POS (point of sale) novelties included
wind-up robots (becoming another perennial favourite here at Small Scale World)
in red and black (left hand bin) although there were several color-way/design
combinations on the two base-plastic colours, for a four or six 'set-count';
two or three black and the same - red?
The right hand bin is larger scale -
several times life-size - insects, which may be of interest to insect
collectors, but they may already have found them, January was a while ago now!
Smaller blister sets and larger, bagged
sets with header-cards containing all the common tropes; insects, reptiles,
farm & zoo animals and dinosaurs, there's also a single - Halloween-ready -
bat (sans blister), and a slight departure on the normal fare; a set of flying
birds, or birds in flight!
Some close-ups; I didn't think to get the
birds properly and the bat was a balancing afterthought crop! The birrds are a
departure and you can see the mallard clearly, I think/suspect the others may
include an eagle, vulture and owl? But the orange one may be another duck-like
bird and you'd half-expect a sea-gull?
I think a few of the dinosaurs have come-in
over time, in mixed lots, and while these are technically generics, with the
animal collectors often having the China-maker's name, it's nice to be able to
round a few up next time I sort the 'unsorted' and scribble an HGL moniker on
their bag!
Larger scale farm and zoo sets include
counter dispensers for the biggest and tubs for medium-sized animals (54/60mm
compatible stuff in the main), while the little zipper-satchels with their
animal-pining, vac-formed trays bear a striking resemblance to the small-scale
horse sets from Brayer!
When the biggest animals come-in they tend
to go back to charity, but I always photograph them for the archive, and shots
like this might help ascribe them all one day. The bigger insects we saw at the
top also have a counter-top dispenser, huge snakes were a regular in the
toy-box when we were kids, often an 'attendance prize' when leaving someone
else's birthday party - and a pack of cetaceans, which brings us to . . .
. . . the oceans! Sharks! It's all sharks
for 2019 . . . I think there's a dolphin in there somewhere, but basically
sharks are it! They all seem to be the same line but in a variety of packaging
options. Then there's the cartoon one with a pink-monkeys foot in its mouth!
Pan-out and it's still 'all sharks' on the
left, while on the right we get down to the serious animal for the serious
young animal collector to seriously collect - My mother volunteered for many
years at the Bernardo's charity shop in town and reports that there were
several small boys who would come round buying the dinosaurs and nothing but.
And they knew all their proper names, no "kerthunkersaurus" from them!
I think we've seen most of them before, but
to note are the larger squidgy ones and the small rack-toy bag of older
1970/80's sculpts still going strong.
Again, these were all in last year's shots
I think and I know I highlighted the Magasaurs
branding across the lines/range then.
The smaller bag and the tubs have the older
sculpting while the larer bag looks to have all new sculpts with the more
on-trend decoration taken from the more colourful lizards and birds alive
today, rather than the dowdy twin-tone or monochrome, often muddy decoration of
the past.
Note: HGL
has totally replaced H. Grossman formally (corporate usage),
but Megasaurs.com has not replaced Ozbozz, just sits alongside it!
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