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.
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
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.
Why they are called gape-mouthed
Chinasaurs!
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!
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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