You can also see here just how squidgy they
are and - courtesy of the 'Berserker' that they are around the 100mm mark. Many thanks to Brian for sending them.
About Me
- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- 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.
Friday, January 11, 2019
S is for Squat Squidgy Squadies and Safe Samurai 'Sassins
You may remember a while ago, Brian Berke
sent some shelfies to the Blog of these delightful little weirdoes, well; he
only went and sent the Blog some in his autumn parcel - didn't he!
Imported into the 'States by those new-old
favourites Greenbriar/DTSC, but
apparently on behalf of Imperial to
whom the figures are also branded, and they are a soft, hollow silicon rubber,
a bit like squeaky-toys but sans squeak, or; sans squeaker!
Ninjas; too cool for martial-arts school
and the colours are lovely; the camera's flash has reddened one, who - to the
eye - is a pinky-heliotrope sort of colour, while the purple one has reproduced
quite accurately. Style is slightly 'deform', or cartoonish with big heads,
hands and feet.
The cool colours extend to the generic (but
vaguely 'Fritz' helmeted) combat infantry, with butterscotch, mint and
blueberry, fairy-cake, icing hues! I have no idea how many colours there are in
ether line, nor - indeed - whether the rich colours of the Ninjas carry over to
the soldiers or the pastels vise-versa?
Equally I don't know how many poses there
are in either line, although they are numbered sequentially; so this may be
'it'. While the packaging carries the details of Greenbrier and DTSC (for
Canada) it carries the logo of Imperial,
however the figures are all marked Greenbrier
International.
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2 comments:
what’s the name of this toy?
Th label says 'Samurai' and I think the others were 'Soldiers'? They are counter-top novelties, so they don't really have a branding, beyond the importers label which will be different from country to country, or sales-territory to sales-territory (but they don't really exists like they used to. There may have been more on the counter-top box but I don't know?
H
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