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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.

Sunday, October 13, 2019

S is for Shelfies - USA

As well as the Ja-Ru shots Brian sent which we looked at yesterday, he's send lots of other Shelfies, some of which are in other articles in the queue, some of which are still in the 'long queue' probably destined for a straight to A-Z entry (when I get on top of them), but here are three which can go on the blog forthwith!

4-Pack; Bagged Firefighter Toys; Bagged Rack Toy; Battle of the Bible; Bible Toys; Blister Pack Toy Figures; Blister Pack Wild West; Build-A-Story; Cowboys & Indians; David and Goliath; Fire and Rescue; Hunson; JPW International; OKK Trading; Plastic Warrior Issue 159; Shelfies - USA; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Supreme; Supreme Cowboys; Supreme Indians; Supreme Wild West; Tales of Glory; US Toy; US Toy Firefighters; Wild Willy's Gun Shop;
As a follow-up to another Bible Toys set he sent which we saw a while ago (Noah I think or was it JC himself), we have David and Goliath with other sets illustrated on the blister's backing card.

They all look a little Euro-Caucasian for Arabs, an excuse you could justify explain in the past when the whole of Western civilization was a war-loving, patriarchal, colonising, Pope-driven, racist, Christian cult, but these days they really should know better!

4-Pack; Bagged Firefighter Toys; Bagged Rack Toy; Battle of the Bible; Bible Toys; Blister Pack Toy Figures; Blister Pack Wild West; Build-A-Story; Cowboys & Indians; David and Goliath; Fire and Rescue; Hunson; JPW International; OKK Trading; Plastic Warrior Issue 159; Shelfies - USA; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Supreme; Supreme Cowboys; Supreme Indians; Supreme Wild West; Tales of Glory; US Toy; US Toy Firefighters; Wild Willy's Gun Shop;
We've seen these before, both sides of the pond, under about five different brandings. Peter Evans sent one to the blog which was more of a candy-premium? Here under Hunson's moniker and four figures to a card, they are second-generation copies of the old Supreme sculpts - which also got several brand-outings!

The bowman (who also came with the candy set) is arguably the poorest pose in an otherwise reasonable group.

Graphics are odd - even by rack-toy standards, with the figures suspended over a lava-lake held-in by a glowing-red 'Berlin' wall??? Wild Willy's Gun Shop is clearly some portal to Hades, or the ammo-store just took-off with a bang!

4-Pack; Bagged Firefighter Toys; Bagged Rack Toy; Battle of the Bible; Bible Toys; Blister Pack Toy Figures; Blister Pack Wild West; Build-A-Story; Cowboys & Indians; David and Goliath; Fire and Rescue; Hunson; JPW International; OKK Trading; Plastic Warrior Issue 159; Shelfies - USA; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Supreme; Supreme Cowboys; Supreme Indians; Supreme Wild West; Tales of Glory; US Toy; US Toy Firefighters; Wild Willy's Gun Shop;
These look very familiar, are they the sets we saw in Plastic Warrior magazine a few years ago (issue 159 - back issues avaiable) as US Toy from Les White? I think they are, you also see them from time to time on evilBay in sets of 12.

Now, they are six-pose sets, but there are only five in the bag, so you would have to buy at least two sets (four in this case as the firefighters come in red or tan), but as JPW they are likely to be so much cheaper than as US Toy or feebleBay's £$6-something+postage, that it looks a good deal! The other set which comes in two colours (not in the PW article) are the soldiers who come in tan or green.

Many thanks to Mr. Berke - all useful stuff, especially if you are over the pond.

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