A
crime; a sin; a monumental act of stupidity I have still to fall-for a possible
four-more times! Still, it's a while since we added a Galoob to the tag list, and getting the Spice Girls into the metadata won't hurt traffic!
Probably
my favourite spice-girl (if I have one?), Posh was a haughty, humorless,
thin-lipped tart, Baby was . . . well; a baby! Scary wasn't and Ginger was a
bit OTT, but little Mel C was just a spunky Liverpudlian with a bit of attitude
and 'up fer'it, jahnowhatahmeeen yer
scally!'
Years
ago, we had half a pallet of these to shift at the on-line auction house I
worked for and they were bloody hard work, with a 99p start-price 'business-model'
at the firm, we let a lot go for 99p, even whole sets of five, some people got
mega-bargains!
I
nearly got my mate JB to bid on a lot for me at the time, but I couldn't bring myself
to subject him to the ignominy of taking delivery of-, or providing house-room
for- five Spice Girl dolls! I did get
him to bid successfully on the Star Wars
stuff we were selling at the same time!
I
daren't check what they go for now, but suffice to say I paid too much for it,
I won't be telling you what that was, and you can be assured that everything
bar the little figure was dropped into the Blue Cross animal-charity shop last
Monday [last, last, last, last, last, last, last Monday now]! Sometimes you
have to cut your losses and run, to save face; not with your mates, but with
the chap in the mirror!
The
little figure, however, is in the collection for keeps, I've been waiting for
them to turn-up in mixed lots since I first became aware of them, and that was
so long ago I gave up waiting and bought a whole caboodle a fortnight ago, just
to get one!
Marked
with a number and based to match the later combat infantry and Star Wars Micro Machines, the Galoob DNA is clear and as a standalone
figure, just a young civilian woman; suitable for O-gauge railways! I wonder if
that's where they all are; waiting for trains!
By
now you've worked-out that each of the Spice
Girl dolls comes with its own doll, the packing of which mirrors the
packing of the larger dolls box, I still have four to locate and that's it . .
. a bit horrid, but it had to happen - Toys is toys . . . all of them!
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