Even where the 'Right' (wrong!) did well in
the recent Euro-elections, they have silently dropped calls for Frexit, Dexit,
Italexit etc . . . and decided to work with the EU! Here, however we are about
to let nought-point-nought-something of the population elect a blustering
serial liar, resigner and runner-away as our next PM, while in the US they
appear to be legalising gerrymandering, while kids drown! You can't make this
shit up!
The two bodies in the Rio Grande are no
different from the boy on a Mediterranean beach a few years ago, from the thousands
who have drowned in the same sea, from the burnt cadavers in the charred ruins
of Rwandan Churches, Tamil bungalows or Burmese huts; the beheaded of Iraq and
Syria; the mass-graves outside Goražde; the kids barrel-bombed in Alepo, or
those sunken-eyed skeletal children pressed against the wire in Belsen.
And behind the never-ending list of the
pink-monkey's awfulness, are people like Mr Putin.
Seems to be a good week for railway fans .
. . get out and buy yourself a toy - you deserve it, everybody deserves a toy,
and remember old-toy buying is 'recycling'; very green!
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 29th June 2019
Ditton (Kent, not Thames-) - SRP
Toyfairs
Ditton Community Centre, Kiln Barn Road,
Ditton, Kent, ME20 6AH
Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk
eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
New Date - New Venue
Nelson
Treharris - Martyn
Parry - Model Railway Exhibition
Llancaiach Fawr Manor, Nelson Treharris,
Wales, CF46 6ER
eMail - m.parry387@btinternet.com
Tel. - 01443 837 646
Mob. - 07990 752 102
10:00-16:00hrs
Admission £3.00, under-16's free
Free parking, disabled access, refreshments
Exhibision layouts and trade stands
Oswestry - Chris Dyer Fairs
The Pavillion, Owestry Showgrownd, Park
Hall, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY11 4AS
Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £2
London (Chalk Farm) - Guideline Publications - London Toy Soldier Show
Haverstock
School, 24 Haverstock Hill, Chalk Farm, London, NW3 2BQ
Web. -
www.toysoldiershow.co.uk
eMail - kim@guidelinepublications.co.uk
Tel. - 01908
274 433
10:30 -
16:00hrs
Admission
£6, early bird (from 09:30hrs) £10, late hares £4 - after 14:00hrs
Parking £5
(reasonable for London!)
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Sunday 30th June 2019
Catterick
Garison - Jim
Corr - Toy, Train & Sci-fi Fair
Catterick Garrison Leisure Centre, Gough
Road, Catterick DL9 3EL
eMail - jim_corr73@hotmail.co.uk
Mob. - 07504 035 955
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission £3, child/seniors £2, early bird
£5
Free Parking, café
Exhibition layouts
Colwyn
Bay - Chris
Dyer fairs
Colwyn Bay Lesuire Centre, Eirias Park,
Colwyn Bay, Conway, Wales, LL29 7SP
Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £2
Eastleigh
- Steven
Clements Fairs
Barton Peveril Sixth Form Collage, Chestnut
Avenue, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO50 5ZA
eMail: clementfairs@aol.com
Tel. - 01380 725 322
Mob. - 07958 101 891
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Newton
Abbot - Ray
Heard Train & Toy Fairs
Newton Abbot Racecourse, Devon, TQ12 3AF
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01823 480 097
10:00 - 15:30hrs
Admission £2.00
Free parking, refreshments
Orpington - SRP Toyfairs
Crofton Halls, Orpington, Kent, BR6 8PR
Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk
eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Spalding - J&J Fairs (J&J
Webb)
Springfields Events & Conference
Centre, Camelgate, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE12 6ET
Web. - www.j-jwebbtoyfairs.com
eMail - jandjfairs@virginmedia.com
Tel. - 01522 880 383
10:00 - 14:30hrs
Admission - Adult £2.50p, seniors £2, 1st
child £1.50p
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Wednesday 3rd July 2019
Hertford - Joe Lock Fairs (Evening
Fair)
Richard Hale School, Hale Road, Hertford, Hertfordshire,
SG13 8EN
Internet presence unknown
Mob. - 07866 641 215
19:00-21:00hrs
Admission £1
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Auctions
Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Tunbridge
Wells - C&T
Auctioneers
The York Suite, The Spa Hotel, Mount
Ephraim, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8XJ (Venue)
Unit 4, High House Business Park,
Kenardington, Near Ashford, Kent, TN26 2LF (Auction House)
Web. -
www.candtauctions.co.uk
eMail - enquiries@candtauctions.co.uk
Valuations - jamesopie@yahoo.co.uk
Tel. - 44 1233 510 050 (from abroad)
Tel. - 01233 510 050 (within the UK)
Viewing from 08:30hrs, sale starts 10:00hrs
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Other Events
From Now until Monday 9th September 2019
Cardiff - Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N.
St. David's Shopping Centre, 7 Bridge
Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 2EF
Interactive superhero 'event' running
through the holidays
Previously announced here as London
(Victoria Dock), that ended in May I think?
