Got a mixed bag from a charity shop a few
weeks ago and with a couple in the 'waiting to be sorted' pile tried to have a
competition, but the camera's flash washes-out the 'slope' and it just looks
like they've been strewn about on an old hankie! I can assure you it was the
Devil's own job getting the bears to stop sliding down, long enough to get the
shot in.
The newest additions to a collection which
you'd be forgiven for thinking has less and less to do with 'Toy Soldiers', but
that's more to do with my blogging more esoteric stuff, rather than endless
box-tickers of figures most people are familiar with!
I suspect these two are from a board game,
probably aimed at the 5-11 age bracket? But they might be from something more
'teenage'; there's a certain street-edge to their styling, I wouldn't be
surprised to find their profile sprayed on the side of Underground
rolling-stock!
This guy too is aiming for cool and trendy,
but he's marked with the current Kinder
'K', although as he's far too big for one of their pocket-money eggs and
doesn't seem to come apart (I've pulled him every-which-way!) he must be from a
Maxi-Egg, which - I noticed in Debenhams recently - are more common that they
used to be over here, being more of a Continental treat in the past.
He's also incomplete; that spigot is a
pretty standard Kinder thing, and is usually either a locating stud (into
something else) or a handle to be held by something/someone else. Also, while
he's too big for the standard eggs, he's a bit small to fill a Maxi-Egg?
Cakeboards; I've picked up a few of their pieces recently; they seem to occupy
the place of Gem/Festival (although
there are a couple of other players), albeit only in the dwindling number of
independent cake/craft shops or online, and working in poured vinyl-resin.
Seen before, but waiting in the TBS bag, so
he was dug-out and included in the 'photo-op'!
While we saw this guy a while ago, and
while I can't remembered who was responsible (possibly own-branded to a
supermarket?), I only started the Poly-clay tag for that Culpitt's soldier the
other day, so I can add him in, while I try to find the original post!
It's an irony - which may be keeping dentists in work - that Polyclay figurines look
exactly like sugar-craft figurines!
Snowboarding - it's strapping yourself to a
tea-tray!
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