Well, on the day of publishing these dates,
it will be a month since Santa emptied his sack! Hey; the oldies are the
goodies - once a year and only down a chimney! And when these dates are spent,
it will be the first of February, a month has gone by; we are a twelfth of the
way through the year . . . where does it go?
I still haven't done the review of Plastic Warrior from December (issue
173) I'll try to get it written-up this coming week, I can tell you it was full
of good stuff!
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 26th January 2019
Nothing, nada, nix, zilch . . . put your
feet up or do a bit of admin!
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Sunday 27th January 2019
Barry (not '-Island') - Chris Dyer Fairs
Barry Leisure Centre, Greenwood Street,
Barry, Wales, CF63 4RU
Tel. - 01643
702 757
Mob. - 07966
694 579
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission £2
Lincoln - J&J Fairs (John
& Julie Webb)
The Exhibition Centre, Lincolnshire
Showground, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 2NA
Tel. - 01522 880 383
10:00 - 14:30hrs Approximately
Admission £2.50p, seniors £2, 1st child
£1.50p
Shepton
Mallet - Bulldog
Fairs
Royal Bath & West Showground, BA4 6QN
Tel. - 01373 452 857
Mob. - 07917 125 641
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Adults £4, under 16's free if accompanied,
early-bird (from 08:30hrs) £10.
Wirral - Barry Stockton Fairs - Merseyside Hobbies & Model
Railway Show
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Tuesday 29th January 2019
Garstang - Janet Pearson -
Garstang Evening Fair
Kirkland & Catterall Memorial Hall, PR3
0H
Web-presence unknown
01282 439 009
18:00 - Finnish
Admission fee unknown
Tonbridge - SRP Toyfairs (evening fair)
Angel Lane,
Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1SF
Tel. - 07739
998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
18:00 -
20:00hrs
Admission
£1.50p, Children Free
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Auctions
Saturday 26th January 2019
Elstree - Excalibur
Auctions (day 2 of a 2-day auction, day 1: yesterday)
The Village
Hotel, Elstree, Hertfordshire, WD6 3SB (venue)
Ciltern
Buisness Centre, Woodside Road, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 6AA (office)
02036 330
913
Free Tea or
Coffee
Collectables,
posters, memorabilia
Note - not 'Aversham' as advertised elsewhere
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Tuesday 29th January 2019
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis
Auctions (1st day of a two day auction)
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
01642 750 616
Dolls, bears and soft-toy sale
Stieff monkey
The Doll and Teddy Bear sale to be held on the 29th of January features two private owner collections. The North Yorkshire Rupert the Bear Collection, features 51 lots of bears, diecast vehicles, jigsaws, puzzles and games, pictures, books and annuals, figurines and collectables from the popular character; and The Joan Donachie Collection Part 1, includes 163 lots of miniature vintage animals and bears, including Schuco and Steiff and "Solider Bob" a soldier bear. The collection also includes British vintage bears from Chiltern, Chad Valley, Farnell, Tyford and Merrythought, plus others, as well as French, German and American bears. Other items in the sale include Artists bears, Charlie bears, Chic-a Boo, Sally B Gollies and Gills Gollies and teddies, plus hard plastic, vinyl and porcelain dolls from Palitoy, Pedigree, Zwergnase, Anette Himstedt and many others. There is a selection of dolls clothing and fabrics, plus wigs, accessories and magazines, and a number of trade boxes of Barbies.
Joan Donachie
You would be hard pressed to come across anyone who was more passionate about teddy bears than Joan Donachie. Her quaint cottage, nestled in Barmill, near Troon held a treasury of furry friends in all shapes and sizes; from exquisite early Steiff, Chad Valley and Terrys, Chilterns, Pedigrees and Merrythought to more modern Steiff limited editions, mohair miniatures, Russ, Gantz and TY Beanies.
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Wednesday 30th January 2019
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis
Auctions (2nd day of a two day auction)
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
01642 750 616
TV and movie-related sale
The TV & Film sale to be held on the 30th of January features a large collection of Star Wars items, including carded, boxed and loose figures, playsets and vehicles, signed pictures, trade catalogues, graded figures and the black series 6" scale models. Other items in the sale include Action Man figures, vehicles, accessories and clothing, Dr Who, Batman, Gerry Anderson and many others. There are trading, cigarette and lobby cards, film posters, comics and annuals, books, computer games, Lego, jigsaws, Subbuteo and much more.
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Thursday 31st January 2019
Sheffield - Shefield Auction Gallery
Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield, S8 8UB
Tel. - 0114 281 6161
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Friday 1st February 2019
Bedford - W & H Peacocks
Eastcoats Park, Wallis Way, Bedford,
Bedfordshire, MK42 0PE
Tel. - 01234 266 366
Viewing - Friday 25th January from
09:00-20:00hrs; Saturday 26th January from 09:00-16:00hrs; Thursday 31st
January from 09:00-18:00hrs and from 09:00hrs on the morning of the sale.
Collectable toy auction
Poole - Cottees Auctions Limited
Mannings Heath Road, Poole, Dorset, BH12
4NQ
Tel. - 01202 723 177
Viewing 10.00-17.00hrs on Thursday 31st
(10:00-17:00hrs) and from 9.00-10hrs on the 1st of February.
Sale starts 10:00hrs
General toy sale
Two auction-sale's on the same day? Never a
good sign if you are a seller at either, lucky for buyers though!
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Overseas Events
Sunday 27th January 2019
Orleans - Mini Auto 45 / GTO - 40th
Toy Fair
Parc Des Expositions, Orleans, France
Tel. - +33 (0) 683 195 676
09:00 - 17:00hrs
Admission €5
Five Euros for browsing 350-odd tables?
