Although when she talks of 'free people' I
guess she's not including the Uighur, Rohinga, Karan, Tamils, Palestinians,
Democratic Syrians, Democratic Egyptians, Brazilian natives . . . the natives
of Nicaragua, Peru, Columbia, Mexico . . . Libyan slaves, ethnic Ukrainians in
the Donbas or Crimea, trafficked nail-bar girls in your local high street, the
car-wash guys at the edge of town, the Catalan's, the Catholics in Ulster or -
even - the Scottish . . . among others?
We leave the world's largest trading block,
as we fall out with America on several issues, as China's Belt & Road
snakes into Africa and through the 'stans to Eastern Europe, as Russia is
handed the Middle East by Trump and as Canada, Australia and New Zealand make
it clear they will be negotiating for deals more favorable to themselves than
those they had with us - as part of the EU?
I see th't that Farage (rhymes with c**t!) chap
was being predictably awful again this week, while Trump, days after the
commemorations of the Holocaust, unveiled a map which seems to confine the
Palestinians to ghettos (or concentration 'areas'), linked by barbed-wire
corridors! As we also commemorate (and indeed celebrate) the Warsaw Uprising, will we be celebrating
the next - and inevitable - Intifada?
Still with any luck this Chinese corona-virus
'snake' flu may give us all a bit of Lebensraum, if we survive it! And
remember; the Spanish-flu epidemic a century ago, had actually come-round once
already; in 1917, but it was the return-performance in the winter of 1918/19
which did the damage.
On that happy note . . . it's off to look
for old toys while our lungs are still working!
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 1st February 2020
Bexhill-on-Sea - SRP Toy Fairs
St. Barnabas Parish Church, Cantelupe Road,
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1JG
Web. - http://srptoyfairs1.co.uk/
eMail - srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Mob. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Didcot
- Retro
Ronnie - Didcot & Oxen Toy & Train Fair
Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot,
Oxfordshire, OX11 7JN
Web - www.retroronnie.com
Mob. I - 07708 385 061
Mob. II - 07900 266 427
Hours unknown
Admission unknown
Exeter - Ray Heard Train & Toy
Fairs
Matford Centre, Matford Park Road, Exeter,
EX2 8FD
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01823 480 097
10:00 -15:30hrs
Admission £2.00
Free parking, refreshments
Gateshead - Jim Corr Fairs - Toy,
Train & Sci-Fi Fair
Gateshead International Stadium, Neilson
Road, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE10 0EF
eMail - jim_corr73@hotmail.co.uk
Mob. - 07504 035 955
10:00 - 15:00hrs
Admission £3, children/senior citizens £2,
'Early Bird' £5
Merthyr
Tydfil - Chris Dyer Fairs
Merthyr Leisure Centre, Methyr Leisure
Village, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, (it's not a marine mammal Mr. President) CF48
1UT
Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01643
702 757
Mob. - 07966
694 579
Admission £2
10:30-15:00hrs
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Sunday 2nd February 2020
Bolton - Barry Potter / BP Fairs - 'Macron'
The Premier
Suite, Macron Stadium, Bolton, Lancashire, BL6 6SF
Web. - www.bpfairs.com
Tel. - 01604
846 688
Mob. - 07966
527 177
Fax. - 01604
771 070
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission £4.00,
early-bird £8, (from 08:00hrs), seniors £3.50, children £1
Free parking
Falkirk, Scotland - McLaren Models
Tel. - 01324
624 102
Kempton
Park - RM
Toys Ltd. - Kempton Park Toy Fair
Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road East,
Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, TW16 5AQ
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 02392 381 529
Mob. - 07957 823 507 (Russell Martin)
10:00 - 15:00hrs
Admission - £4.00, seniors £3.50p, children
£1.00, early bird (from 08:30hrs) £10.00
Malvern - Bulldog Fairs
The Seven Hall, Three Counties Showground,
Worcestershire, WR13 6NW
Web. - www.bulldogfairs.com
eMail - bulldogfairs@aol.com
Tel. - 01373 452 857
Mob. - 07917 125 641
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Adults £4, under 16's free if accompanied,
early-bird (from 08:30hrs) £10.
Worthing - SRP Toyfairs
Charmandean Centre, Forest Road, Worthing,
West Sussex, BN14 9HS
Web. - http://srptoyfairs1.co.uk/
eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
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Auctions
I don't think there are any this week,
certainly I've not found any, nor been told of one?
