T is for Toy Fair 2020 Reports - Padgett Brothers (A-to-Z) - (2) Farmer Giles' Farm Yard Play Sets

It's nice to go to the toy fair and ID something which was a question-mark not that long ago here at Small Scale World but that's what happened just over two weeks ago on Padgett's stand at Toy Tair 2020.

It's actually rather nice to see some people are still doing the old-school rack-toys; A to Z Farm Series; an eclectic mix of components which can enhance a collection of existing animals in any scale, as there's very little 'in-scale' here, but it nicely covers a 40-60mm bracket!

The figure we saw in the lot from Chris Smith over/after Christmas (I saw it over Christmas; you saw it after Christmas!) is the one on the right here, you may remember I thought it might be from the same source as those funny-little Chinese warriors from Plastic Warrior's show last May and seeing three more hasn't changed my mind greatly, but I'd say these are slightly better sculpted, and less 2D (in the case of the woman at least), but the subject-matter (farmers) is more familiar.

The other set is pretty much the same with an identical half-relief US-Dutch style farmhouse, different out-building, tractor and trailer, one farm and one wild animal, a tree, crops & accessories and a bunch of signs . . .a working level-crossing barrier?

The other two figures; I think I may have the muck-fork guy somewhere as well? These two match the farmhouse with a US 1950's look about them, but the other two are more Russian (her - the big felt-boots), and - weirdly - a sort of Euro-horticultural, for the spade-wielding chap.

Farmer Giles [of Ham!] Farm Yard Play Sets - good fun, and four figures which WILL turn up in mixed lots, because they already ARE!