; Olaf; PVC Figurines; PVC Rubber; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Among all the country, city, sports team and movie character, TV-series or celebrity versions are the 'junior' versions, and while they tend to have larger figural pieces, they can be only card flats. We have looked at several Cludo sets in the last 12 month's; here's a Monopoly set ticking the Disney and Frozen boxes and the figures are polymer!

Anna; Board Game; board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Disney Film; Disney Frozen; Disney Movie Promotional; Disney PVC Toy; Elsa; Flecked Polymer; Game; Glitter Polymer; Hasbro; Hasbro Monopoly; Monopoly Board Game; Monopoly Junior; Movie Promotional; Olaf; PVC Figurines; PVC Rubber; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Photographed against different backgrounds as they are semi-transparent, and as such showed a willingness to look different against different backings! Figures (glitter-PVC type plastic, 50-54mm compatible) added to the collection, rule-book scanned onto the dongles and everything else off to recycling!

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