Meanwhile . . . we have a new prime
minister, nothing prime about him . . . actually, that's unfair; he's a prime
clown! His cabinet seems to consist of people who have either been sacked in
the past or forced to resign, people who have lied (including him) people who
have breached protocol (including him), ex-leaders, failed leaders,
ex-leadership bidders, failed leadership bidders and people who in any other
age would have remained - slightly embarrassing to their own side - back-benchers,
including him . . . oh, and Ester McVay, a woman who was unelected by her
constituents, a lesson in democracy and 'the will of the people' totally
ignored by the Tory Party!
How is this supposed to increase trust in
parliament or parliamentarians? How is it designed to reduce division or
increase unity? Never mind, with any luck the Iranians or Putin . . . or Trump
will doubtless take our minds off the depressing truth of it all, any minute
now!
In the meantime, there's toys to be sought
and bought . . . if you can find the energy to leave the house in a car
microwave-oven!
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 27th July 2019
Brentwood - J&J Fairs (John
& Julie Webb)
International hall, Brentwood Centre,
Doddinghurst Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM15 9NN
Web. - www.j-jwebbtoyfairs.com
eMail - jandjfairs@virginmedia.com
Tel. - 01522 880 383 (J & J Webb)
10:00 -14:30hrs (approximately)
Admission £3, seniors £2.50p, 1st child £2
Horsted
Keynes
- Joe Lock Fairs - Bluebell Railway Toy Fair
Horsted Keynes Station, Station Approach,
Horsted Keynes , Haywards Heath, East Sussex, RH17 7BB
Mob. - 07866 641 215
10:00-16:00hrs
Admission included A) with a train ticket
or B) production of Bluebell Line membership card or C) by purchasing a
platform ticket (remember them) if you don't want a trip down the line!
Nottingham - Townsend Toy & Train Fairs (Malcolm
Townsend) - Nottingham Toy Fair
Bluecoat Academy, Nottingham, NG8 5GY
Web. - www.tttf.co.uk
Mob. - 07951 072 790
10:00-14:00hrs
Admission unknown, accompanied under-16's
free
Light refreshments
Free Parking
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Sunday 28th July 2019
Minehead - Chris Dyer Fairs
Minehead Eye, Mart Road, Minehead, TA24 5BJ
Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10.30-15.00hrs
Admission £2
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
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Tuesday 30th July 2019
Garstang - Janet Pearson -
Garstang Evening Fair
Kirkland & Catterall Memorial Hall, PR3
0HR
Web-presence unknown
01282 439 009
18:00-Finnish
Admission fee unknown
Tonbridge - SRP Toyfairs (evening fair)
Angel Lane,
Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1SF
Web. - http://srptoyfairs1.co.uk/
eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Tel. - 07739
998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
18:00-20:00hrs
Admission
£1.50p, children Free
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Auctions
Tuesday 30th July 2019
Newbury
- Special
Auction Services (SAS)
81 Greenham Business Park, Newbury, West
Berkshire, RG19 6HW
eMail - mail@specialauctionservices.com
Tel. - 01635 580595
Fax. - 0871 714 6905
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel. - 01642 750 616
TV and Movie
memorabilia sale
"Introducing…..Mike and Sulley, Monstropolis’s top
scarers!
These life size models have set up in the corner of
Vectis’ Auction rooms in Thornaby and are ready to give anyone who ventures in
a fright, however they definitely live up to their characters and are much
friendlier in person; we hope they fulfil their destiny and supply Monstropolis
with energy from providing joy and laughter from their new owners.
The pair are also joined by two life size Jack
Skellington’s from “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, they are being offered at
Vectis by the same vendor, who has reluctantly placed the lovable characters up
for auction due to moving house and no longer having the room to keep them, and
they have unfortunately been relegated to the garage – pictured, he tells the
tale of how they came to be in his possession…."
"Sulley was purchased over 10 years ago ....I hired a van
and along with my youngest daughter we drove to London, across the Dartford
bridge to collect him from a garage overnight after buying him on eBay.....we
brought him home to Forest Hall and he ended up in my collection - he has been
the centrepiece of my collection for many years, moving with us and creating a
stir wherever he has been.....sadly, the bungalow is just not big enough for
the both of us......but he raised a smile even from our garage....Mikey came a
year or so after Sulley and the pair were reunited!!...they’ve been together
ever since.......Jack Skellington came from New York and travelled one
Christmas, initially as hand luggage and then in the hold....he was a definite
hit from the start, with many people wanting their photographs with him in the
airport.... my kids were very excited about this....fellow passengers on the
plane cheered when he arrived safely back in Newcastle airport.......again he
needs to be displayed and I sadly don’t have the space..."
For further information on these Lots
please don’t hesitate to contact Vectis,
the vendor is happy to answer any further questions.
The vendor's collection also includes the
vintage Raleigh Chopper bikes seen in
some [previous Vectis announcement] of the photographs.
Thanks to Louise at Vectis for the promo-images.
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Other Events
Now - Sunday 1st September 2019
Dartmouth - English Heritage -
History at Dartmouth
Dartmouth castle, Dartmouth, Devon
Pirates, naval history, dressing-up,
hands-on stuff . . .
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Friday-Saturday-Sunday 26th-28th July
2019
London (Olympia) - London Film &
Comic Convention
Exhibitions, trade stalls, show exclusives,
over 100 guest stars booked.
