T is for Toy Fair 2020 Reports - Toyway - Wbritain

Peter had been chatting to the sales rep' for a while when I caught up with him and so knows more about the plastics (same plan as last year and the year before . . . probably the same outcome - nothing!) which may be in PW at some point. Peter sculpted some of the early Toyway medieval stuff, and some Romans they never issued.

But they are carrying the tourist line from Wbritain, an American company who like to think they are the descendants of Britains, but they're not, Tomy have the farm and zoo, and DSG have the bulk of the Deetail, while everything else (Herald and Eye's Right) seems to have gone forever.

I asked the rep' if these were cheaper than the 'collector' figures and he said yes, but not by much which is a bit troubling because the prices of 'new metal from them, K&C and Figarti is just stupid. I suspect however he didn't know that these companies are charging anything from 25-quid to over £60 for even single foot figures, and that these will be found to be a lot cheaper?

And they will be found in the kiosks, museums, galleries and heritage sites of the London or wider-UK tourist trails' gift shops. Styled to match the Britains New Metal Models which followed 71's Detail in the late 1973, but I think they are solid poured metal, not the separate-based die-cast alloy figures of the 'proper' Britains back then.

Although don't get me wrong - these aren't new, it's just the first time I've photographed them (and they might be in updated packaging?), but they look fine; if they're around a fiver for a foot figure I'll probably pass, but if the boxed sets are under £20 I might be tempted, by one, as a sample?