"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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
However simple they are very nice miniatures.
ReplyDeleteYes 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!
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