That's cheaper than any equivalent show in the UK . . . but it won't be after march 29th!
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If you are
an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model,
collectable or popular-/youth-culture type sale/exhibition/event listed here - FOR FREE
- or linked to; please eMail me -
maverickatlarge[at]hotmail[dot]com
- stating
the date/s of the event, address of event, contact details, opening/viewing
times, admission pricing and any other relevant facts/details or features -
parking, travel notes, disability access, availability of refreshments, event
subject matter &etc.
And please
mention any flyer-art or poster-/leaflet-scans but send by separate eMail, in
case they go to the 'junk' folder,
from where they can be recovered and marked safe, but only if I know they're
there!
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London Toy Fair
I am working on the Toy Fair stuff, but
that'll start publishing fully next week, nothing really exciting, Papo have a couple of new figures and
some lovely big-cats, Airfix have
announced the WWI figures will be re-issued this year just in time for the
100th anniversary of the year after the year the war ended, which is lovely
timing! They also have full D-Day 75th celebration stuff, including most of the
WWII figure sets in both small scale and 54mm
They also have most of the small scale AFV
range back in the catalogue (everything except the lost SAM-2 'Guideline' I think, both recent sculpts and the older ones.
Of more interest to larger scale modellers is a range of 1:35 AFV's, mostly
German (including two versions of Hetzer),
but they are still only sketched-out with CAD-drawings in the catalogue, so given Hornby's recent history of
announcements, we'll see what develops later in the year - don't hold your
breath!
Both Airfix
and Revell have re-issued their
Apollo 11 stuff for the 50th anniversary of Armstrong's small step, both
companies also seem to be carrying the same lifeboat model! Airfix also have a boxed set with both
the styrene Lunar Lander Module kit and the ethylene figure set in one box. Revell's other military stuff is very disappointing,
but a nice 1:72nd U-Boot was on their stand.
I encountered the MD of Schilling on the Tobar stand, they are American not German, they are
importers/wholesalers, they do work with Supreme in China and Mr. Sell needs to understand that bullshit
will always come-out and makes a mess if you're the one holding it.
Schilling have some lovely retro tin-plate robots in their lists this year
and are shipping into the UK by Tobar,
to whom Hawkins Bazaar are (as
suggested here in the past) a wholly-owned subsidiary, but with their own buyer/stock
regimen, beyond that which Tobar
imports.
HGL (Grossman as was) are
about to set the UK alight with trick fly-filled, dog-poo slime, look for it
under similar importer/jobber labels in your own territories (Jaru, Postler?)! Not a Small Scale World thing (although the flies would
go in the fly bag!), but a likely next craze/summer craze, so newsworthy and a
100% improvement on loombands, or even glitter unicorn-poop!
I had a good chat with the people at GaleForceNine (GF9), and after explaining I had waxed lyrical over their Sci-fi
and Fantasy stuff a year ago, but struggled to say nice things about the AFV
stuff the other day was told that figure sets are on the way for those 'real
world' gaming systems, and by 'on the way', it was explained they are in a
container on the high-seas as I write.
They also had pre-production test-shots of
a new 28mm game based on the Alien
franchise, which make Nottingham's Genestealers © (P) ® Reg. TM,
look like . . .errr . . . the poor imitation rip-offs they always were! They
also had news of add-ons for Firefly
and Star Trek and are still hoping to
expand the figure range for the Dr. Who
game showcased last year.
Also on the theme of 'nearly here', the Oxford Rail British rail-gun we looked
at here (which looked questionable months later) is apparently about to hit the
market. I wouldn't hold your breath, but a modicum of excitement is probably
safe! While parent; Oxford Die-Cast,
have a lovely RAF Bloodhound set with a better Lanny' than the old Airfix one!
Amerang are shipping NJCroce's
bendable figures this year and a re-boxing of the Eaglemoss readymade die-cast & plastic AFV's, which are now in Solido-branded packaging. Schleich had nothing to report really. Bandai had nice (but 'New Movie') Thunderbirds stuff, which I will send toMoonbase
in a week or so.
Gibson's
Games (one of our longest-lasting, independent,
board-game companies) have a new game with figures; Crystal Hall, the figures, four each in four colours, are witches
around the 25/28mm size, but sadly all the same, single design/moulding.
And that's it for the headlines, most of
the above will get separate posts in the next few weeks, along with a few
others things I thought were worthy of a few shots . . . or this time next year
if Picasa hides them again!
I didn't take so many shots this year
270-odd (against 400-odd last time), and no video (light was too poor), but -
with a new camera - I've deleted less, so it'll work itself out and it's all
grist to the mill!
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Violence
Away from the show and across the pond, a
nutter in Wisconsin took an axe to the family car when he thought his wife had
damaged his action figures! WTF? He also destroyed the family's TV and laptop
in his fit of rage. Police reported the 34-year old gentleman had been drinking
prior to the incident - no shit Sherlock; I bet he voted Trump!
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Weekend
I don't think I'm going to post anything
else 'till . . . probably Tuesday? Been a busy week and while I had the last of
the Kiwi's and a bunch of Caveman stuff for the weekend I haven't got round to
the blurb and will probably spend the weekend backing-up my Dongles, there's 12
of them and they each take about three hours which is a chunk of spare time I
haven't really got!
Ryman's have been doing a January deal on Intergral Easyslide's; two x 32GB drives for a tenner and I've
decided to replace all my Verbatim
Pinstripe's after the problem over Christmas, with two new ones; a 'worker'
and a back-up, but it means splitting the 64GB drives into two, which is four,
all-in!
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