T is for Toy Fair 2020 Reports - Tobar

Tobar didn't have much on display this year, or at least not much new or exciting for the readers of this Blog (so this is another post with no inherent or actual urgency!), but if they were busy in December extricating from or protecting themselves from the fallout of the Hawkin's Bazaar collapse, they probably had other things on their minds?

They did have a set of dinosaurs, which are of interest only because we will be seeing them again twice - if I get all the Toy Fair 2020 reports out . . . in a vague and untimely manner!

In case I don't [get them out in a timeless fashion], I'll point-out now that the same weirdly decorated (mouldy birthday-cake? Cambazolasaurus?) stegosaurus (far left - bottom) was to be seen on both HGL (Grossmann)'s stand (top left) and in the inventory of Keycraft's 'Fumfings' (top right) pocket-money/rack toy lines.

I think we saw these last year (I shot them while I was talking to the sale manager about Erwin's bullshit re- both Schylling and Supreme!), but I thought we'd look at them again in such an untimed procedure as they are really rather good sculpts of fancy goldfish, for what are really 'only' simple bath/garden toys - except for the cartoon eyes perhaps! Note the differential between the unit price and the Recommended Retail Price (RRP)!

So, if you're timing the exercise; that's Tobar 2020! Did you see him this week; TJF? I don't live anywhere near Woking, and have mentioned Fleet so often we can only conclude he's a very stupid man. he then grandly announced a post of rare or unusual figures and showed us a bunch of mostly seen-before stuff, half of which was Dulcop, common as muck . . . common as Airfix . . . box-ticking!

The next day came two good'ish posts and I began to think they'd turned it round (the good ship shitestuff), but it all seems to have petered-out in the second half of the week, and that was with all of them running around like busy  bees! Sweet little Merkle Lickspittle was dispatched to buy the jeep I showed you a couple of weeks ago, and while it's lovely to know they use this Blog as their purchasing guide (that the whole point of the New Production News tag!), they then Blogged it without a brand, so what - exactly - was the point? To show that they can sit in my dust any-time; badly? We already knew that! Very stupid men, and one of them's a university type!