Welland - WSR - Welland Steam
& Country Fair
Various locations & Woodside Farm
Welland, Worcestershire
Web. - wellandsteamrally.com
Steam Fairground, Train Rides, Vintage
Tractors, Engines, Model Village . . .
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Saturday 27th July - Sat 31st August
2019
Wantage - MC Events - Lego Expo
2019
Vale & Downland Museum, Church Street,
Wantage, Oxfordshire,
Web. - valeanddownlandmuseum.org.uk
I'm getting bored with these now . . it IS
a kid's toy and it WAS stolen from someone else! But great . . . for
kids! I've also seen posters for the Lego
event at Woburn Safari Park,
previously mentioned here, it's still running - 'till the 1st of September.
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Saturday 27th-Sunday 28th July 2019
Avebury - National Trust - Teddy
Bear's picnic
Avebury Manor & Garden, Avebury,
Wiltshire
Web. 1 - https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk (organiser)
Web. 2 - https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/events/514f3863-ae6c-402c-aa83-f5849ebbe94c/pages/details
(event page)
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Sunday 28th july 2019
Lothian,
Scotland - National
Museums Scotland - Scotland's National Airshow
National Museum of Flight, East Fortune
Airfield, East Lothian, Scotland
Web. - nms.ac.uk
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Overseas Events
Friday 26th - Tuesday 30th July 2019
Hong
Kong - Tung
Tak Enterprise Limited - Ani-Com & Games HK (ACGHK)
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition
centre
Download - English Language .pdf
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Sunday 28th July 2019
Kelowna (Canada) - Fun Promotions - Kelowna Collectibles
Show
Sandman Hotel & Suites Kelowna, 2130
Harvey Avenue, Kelowna V1Y 6G8, British Columbia, Canada
11:00-16:00hrs
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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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H is for How They Come In
An interesting week, I picked-up what I thought
was an 11th Nano-Metal figure from
the Halo set in The Works cleared from Jada,
only to find that while it may be my 11th (of twelve?), I'd got one in the last
few weeks, so . . . now I have two 'Spartan
Vale's!
Something else came in this week but
looking round the room I can't put my finger on it, so I must have sorted it
away already, I do that sometimes, almost subconsciously!
Yesterday I picked up two bags, one for 50p
- mostly duplicates (left hand image) and another for a £1 with mostly
zomling/moshling/shopkin crap (right hand image), which I'll filter into the
various posts on them which will - hopefully - all post on one day near
christmas, when the diehards are more likely to forgive such indulgence!
I also picked up another of those Russimco-Ecotronic reto-games; The
Amazing Magical Robot's, which [contents and packaging] all went the same
way as the previous one, except for the robot which is in the image above. I'm
going to leave him as-he-is and remove the pointing-wire from the previous
(de-plinthed) one, with a bit of heat - and some pliers.
I literally found this in the street; it
was damaged at both ends with torn tips to trunk and tail, and was leaking
little beads from a tear in its throat, so I thought I'd investigate it for
your amusement and our greater knowledge; as these are getting quite common
now.
Consumer info' consisted of two lines
All New Material Rubber
Filling EPS Beads China
Turns-out that while they feel rather vile,
even slightly sexual in a lady's hand-bag-sized, battery-operated, pleaser sort
of way and rather cold or slimy, they are in fact not filled with a bead-gel,
but just loose expanded-polystyrene (the EPS)
beads, like their larger parcel packing brethren, but about 0.5mil. It'll all
end up in landfill or the oceans where it will still be causing problems long
after we've been pushed-off by mother-nature to the fields of the apocalypse and
who can blame her!
The gel-feeling (which I'd associated with
bead-gel via those equally weird/slightly-sexual continuous loop things which
are transparent and clearly filled with a bead/gel soup!) coming just from the
soft beads rubbing against each other and the silicon vinyl-like 'all new material rubber'!
The animal is filled from quite a large
hole and then sealed with a shot of the same stuff, leaving a large scar under
the head which was part-hidden by the over decoration and I've seen these
things in The Works, Wilkinsons/Wilco, Poundland and [Flying] Tiger. You get wild animals, over-sized
lizards, snakes and amphibians, Dinosaurs etc . . .
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Natural Small Scale World
Finally managed to shoot a White Admiral (,
I'd seen one two years ago, been teased by several earlier in the year (early
June I think?), but got this on my accidental walk from Odiahm to Fleet, don't
ask; but I think it involves a world-famous pianist and his very kind friends!
Looking a lot like a female Purple Emperor,
but with fuller or more 'rounded' wings, I think they are the same 'group'
anyway?
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Couple of Other Bits
Shelfied, but I won't be giving it
house-room! I thought Rowan Atkinson was very funny in Not The 9-O'clock News and superb in Blackadder, while the early Mr
Bean sketches were fun, but it/he's more of a one-joke visual gag, and - in
my opinion (which isn't everyone's!) -
it's been laboured to the Nth degree. From our bendy-friends at NJCroce via TKMaxx.
No doubt about who made this Spanish
tourist-trinket donkey! The mark for Pech
Hermanos (Peach Brothers) is 'branded' onto the saddle! Came in a while
back, can't remember when . . . Sandown or a charity shop's mixed-bag? It's lost
its cart!
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Link
Who knew he was a collector? "Williams created an alternative reality, spending hours on end
commanding his collection of several thousand toy soldiers. “I had to
use all these voices and sound effects with my standing army,” he said
to PEOPLE in 1978". I wonder if he ever read SSW?
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