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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.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

T is for Two - Cheapie Chinasaurs

Two recent purchases, both at the bottom-end of anyone's budget, but fun nevertheless and out there to be found!

A - Dimetrodon; B - Tyrannosaurus; Brachiosaurus; Brontosaurus; C - Dilophosaurus; Chinasaur Dino's; Chinasaurs; CJL Ltd.; D - Stegosaurus; Dated 2009; Dimetrodon Toy Figure; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Novelties; Dinosaur Set; Dinosaurs; Dinosuar; Diplodocus; E - Triceratops; F - Spinosaurus; G - Ankylosaurus; Gape Mouthed Chinasaurs; H - Styracosaurus; Museum Piece; Parasaurolophus; Set 111-P4; Set 111-P5; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Southall; Toy Major 2009; Toy Major'; Toys Mart; Wangshu; World Animal Collection; Yingxin Toys;
On the left a set of Chinasaurs imported by Toys Mart of Southall, shipped by Yingxin Toys and apparently manufactured by Wangshu; how much of that is 'phantom' is open to further exploration I simply can't be arsed with, but the latter-pair are sharing an address!

On the right the 'World Animal Collection' or 'Museum Piece' phantom-branded gape-mouthed Chinasaurs imported by CJL Ltd., of Essex, which are actually from Toy Major's catalogue and dated 2009.

A - Dimetrodon; B - Tyrannosaurus; Brachiosaurus; Brontosaurus; C - Dilophosaurus; Chinasaur Dino's; Chinasaurs; CJL Ltd.; D - Stegosaurus; Dated 2009; Dimetrodon Toy Figure; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Novelties; Dinosaur Set; Dinosaurs; Dinosuar; Diplodocus; E - Triceratops; F - Spinosaurus; G - Ankylosaurus; Gape Mouthed Chinasaurs; H - Styracosaurus; Museum Piece; Parasaurolophus; Set 111-P4; Set 111-P5; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Southall; Toy Major 2009; Toy Major'; Toys Mart; Wangshu; World Animal Collection; Yingxin Toys;
Both lots from the other sides, the Wangshu's aren't annotated so you'll have to christen them yourselves, some are obvious, some less so, but they are more realistic than the Toy Major's who are clearly gasping their last at the end of the great mass-extinction, or singing the anthem of the Valkyrie from Wagner's Ring cycle, it's not clear!

The Toy Major sculpts are marked with a full set of consumer information, among which the following can be ascertained;

Toy Major 2009

Set 111-P4

A - Dimetrodon
B - Tyrannosaurus
C - Dilophosaurus
D - Stegosaurus

Set 111-P5

E - Triceratops
F - Spinosaurus
G - Ankylosaurus
H - Styracosaurus

A - Dimetrodon; B - Tyrannosaurus; Brachiosaurus; Brontosaurus; C - Dilophosaurus; Chinasaur Dino's; Chinasaurs; CJL Ltd.; D - Stegosaurus; Dated 2009; Dimetrodon Toy Figure; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Novelties; Dinosaur Set; Dinosaurs; Dinosuar; Diplodocus; E - Triceratops; F - Spinosaurus; G - Ankylosaurus; Gape Mouthed Chinasaurs; H - Styracosaurus; Museum Piece; Parasaurolophus; Set 111-P4; Set 111-P5; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Southall; Toy Major 2009; Toy Major'; Toys Mart; Wangshu; World Animal Collection; Yingxin Toys;
The Wangshu animals are made of two thin-halves (much thinner than say - the halves of an aircraft kit), probably a polyethylene but it could be something with higher properties like a propylene polymer? And, while they all needed pressing together properly when they first came out of the pack, they do look very good for cheapies when done, and it's all friction, no glue. They have the same hollow leg-insides as those farm sets we saw back in a Rack Toy Month.

A - Dimetrodon; B - Tyrannosaurus; Brachiosaurus; Brontosaurus; C - Dilophosaurus; Chinasaur Dino's; Chinasaurs; CJL Ltd.; D - Stegosaurus; Dated 2009; Dimetrodon Toy Figure; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Novelties; Dinosaur Set; Dinosaurs; Dinosuar; Diplodocus; E - Triceratops; F - Spinosaurus; G - Ankylosaurus; Gape Mouthed Chinasaurs; H - Styracosaurus; Museum Piece; Parasaurolophus; Set 111-P4; Set 111-P5; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Southall; Toy Major 2009; Toy Major'; Toys Mart; Wangshu; World Animal Collection; Yingxin Toys;
Why they are called gape-mouthed Chinasaurs!

A - Dimetrodon; B - Tyrannosaurus; Brachiosaurus; Brontosaurus; C - Dilophosaurus; Chinasaur Dino's; Chinasaurs; CJL Ltd.; D - Stegosaurus; Dated 2009; Dimetrodon Toy Figure; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Novelties; Dinosaur Set; Dinosaurs; Dinosuar; Diplodocus; E - Triceratops; F - Spinosaurus; G - Ankylosaurus; Gape Mouthed Chinasaurs; H - Styracosaurus; Museum Piece; Parasaurolophus; Set 111-P4; Set 111-P5; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Southall; Toy Major 2009; Toy Major'; Toys Mart; Wangshu; World Animal Collection; Yingxin Toys;
The Wangshu can almost be paired-up; by colour or type, the odd 'ones' out being the skinny green one and the triceratops, but otherwise there are pairs of kerthunkersaurs, meat-eaters, para-fersopholophdopolus . . . 'duck-horns' and the sauropods? . . . 'Big-veggies' - a sub-scale; as always!

A - Dimetrodon; B - Tyrannosaurus; Brachiosaurus; Brontosaurus; C - Dilophosaurus; Chinasaur Dino's; Chinasaurs; CJL Ltd.; D - Stegosaurus; Dated 2009; Dimetrodon Toy Figure; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Novelties; Dinosaur Set; Dinosaurs; Dinosuar; Diplodocus; E - Triceratops; F - Spinosaurus; G - Ankylosaurus; Gape Mouthed Chinasaurs; H - Styracosaurus; Museum Piece; Parasaurolophus; Set 111-P4; Set 111-P5; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Southall; Toy Major 2009; Toy Major'; Toys Mart; Wangshu; World Animal Collection; Yingxin Toys;
The two sets between them give up a trio of kerthunkersaurs and three 'ceratopsians, and all make up what I consider the medium size-bracket of Chinasaurs, paint's basic on both sets (price-bracket!), and I think the Toy Major's are taken from older tools than the 2009 now etched in their tummies.

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