Staring with catering novelties which were
mostly shot in TKMaxx, but with the last lot a more conventional toy thing
photographed in Sainsbury's.
I'm loving these 'Mexican Wrestler'
bottle-openers! Marketed by Kikkerland
and presumably the result of some competition or sponsored thing (as our own Design Museum puts on or supports from
time to time), and while I could only find two designs, there may be more
and/or other colours?
I really ummned and arrrhhed on these, not
so much the submarines as the divers, but the deciding factor on leaving them
on the shelf was that they were full of liquid and might leak one day, quietly
on the shelf, or in the attic or garage, messing something else up? I suppose
you could get a plastic-surgeon (geddit!) to syringe the water out and replace
it with clear silicon!
Close-up of the little divers, who could
just as easily be spacemen or astronauts? Eight for three-quid is about 33p
each, and Kikkerland again.
It was frog plant-ties which kicked-off our
occasional visits to bendy-toys here at Small
Scale World a few years ago, well now you can get chameleons in pairs, in
at least six colours, although they don't change colour so more; 'big-eyed
geckos'! These were in Flying Tiger
(formerly Tiger) a while ago.
Found in Sainsbury's at the beginning of April;
within a month Peter Evans had sent me the one on the right with the same
green/yellow colourway! The sad thing is that Sainsbury's were selling these
internally branded in 12's, three-each of four colours, while a few years ago
they were in eights (2x4's), thus we see 'shrinkflation' come to Toytown!
One the left are the Henbrandt aliens (six to a set) in fours . . . Doh!
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