W is for Wimblebum!

I don't know why we called it Wimblebum, I guess it was all part of the small boys' mentality of 'urrh, girls' and those frilly-knickers they wore so obviously back in the 70's to hide their modesty, like pink meringue-nappies? Now they display the contours of their labia and we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed - which is odd, because Linford Christie* got tons of sniggery-flack from the tabloids, for his 'lunchbox'?

In cake decoration-land they are still back in the '70's so I won't have to activate the adult-content button just yet! On the left in each shot are Gemodels/Culpitt's (larger example above and smaller pair below) older figure, on the right the current replacements; findable under different brands including PME Knightsbridge and Wilton.

Size is approximately: 50mm; Gem and 70mm; 'Wilton's', who are really 65mm due to the deep bases and accurately 90/100mm-doll-scale compatible, being obviously children!

The Gem's en masse; I suspect the larger sculpting (four left-hand girls and first two figures to the left of the boys) is actually the latter, it tends to two-colours and/or an unpainted base while the smaller figures tend to a three colour paint-job, but it's not a hard-and-fast rule, with some three colour larger figures and some two colour smaller figures. And indeed it may be not two generations, but rather a four-cavity tool?

Like the cricketers - we've looked at here before - there is a set of slightly different copies in a soft PVC; unmarked but probably from Hong Kong for Culpitt, and sharing the bright spring/apple green bases of those Test-Match players.

The lower-shot compares large, small and PVC bases, in that order from the left.

Base marking for the two modern, juvenile types seen in the first image, no real clues to anything here!

The 'Kat' is probably, but not necessarily; 'catalogue number', it could be a manufacturer or client code, the 817 will be a stock code, the girl is suffixed 'A' and (cavity?) 1, the boy gets a 2, but no suffix and they are a hard polystyrene, to Gem's mostly unmarked PE's.

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* Linford Cicero Christie OBE is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. [Wikipedia]

And . . . YES! IT's a week late!