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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.

Sunday, December 16, 2018

A is for an Army of Arachnids!

A year ago I was still getting excited about these Phidal's as a discovery (by Spectrum), but now they've become a bit of a box-ticker, also, they are coming out with a frequency that Airfix would have envied back in the 1970's and - as such - prove there's nothing wrong with the market, just that tastes (and brands!) have changed.

Comic Characters; Dr. Octopus; Dr. Otto; Green Goblin; Kid Arachnid; Lizard; Marvel Characters; Marvel Comics; Marvel Spider-man; Marvel Spiderman; Novelty Figurines; Octavius; Peter Parker; Phidal Publishing; Phidal Spider-Man; Play Mat; Proto-Spidey; Rhino; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spider-Girl; Spider-Man 2099; Spider-Qwen; Venom; Vulture;
Picked-these up back at the beginning of August and - Spidey fans excepted - who knew? Who knew there were at least half-a-dozen of the little serum-contaminated blighters! There's girl ones, future ones, kid ones . . . they're everywhere! ♪♫♪♫ Spider-Man, Spider-Man . . . how many of you in the Clan? ♫♫♪



Comic Characters; Dr. Octopus; Dr. Otto; Green Goblin; Kid Arachnid; Lizard; Marvel Characters; Marvel Comics; Marvel Spider-man; Marvel Spiderman; Novelty Figurines; Octavius; Peter Parker; Phidal Publishing; Phidal Spider-Man; Play Mat; Proto-Spidey; Rhino; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spider-Girl; Spider-Man 2099; Spider-Qwen; Venom; Vulture;
Boo! Shout the panto' crowd! It's the Phidal bad-guys, and they're in front of you! How come all these spider-things don't have eight legs or eight eyes? Just sayin'! Rhino looks more like a Blood Bowl player, although I think that particular piece of Nottingham's real-estate was nicked from something published earlier in 2000AD, or am I thinking of Rollerball?!

Comic Characters; Dr. Octopus; Dr. Otto; Green Goblin; Kid Arachnid; Lizard; Marvel Characters; Marvel Comics; Marvel Spider-man; Marvel Spiderman; Novelty Figurines; Octavius; Peter Parker; Phidal Publishing; Phidal Spider-Man; Play Mat; Proto-Spidey; Rhino; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spider-Girl; Spider-Man 2099; Spider-Qwen; Venom; Vulture;
The best of a bad-assed bunch! I wrote the names on these as I guide for myself, 'cos I don't follow any of this, There are two movies out this Christmas, I think, I won't watch either of them, even when they come on DVD!

I've recently been catching-up on stuff I did half-intend to see, but was pretty disappointed; Will Smith's After Earth was unadulterated, self-indulgent, shite, with Cruise's Oblivion a better movie but so full of plot-holes and continuity/logic errors it was a poor excuse for Sci-Fi.

District 9 was actually better, but all three had week endings with the first two very 'Hollywood-mawkish' in the last minutes! I also watched Elysium, the sort of [not-a-]follow-up to District 9, and while it shared the earlier films gritty realism and production values, along with a CGI budget to match Oblivion, it also shared the Elysium plot . . . man with X-hours/days to live puts on armoured body-suit to [successfully] defeat baddies!

Comic Characters; Dr. Octopus; Dr. Otto; Green Goblin; Kid Arachnid; Lizard; Marvel Characters; Marvel Comics; Marvel Spider-man; Marvel Spiderman; Novelty Figurines; Octavius; Peter Parker; Phidal Publishing; Phidal Spider-Man; Play Mat; Proto-Spidey; Rhino; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spider-Girl; Spider-Man 2099; Spider-Qwen; Venom; Vulture;
What was new with this set was a 'blind-bag' element which may be to prevent pilfering? I've seen a couple like this now (with the figure compartment covered), but most are still viewable, there's a nice set of Transformers out there at the moment with robots that look just like 1980's gum-ball capsule prizes, or pencil-tops - without the hole!

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