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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Thursday, October 31, 2019

MPC is for Many Pestilent Creatures!

Bit of a box-ticker, but - like the Cherilea Chinese the other day - a nice set, while also perfect for Halloween!

MPC's 60mm horror figure set, I think I have all of them, and seem to remember reading that some of these are 'late' colours and some 'early', which - as they all came together from serious collectors - must make mine an intermediate sample!

Count Dracula; Death; Dr Frankenstein's Monster; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Playset; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Horror Play Set; Living Dead; Lurch; MPC Horror Set; MPC USA; Multiple Products Corp.; Multiple Toys; Mummy; Night-stalker; Plastic Skeletons; Psycho; Ripper; Serial-killer; Skeleton; Skeleton Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Grim Reaper; Vampire; Werewolf; Witch; Wolf-Man; Zombie;
The set references various tropes of popular culture as applied to horror, gothic sensibilities or the occult and from top left to bottom-right in either image are;

Count Dracula/Vampire type
Dr Frankenstein's Monster/Lurch type
Wolf-Man/Werewolf (with bat's ears?)
Mummy/Zombie
Death/The Grim Reaper
Living Dead/Skeleton (with pet bat)
Psycho/Night-stalker/Ripper/Serial-killer type (the one I don't like!)
Witch (with drunken pet bat!)

Count Dracula; Death; Dr Frankenstein's Monster; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Playset; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Horror Play Set; Living Dead; Lurch; MPC Horror Set; MPC USA; Multiple Products Corp.; Multiple Toys; Mummy; Night-stalker; Plastic Skeletons; Psycho; Ripper; Serial-killer; Skeleton; Skeleton Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Grim Reaper; Vampire; Werewolf; Witch; Wolf-Man; Zombie;
Pretty standard MPC base marks and hole, really just here to make the post!

Count Dracula; Death; Dr Frankenstein's Monster; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Novelty Toy; Halloween Playset; Halloween Toy Figures; Halloween Toys; Horror Play Set; Living Dead; Lurch; MPC Horror Set; MPC USA; Multiple Products Corp.; Multiple Toys; Mummy; Night-stalker; Plastic Skeletons; Psycho; Ripper; Serial-killer; Skeleton; Skeleton Novelties; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Grim Reaper; Vampire; Werewolf; Witch; Wolf-Man; Zombie;
Now this is nice; obviously around 120mm, and made in a sort of . . . well . . . foamed polystyrene? But not expanded, soft packaging type stuff, it's more like the recycled mixed polymers you get turned into beams for residential-street name-plates or park bench struts? Anyway - it's tough and hard wearing, a bit cartoony but really a nice sculpt of a Count Dracula type vampire about to pounce.

I just can't remember where it came from; I think it was a purchase, but it may have come from someone, so apologies if I'm not crediting you? And no markings of any kind, so a branding/origin still sought for this fine chap.
 
He's the Charbens 4-and-1/2-inch range, they did several and a Batman & Robin

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