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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.

Monday, October 14, 2019

W is for What Am I Like!

On or around the 9th August, i.e. at the beginning of Rack Toy Month, I said;

"This toob was found on Sunday, I almost never go to town on Sunday's but this week I did and found an Aspro (Spanish jobber) branded toob of PVC-alike fishy fellows (actually more than half of them are mammals or crustaceans, not fish!), which will be looked at when the long-in-the-queue sea-creature round-up publishes."

By the end of the month I had indeed published the long-in-the-queue sea-creatures round-up, and was the Aspro set included? Was it heck! Better sort that out this instant - Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you the Fair Sea Life set from Aspro!

Aspro Fair Sea Life; Aspro France; Aspro Rack Toy; China Rack Toy; Flat Fish; Made in China; Octopus; Plastic Toy Sea Life; Sea Life Toys; Sea Lions; Sealife; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Crab; Toy Flatfish; Toy Octopus; Toy Seal; Toy Sealion; Toy Shark; Toy Starfish; Toy Turtle; Toy Walrus; Toy Whale; Turtle;
We looked at the packaging last time, so getting stuck into the contents, we have a reasonable selection of sea-life including mammals and invertebrates, but only two fish, and both cartilaginous ones at that!

Along with the umpteenth generation-copy of the prehistoric-Wild West-jungle-Day Day sea-weed /tree/shrub/plant-thing so favoured of HK - and now - China manufacturers!

Aspro Fair Sea Life; Aspro France; Aspro Rack Toy; China Rack Toy; Flat Fish; Made in China; Octopus; Plastic Toy Sea Life; Sea Life Toys; Sea Lions; Sealife; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Crab; Toy Flatfish; Toy Octopus; Toy Seal; Toy Sealion; Toy Shark; Toy Starfish; Toy Turtle; Toy Walrus; Toy Whale; Turtle;
These are in that family of small (averaging 40/60mm main body) generic animals of which there are lots of sets going round at the moment, with the land animals and dinosaurs I am trying to make sense of them, but when you have three sets of two-colour, flesh-plastic figurines with similar china marks it 'aint easy!

These are they too, CHINA, no other mark, pale grey/white PVC and one or two colours over-sprayed, but at least we get to call the Aspro until they turn up under other brands - which they probably will!

There's little scale, but as all these have large and small stages or versions, it's up you what scale you use them as!

Aspro Fair Sea Life; Aspro France; Aspro Rack Toy; China Rack Toy; Flat Fish; Made in China; Octopus; Plastic Toy Sea Life; Sea Life Toys; Sea Lions; Sealife; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Crab; Toy Flatfish; Toy Octopus; Toy Seal; Toy Sealion; Toy Shark; Toy Starfish; Toy Turtle; Toy Walrus; Toy Whale; Turtle;
Mammals, and one each from the three main sub-categories, from the left; seal, walrus and sea-lion, again there's no constant scale, with the walrus around HO-OO and the seal a good 1:32nd-compatable, the sea-lion rather between them both, assuming they are all fully-grown!

Aspro Fair Sea Life; Aspro France; Aspro Rack Toy; China Rack Toy; Flat Fish; Made in China; Octopus; Plastic Toy Sea Life; Sea Life Toys; Sea Lions; Sealife; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Crab; Toy Flatfish; Toy Octopus; Toy Seal; Toy Sealion; Toy Shark; Toy Starfish; Toy Turtle; Toy Walrus; Toy Whale; Turtle;
Is it trying to be a killer whale (it's not a country Mr President) or one of the many Dolphin/Porpoise species left out of all the kids' books on the subject? The shark is equally generic and hard to place in the taxonomy . . . grey? Blue? Jaws!

Nice little set, all the same!

2 comments:

Jan Ferris said...

However simple they are very nice miniatures.

Hugh Walter said...

Yes Jan! And - as we saw with Brian's volcanic Island diorama . . . they can be useful in other contexts! Although this octopus doesn't look evil enough to attack a 'plane, but the shark's a meanie I think . . . a blue-meanie!

H