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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

P is for Peter

There's only one, and while I was worried when I heard the American's were getting their hands on him (visions of Pooh Bear getting a Mickey-Mouse nose flashed in front of my retinas), I'm pleased to say while the scriptwriters' DID shoe-horn a transatlantic character in, mercifully it wasn't a bunny!

Indeed, it (a cockerel) further; A) didn't get any clothes, so stays well out of the BP EU*, and B) was as good as stolen (as an idea) from the movie Chicken Run!

* Beatrix Potter Expanded Universe!

2018; 5740 Ferrier; Beatrix Potter; Bemjamin Bunny; Brock The Bagder; Canada; Cottontail; CTMG; Eliana Palucci; Film Character; Floppsy; Fredrick Warne & Co.; H4P 1M7; Interactive Books; Interactive Toys; Jemima Puddle Duck; Montreal; Moppsy; Movie Promotional; Mr Fox; Mrs Tiggywinkle; NN10 6BQ; Northamptonshire; Peter Rabbit; Phidal Book; Phidal Peter Rabbit; Phidal Publishing; Pigling Bland; PVC Figurines; PVC Toy; PVC Vinyl Animals; PVC Vinyl Rubber; Quebec; Rushden; Sanders Lodge Industrial Estate; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Squirrel Nutkin; The Sandy Whiskered Gentleman; TKMaxx; UK;
Also it's clear that the rights-holder F Warne (or their agents) kept a close eye on (and decision-making role in-) the film. As I haven't seen it yet I can't say whether the cockerel ruins it or not, but the stills I have seen (mostly in this Phidal set!) look very good and the figurines here, are lovely.

2018; 5740 Ferrier; Beatrix Potter; Bemjamin Bunny; Brock The Bagder; Canada; Cottontail; CTMG; Eliana Palucci; Film Character; Floppsy; Fredrick Warne & Co.; H4P 1M7; Interactive Books; Interactive Toys; Jemima Puddle Duck; Montreal; Moppsy; Movie Promotional; Mr Fox; Mrs Tiggywinkle; NN10 6BQ; Northamptonshire; Peter Rabbit; Phidal Book; Phidal Peter Rabbit; Phidal Publishing; Pigling Bland; PVC Figurines; PVC Toy; PVC Vinyl Animals; PVC Vinyl Rubber; Quebec; Rushden; Sanders Lodge Industrial Estate; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Squirrel Nutkin; The Sandy Whiskered Gentleman; TKMaxx; UK;
From the left; Peter, Benjamin, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail! The figures are slightly more realistic than Ms. Potter's original watercolours, more in keeping with the 'live action' (CGI'ed) movie.

2018; 5740 Ferrier; Beatrix Potter; Bemjamin Bunny; Brock The Bagder; Canada; Cottontail; CTMG; Eliana Palucci; Film Character; Floppsy; Fredrick Warne & Co.; H4P 1M7; Interactive Books; Interactive Toys; Jemima Puddle Duck; Montreal; Moppsy; Movie Promotional; Mr Fox; Mrs Tiggywinkle; NN10 6BQ; Northamptonshire; Peter Rabbit; Phidal Book; Phidal Peter Rabbit; Phidal Publishing; Pigling Bland; PVC Figurines; PVC Toy; PVC Vinyl Animals; PVC Vinyl Rubber; Quebec; Rushden; Sanders Lodge Industrial Estate; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Squirrel Nutkin; The Sandy Whiskered Gentleman; TKMaxx; UK;
Other characters include Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddleduck, Pigling Bland and Mrs. Tiggywinkle, although I think Pigling should have been a bit smaller and Mrs T a tad larger perhaps, especially when you see the next two - below.

There's no real scale in the books as each is a self-contained story, but the Tale of Peter Rabbit, does have a human in it, and that human is to scale with the rabbits, so I guess the movie had to tip a nod to that by making them more equivalent to each other in real life, but then . . .

2018; 5740 Ferrier; Beatrix Potter; Bemjamin Bunny; Brock The Bagder; Canada; Cottontail; CTMG; Eliana Palucci; Film Character; Floppsy; Fredrick Warne & Co.; H4P 1M7; Interactive Books; Interactive Toys; Jemima Puddle Duck; Montreal; Moppsy; Movie Promotional; Mr Fox; Mrs Tiggywinkle; NN10 6BQ; Northamptonshire; Peter Rabbit; Phidal Book; Phidal Peter Rabbit; Phidal Publishing; Pigling Bland; PVC Figurines; PVC Toy; PVC Vinyl Animals; PVC Vinyl Rubber; Quebec; Rushden; Sanders Lodge Industrial Estate; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Squirrel Nutkin; The Sandy Whiskered Gentleman; TKMaxx; UK;
. . . that doesn't account for the small [-er] size of Mr Brock or the Sandy Whiskered Gentleman (an eggcellent babysitter . . . not!)? Nor the relatively vast size of the international interloper!

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