L is for Loose Ends - Phidal

An odd 'season'; I have been storing these posts and bits up since we last looked at Phidal back in June/July (?) meaning to have a day or two day mini-season, but due to non-existant plans going AWOL over the last few days, they haven't even appeared in a block when I finally got rung to them, so they might as well have been published when they came-in or were ready, but such is sod's law when it comes to the aspirations of pink monkeys!

These are the current 'believed to be' Phidal pile, with a Marvel 'babe' (top left) we may or may not have seen in one of the sets we've looked at.

To the right; a bunch of Monsters Inc., including a 'woman' (I don't want to upset its sensibilities!) in purple furry moon-boots which I know is in a stash of unknown vinyl somewhere - when I get round to them; I know I'm going to find a pile of Phidal in the stash.

The lower line-up is the Disney set Brian Berke sent us shelfies of, back in the spring (or even late last year), I don't know what that Mickey Mouse outline thing with a wheel on a stick; it could be a record player? It could equally be a whacky unicycle or an instrument of torture!

Brain has responded by sending shelfies of another Disney set! For those who collect these as a separate 'field', they all fit in very well with all the old Comic Spain, Bully, Disney Store, Heimo, Mattel, and Schleich stuff, except they are new . . . and cheaper!

Shot as dated, both in TKMaxx. I think I've reported on WHSmith's reduceing their rip-off prices to something closer to 'max's? They now seem to phasing them out as stock-items altogether?

TK' however have carried more and more as the year progressed and the last time I was in there, they had moved to an aisle-end downmstairs with the Crimbo food, chockies and 'smellies' gift sets.

Note also that the lower shelves have other interactive books and similar packaged 'play-sets', while about 10% of the Phidal's are the magnetic or suction-cup things. The tins are mostly colouring-book (or other paper-media) sets, while the Zoomers look fun and the Frosen set seems to contain Lego-likey, compatible with the origianl Hestair-Kiddycraft Kiddybricks I'm sure!

The missing 'fatty-cat' from the Tinkerbell Fairy set the other day, I knew I'd seen it somewhere and with the delay to getting the Phidal posts published, it turned-up, and got shot!*

*No cats were harmed in the making of this post . . . but one got shooed-off the PC . . . twice!