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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.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Q is for Quicker Than I Thought!

Glanced at one of these the other day and I said it was bigger than the others but would make for a good forced-perspective shot when I dug the rest out . . . well; I dug the rest out and did some forced-perspective shots!

Galoob Micro Machines; Galoob Micro-Machines; Galoob Micromachines; Galoob Star Wars; Hasbro Micro Machines; Hasbro Micro-Machines; Hasbro Micromachines; Hasbro Star Wars; Hot Wheels Spaceships; Hot Wheels Speeder Bike; Imperial Speeder Bike; Land Speeder; Landspeeder; Leia Organa; Leia Skywalker; Luke Skywalker; Mattel Hot Wheels Spaceships; Mattel Star Wars; Princess Leia; Rey's Speeder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Snow Speeder; Speeder; Speeder Bike; Star Wars; Star Wars Land Speeder; Star Wars Landspeeder; Star Wars Speeder Bike;
The previously mentioned, likely line-up; In front is the most recent from Mattel's line of Hot Wheels 'Starships', it's a much more detailed machine than the others, but - as I thought - looks better with the others behind it. The second machine is the Galoob Action Fleet beast, which I believe only came with Luke or Leia figures, but also takes the civilians (two shots down) and here, the giant lizard rider from Tatooine, who with his giant-lizard prod, looks regal enough to lead the charge!

Behind them are two paint versions of the Galoob MicroMachines speeder with the slightly longer, but slimmer Hasbro MicroMachine from a few years ago (in-line - movie VII?). There's a new film out any day now isn't there? Let's hope there's something for us, there's been precious little from the out-of-line and back-story movies - none of which I've seen, it's all become a bit of a whore to Mammon!

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This is a little simpler, but I have more of them! From the front Action Fleet Luke, Action Fleet Leia, and four MicroMachine rebels with the Hasbro Luke among them. Clothing colour variation (the rebels are supposed to be Leia I think) leads to a nice squad!

The climbing machine comes courtesy of a heat-bent stand, although in the movie they stay parallel with the ground even when climbing or dropping?

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The old back-path weaving it's way through the brackish salt-swamps between Moss Eisley and Jabba's palace is busy with pirates, smuggles and hoodlums going about their nefarious tasks for the Hutt's!

From the front; Galoob Action Fleet speeders with un-named (?) bit-part hoodlums, Ray's Jakku speeder (Mattel), two Galoob MicroMachine civilian speeders from Tatooine and at the back, from the left Hasbro MicroMachine Ray's speeder, Hasbro MicroMachine Jakku Landspeeder (looks like a beach-bum, hippy speeder!) and a diminutive civi' (from one of the Galoob MicroMachine three-vehicle sets?) who's even smaller than the other two.

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Snowspeeders; Mattel at the front, Hasbro 'Platinum Edition' die-cast in the middle and the Hasbro MicroMachine at the back, make a nice machine-gun platoon from long, long ago and far, far away!

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Last time we looked at all three (I'd forgotten I'd done that or I wouldn't have sweated over the previous image!) I shot them from above without the stands, this time I played with Picasa to remove them, number them . . . and added some banana-bullets!

Galoob Micro Machines; Galoob Micro-Machines; Galoob Micromachines; Galoob Star Wars; Hasbro Micro Machines; Hasbro Micro-Machines; Hasbro Micromachines; Hasbro Star Wars; Hot Wheels Spaceships; Hot Wheels Speeder Bike; Imperial Speeder Bike; Land Speeder; Landspeeder; Leia Organa; Leia Skywalker; Luke Skywalker; Mattel Hot Wheels Spaceships; Mattel Star Wars; Princess Leia; Rey's Speeder; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Snow Speeder; Speeder; Speeder Bike; Star Wars; Star Wars Land Speeder; Star Wars Landspeeder; Star Wars Speeder Bike;
Full size-comparison;

GAF     -   Galoob Action Fleet
GMM   -   Galoob MicroMachines
HMM   -   Hasbro MicroMachines
HPE     -   Hasbro Platinum Edition
MHW   -   Mattel Hot Wheels

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