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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.

Sunday, February 9, 2020

T is for Toy Fair 2020 Reports - Padgett Brothers (A-to-Z) - (1) Paint Your Own Dinosaur Sets

We may have seen these before, but if we have it would only further underline the point I was making elsewhere the other day - that of the lack of urgency in these posts due to their paucity of time-sensitive contents! A to Z's Jurassic Beasts; Dino Discovery, Paint Your Own Dinosaurs . . .

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When I say 'seen before', I know we've had paint-your-own dinosaurs before, from The Works and Mellissa & Doug for certain, and somewhere else for sure, I don't know if we have had these specific sets?

I cropped this shot to show a couple of other lines, the Relic Dig sets we've also seen before in passing, while the fire-engines are a bit infantile and don't have figures so, pah!

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The six-animal one is likely to be the better value, but Padgett are 'rack-toy' importers so wherever they end-up, the unit-price is likely to be kept low. As I may have said before the sculpts are likely to turn-up elsewhere as factory-painted models under another/other brand/s?

017370; 021117; 6 Assorted; 6 Pieces; A to Z; A-to-Z; Dino Discovery; Dinosaur PYO; Jurassic Beasts; Padgett Brothers (A-Z); Paint Your Own; PYO Dinosaurs; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stegosaurus; Styracosaurus; Triceratops; Tricerotops; Tyrannosaurus Rex; 2020 Toy Fair; Kensington Olympia Toy Fair; London Toy Fair; Toy Fair 2020;
The larger, single models look to be very-well sculpted indeed; hardly 'Chinasaurs', and while kids will inevitably cover them in garish schemes, a serious painter could have a lot of fun with them . . . not that a serious painter can't repaint already decorated ones (they do-so with stunning results on the animal-collectors' forums), but a blank-canvas can sometimes help the ideas flow!

017370; 021117; 6 Assorted; 6 Pieces; A to Z; A-to-Z; Dino Discovery; Dinosaur PYO; Jurassic Beasts; Padgett Brothers (A-Z); Paint Your Own; PYO Dinosaurs; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Stegosaurus; Styracosaurus; Triceratops; Tricerotops; Tyrannosaurus Rex; 2020 Toy Fair; Kensington Olympia Toy Fair; London Toy Fair; Toy Fair 2020;
The paint mix is a little better in the six-animal sets, I would say, some of these are going to end up pretty bright! Again; both the stegosaur and the T-Rex are nice looking sculpts.

3 comments:

Jan Ferris said...

These seem rather interesting, albeit you end up with a pink dino/

Hugh Walter said...

I know Jan - you'd expect a PYO set to have block, white and the three primaries with a green or brown? More Dino's tomorrow!

H

Hugh Walter said...

Block? New colour . . . right here!

H