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From Now until Friday 30th August 2019
Various
Locations - Scotland - DC Thompson Media - Oor Wullie's Big Bucket Challenge
A variation of the Nutcracker/Giant Animal
trails held locally and reported here at Small Scale World passim, there is a
statue trail through Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness,
featuring the old comic-book character
Web. - www.oorwullie.com
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Saturday 29th June 2019
Plymouth - City Council/Babcock
Engineering - Armed Forces Day
The Hoe, Plymouth, Devon
Web. - plymoutharmedforcesday.co.uk
Live music (military bands and the Military
Wives Choir), military and flying displays
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Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th June 2019
Perth - Perth &
District Model
Railway Group
(PMRC) - Celebration of Model Railways
Dewars Centre, Glover Street, Perth,
Scotland, PH2 0TH
Web. - http://smet.org.uk/show-pmrc (club
page)
Web. - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/142112-perth-model-railway-exhibition-29-and-30-jun-2019/
(hobby page)
10:00-17:30hrs (Saturday June 29th)
10:00-17:00hrs (Sunday June 30th)
Admission £9.00 adults, £4.00 chirldren.'family
ticket' (2 adults + 2 children) £20.00
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Overseas Events
Sunday 30th June 2019
Gujan-Mestras (France) - L'association Starlux Generation Beffara
- Une
Bourse aux Figurines, Miniatures et Trains (A market for figures,
miniatures and model trains)
Maison des Arts, Rue Edmond Daubric (face à la gare - facing the station), 33470 Gujan-Mestres, Gironde, France
Web. - http://www.tvba.fr/agenda/bourse-aux-figurines-miniatures-trains-2/
(third party site)
eMail - starlux.association@gmail.com
09:00 - 18:00hrs
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Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th June
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Deshler (USA) - Spring Creek Model Trains - Train Show
& Open House
Spring Creek Model Trains, 304 East Bryson
Avenue, Deshler, NE 68340, Nebraska, USA
Tel. - 4023 657 628
Times and admission details unknown
Stuttgart (Germany) - Eventbrite/Panini - Comic Con. Germany -
'CCON'
Messe Stuttgart, Messepiazza 1, 70629
Stuttgart, Germany
The Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/comiccon.germany/
09:00-18:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
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News
More on Hornby
Several cutting have thrown a little more
light on what's been going on at the home of Airfix/Corgi/Scalextric recently with Lyndon Davis of Hornby claiming the previous senior
management didn't understand the business and that the company had been in
chaos. Blaming the previous management for what was known throughout the toy
industry to be supply-chain problems from a Chinese supplier (who's no longer
in the frame), seems a bit harsh though?
Safety
The British
Toy & Hobbycraft Association (BTHA)
have blind purchased 200 toys from eBay,
Amazon and AliExpress (retail arm/platform of Ali Baba) and found 22% of them to have failed UK (currently still
also EU-) safety standards. Now obviously there's bias involved as they
actually represent UK retailers/manufacturers rather than the consumers they
are trying to scare with subsequent tales of 'risk of death and serious injury', however the most worrying thing
they found was a superhero dressing-up costume with illegal levels of lead?
Something to think about when looking for generic bargains on off-shore
platforms!
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Toys in the Media
Three today;
More Preiser/Noch
types; when they're not being used by artists (check this post out at Jan's) they are
being used by advertisers! And there's a second (non-toy) recurring trope in
there with the piles of small-denomination coinage, it's only piggy-banks
missing for a full-house . . . and I think there are some in the queue!
This would appear to be the old, slightly
cartoonish 'toob' figures from Safari?
Helping to sell a drug-trial and because it's for Charity and may even appeal
to some of you (not us fifty-something youngsters!); I've not obliterated the
copy. I have the catapult somewhere and a couple of the knights . . . somewhere
else!
Yeah! It's a Teddy Bear; apparently if you
smoke over them they can get kapok-cancer or something . . . plush-pulmonary
disease, even-glassier-eye? In the case of the above chap/chap'ess - it seems
to be a chronic case of fatalistic-frown syndrome? Fee Fi Fo Fum; I smell the
blood of Photoshop!
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H is for How They Come In
I think this is 11 of 12, but I'm not sure,
and the post I thought I'd done on them is still in the queue, bar another,
previous 'H is for . . . '-post, so I'll have to re-shoot it and do a
better job at some point . . . but; still appearing in The Works are Jada's
die-cast Nano Metalfigs 'Halo'
clearance, and I picked up another this week, they also have HP, HP
II and Amazing Beasts, or
whatever HP VIII is called?!
This was interesting; Charity shop in
Farnborough had five bags of 'gift aid'ed figures, three were the usual pile of
Airfix Para's, Commandos and US
Infantry (which I left), but two bags were Germans, mostly Airfix (DAK and Infantry), but a few vintage and what were 'modern'
about 15/20-years ago, so I grabbed them for the gap-fillers,
Weirdly there are no less than five
officers in the lot, yet no Airfix
'Rommel's' and while there were plenty of the Revell prone shooters (and the running guy) along with the officer,
all the poses not seen on the right were missing, so I'm guessing these bags
contain the unwanted's from an army-building exercise?
There were also a bunch of Deetail in a glass cabinet, individually
priced, but I only took the two 1990's re-issue examples as I have the
'inherited' lot of the originals Also a bit strange, the two charity shops in
Farnborough are next door to each other, and the other shop also had Deetail Germans in a glass cabinet, but
they weren’t 'gift aid' and were scruffier, so it appears that they are having
charity-shop wars, down the line there!
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