It was from Brian in New York, and had all
sort of goodies in it!
He sent three bags of the Flixstars from Mattel we looked at last time he sent some! I'm going to have to
keep one mint, but don't know yet which of them will be the two to open, but I
must say I think they're fun, and from the front they all make nice figures.
I opened this one straight-away, because
the packaging is a huge thing, and I can scan the card sometime for the
archive, which will stack flat 'for posterity'! He's a bigg'un, about 80mm if
we assume they grew to human size, and from Monogram
'the new'.
Funnily-enough I found the old Playmate's 54mm'ish TMNT's while putting that Plume
Brisse (or whatever it was) Indian premium away the other day and I thought
that with the ones we've seen in the last few years and others including the Yolanda Sobre
ones we might have a round-up of turtle ninja, mutant-teenager figuress in the
spring!
This year's packaging colour-way from Dollar General/Dolgen, I would save it
for October, but thought I'd clear the decks now, as we can compare all three -
to date - next year, they being; black, orange and purple cards. Still unfair
that the Mummy's get ten poses and the Skeletons only eight!
Brian also sent three bags of some of his
finds on the secondary market; the top bag has a mix of MPC 54mm (which I know I'm short of) and Hong Kong Monogram clones, the middle bag are the Payton (? I'll check before I blog them
again) copies of the Marx hard
plastic polystyrene figures. We did look at them, but it was ages ago, so they
will prove really useful when I return to them here.
The last bag was particularly kind of Brian
as we've already had the images - indeed it leaves me with a quandary as I'd
like to shoot them again (now they're here!), but with some more CMV shots (for that is what they are) from
Chris Smith added to the mix, they were/are fully covered on the khaki infantry
page, so I'll have to be patient, or get a grip on an A-Z entry!
A return to Mattel with these two 65/70-mil'ish figures, a nice Batman and The Rock - who's pretty-much escaped me but I know of him from my
Brother's enthusiastic gabbling on the Fast
& Furious franchise!
I shot the card backs to illustrate a point
previously highlighted - the mass of consumer information you find on these
things, these days - they must be as 'safe' as a lungful of mountain-air!
Mr. B also sent three more of these large
stretchy 100mm combat types from Greenbrier/DTSC
for Imperial with a new colour and a
new pose - the bazooka firer. Thanks as always to Brian and wishing him and the
rest of you a Happy Christmas . . . I know - but it's not far off; any-day-soon
and it'll be in the past already!
2 comments:
Hugh, check the type under the bases in the bag of Crescent clones
I have! That's the quandary . . if I do them again over there (KI Page) it will be overkill, but I want to do them now that they are here! However - with Chris's totem and a few other things, and not much known history I may get the A-Z entry done over the break!
Cheers
H
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