Remember that weird Superman with foam wings, who came-in in a mixed lot, got
photographed and went back to charity? Well, the mystery seem to be solved;
modern-to-current, made by an i-Star
Entertainment and being fired by means of an older type pull-cord mechanism
and a more techie' trigger which seems to momentarily store the kinetic energy.
And - apart from missing the trigger and pull cord, mine was probably/vaguely
complete?
Chad
Valley are very much a trading brand now, having been
resurrected and gone bust, bough by Woolworth's
and gone bust, bought by Argos,
bought by or sheared with Sainsbury's
. . . and cleared through TKMaxx,
while both organs are themselves still trading!
The figures (54/60mm) look familiar and I
feel I've seen them before somewhere, but then they would be bought-in,
as a trading brand Chad Valley does
no original manufacturing itself anymore. Indeed; I think the building has the
same sticker as the Ja-Ru (?) set
Brian shelfied a year or two ago? But the figures are from somewhere else, the helicopter
a common rack-toy trope, the traffic-cone from elsewhere?
Sub-scale shuttle and intermediate scale
figures (around the 30/35mm mark IIRC) from Johntoy
of the Netherlands, but I was drawn to the satellites which would go well with
my Airfix HO-OO astronauts, but it wasn't particularly cheap so I left it one
the shelf!
Diving out of TKMaxx for a moment I shot these dolls house accessories in Flying Tiger a while ago, notable for
the fact that as polymers continue to be implicated in mass pollution,
environmental damage, infertility, biological-androgyny and extinction, wood
and metal will regain their lost roles in the toy industry . . . as they will
in the kitchen, garden and garage/shed!
Back to the Max' and every boy's Christmas fantasy was a big box with everything
in it, and this isn't far off! You even get a small forest of poplar trees! Shit image
means I can't read the full logo but it's looks like Play Fund, Play Land or Play Pound (as in 'Dog Pound')? This is
likely a phantom-branded packaging - several of the vehicles are recognisable
from the multi-brand post a couple of Rack-Toy Month's ago.
The kneeling police sniper is an old (and
as we've seen here at SSW in the past) much copied Ja-Ru sculpt, so I assume
the others will be two, all-six drawn from a larger 'menu' of figures, produced
by a contract manufacturer somewhere.
Just because it's figural . . . and may
turn-up in a mixed lot! It says 'Brick' so may be Duplo-sized/compatible?
Seen at the London Toy fair in
January '18, seen them in TKMaxx before, Interplay's Fairy Garden the fairy is
another one likely to turn-up in mixed lots and may be of use to fantasy
collectors, if only to have the game-master declare her 'captured by Orcs' and
demand her rescue as a game-wining aim!
Phidal - smaller toy/book confection, and aimed at much younger readers
than the full-size My Busy Books, can
use non-licensed stuff without hitting sales, not that they aren't loosely
based on My Little Pony, but them
isn't MLP only a further commercialisation
of the pink, yellow and blue animals transfer-printed on our cots and play-pens
by Pedigree Triang Mettoy fifty years
ago?
We saw a couple here in a mixed lot a while
back, both went back to charity the next day, Peterkin are behind this juvenilia.
Two brand-marks here, Country Life and My Lovely
Horse, both from Johnjoy out of
Holland (a place called Waddinxveen), not my thing, but for farm collectors,
horse collectors or animal collectors, they may have appeal, clearly going after
the Breyer market, which both Schleich and Papo are also chasing these days.
If Tomy
are to do anything useful with that Britains
Farm property of theirs, they might do well to dump the Britains tools, double (or halve?) the
scale and go after a slice of this bandwagon's pie!
That's yer'bunch of mixed shelfies; with
one exception, all recently or currently from TKMaxx.
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