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Other Events
Saturday 1st February 2020
Cheltenham - Nightshift Films - True
Believers Comic Festival ('Troobs')
Jury’s Inn, Gloucester
Rd, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 0TS (venue)
13 Westland Road, Hardwicke, Gloucester,
Gloucestershire, GL2 4QH (promoter)
Web. - http://oktruebelievers.com/
Tel. - 0161 774 2984
(venue)
10:30-17:00hrs
Leeds - Retro Games Fair
Marriott Hotel, 4 Trevelyan Square, Leeds,
LS1 6ET
Web. - https://retrogamesfair.com/
10:00-16:00hrs
Admission £2.00 adults, £0.50p under 16's,
under 6-y/o free
Southport - MM Fairs - Dolls House
& Miniature Fair
Southport Theatre and Convention Centre
(formerly The Floral Hall), The Promenade, Southport, Merseyside, PR9 0DZ
10:30-15:.00hrs
Admission £3.00 adults, £2.50 for
concessions, £1.00 for children (7-y/o or over) under seven free
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Reminder
Still running until Sunday 23rd February
2020
Cardiff - St. David's Shopping Centre
- Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N.
St. David's Shopping Centre, Wales
Web. - www.avengersstation.co.uk
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Overseas Events
Saturday 1st February 2020
Jackson (USA) - L & J Promotions (Mid-Michigan Supershows) - Jackson Toy
Show
Jackson Fairgrounds (Keeley Park), 200 West
Ganson Street, Jackson, MI 49202, Michigan, USA
Tel. - ++ 5 175 248 899
9am to 3pm
09:00-15:00hrs
Admission $3.00 per person kids under 10-y/o
free (with adult)
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If you are
an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model,
collectable, military, historical or popular-/youth-culture type
sale/exhibition/event listed here - FOR FREE - or
linked to; please eMail me -
maverickatlarge[at]hotmail[dot]com
- stating
the date/s of the event, address of event, contact details, opening/viewing
times, admission pricing and any other relevant facts/details or features -
parking, travel notes, disability access, availability of refreshments, event
subject matter &etc. And a link; if the event or your organisation has a
web-page.
And please
mention any flyer-art or poster-/leaflet-scans but send by separate eMail, in
case they go to the 'junk' folder,
from where they can be recovered and marked safe, but only if I know they're
there!
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Toy News
Hong Kong
Supplying crappy clones and knock-offs for
half a century-plus, they have now added to the cannon of figures in art with
the Lady
Liberty Hong Kong installation. Consisting of a crowd of 150mm figures
of a female democracy protestor in white, among which is the black one carrying
a flag, based on the lone protestor known only as 'Alex', the work is hoping to
raise funds for the protesters, a previous statue having been vandalised by
pro-government 'tong' thugs . . . probably!
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The Works
Previously reported here as having
difficulties, their shares jumped last week on the news their own chairman had
sunk his own money into the firm as a confidence measure . . . more 'Army Men'
and Chinasaurs; less multicoloured sewing-buttons and poo-slime please!
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Toy Fair 2020
Made page 13 of last Wednesday's 'i' with
a 2/3rd's spread on the toys to watch-out for this year. Max Mindpower (the 'woke' bear, and clever credit card USB from two
years ago) has made steady inroads and is expecting to do even better this
year, only one item I'll be covering made the list - 15 Minutes to Self-Destruct a board game.
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Hawkin's Bazaar
Have gone into receivership for the second
time, the first time was near the start of the blog . . . about nine or ten
years ago, I think, so they may be saveable again, as they got a decade out of
the last rescue package!
I don't know how it will affect Tobar but there's been less and less Tobar product in HB for a while now, and the last time I was in there, they had no Hornby and the Iwako had disappeared, so if I was ever considered any part of an
adult target market/demographic, they've been failing - both ends of that likely
budget - for a year or so now!
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H is for How They Come In
That's it this week, two red squirrels and
a rather idiotic-looking fox-cub! All poured-resin, and if another charity shop
hadn't also had a squirrel, I wouldn't have gone back for the other two, but
fun, and one's a Tetley Premium!
I also bought a feeble-bay lot which isn't
here yet, two monster trucks (with figures - forthcoming separate post) and
something else I've already forgotten . . . thus it is! Oh, it was a stuffed
ginger-tabby kitten in a tartan-basket which is destined for presentation to
someone else on their Birthday! It meows when you press its tummy!
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Links
BMC's playing catch-up! Seen before here at Small Scale World (last March), but there's another shot halfway down the page.
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Received with Thanks
Brian Berke sent a load of shots to the
blog from New York over last weekend, and there was the previous week's little
lot from Peter Evans, which has already been Blogged; many belated-thanks to both. And Chris sent me an interesting thing to look at, but it'll be awhile before I can show you! Thanks Chris.
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Missed
Jersey Shore Toy Show last Sunday . . . . obviously New Jersey, not the Channel Islands! They didn't tell me in time - or at all - so I couldn't tell you!
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