T is for Toy Exhibition

I tried to collage these down a bit, but - apart from the lead two 'portrait' format long-shots, nothing was very amenable to being put together and blurb was going to be either thin on the ground or total trope, so I'm just flinging them up here to finalise the Local Day [for local people!], in the hope that something triggers at least one of your nostalgia buttons!

This was (may still be?) in Basingrad Library a while ago (end of April), or the 'discovery centre' as it's now called in the slightly highfalutin fashion favoured of local authorities keen to knuckle-under the government cuts of a same-colour party! Basingrad have cut 12 out of 13 family centres and now wonder why the murder/suicide/domestic violence/drug & alcohol problem rates are going up?!

I don't think there was a major reason behind it either just a nice display in a cabinet going spare? Mostly larger toys with a wallpaper of associated ephemera, it's a memory-tickler and that's for sure!

Schtroumpfs, MLP's, a bear that needs to be looked after and a Superman police car . . . why was there no super-signal? You know . . . you've got a bat-signal, why no super-signal? Boom-Boom ha-ha-ha! He lived down the road you know, Frimley, used to drive past quite often, never saw him, but then foxes are nocturnal?

There was an Action-man sized Worzel Gummidge! Why did nobody tell me? I could have found him a DAK uniform and given him something useful to do in the sanger under the cherry tree! Changeable heads too, he's a swoppet!

Thomas and Muffin, I managed to miss the bulk of both and consequently neither excites me, although I wonder how the rip-off (or apparently rip-off) Chuggington ever gained popularity except through the shallow, fickle nature of the modern consumerist pink-monkey parents?

Look-out! There's a Clanger and a Womble, arm-in-arm, do you suppose they are talking nasal architecture and plagiarism? And . . . are those blue things Doozers?

Tom! But none-too-cuddly with those plastic claws!

Hold-on, what's that . . .

. . . yeap! Another Pink Panther bendy for me to look-out for - heavier appendages!

As you may have gathered I'm not a great Disney fan, but I like the look of that Kojak car!

Same again with different lighting! The lighting was rather against me on this one!