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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, May 17, 2020

ELC is for Extra Large Crowd

Or - B is for a Bunch O' Biggun's

I'm not being lazy, I'm out in the garden, this isn't the weather for blogging; this is the weather for a good dose of fresh-air! Especially when you have firewood to cut, firewood to split for the coming winter, and a tree or two to deal with! Shot a slow-worm yesterday, so that's all the native reptiles bar an Adder photographed in two weeks . . . and I got Adders twice a few years ago!

But I have a load on on the back-burner, have received all sorts of stuff from Arto, Brian B, Chris Smith and Theo van der Weerden by eMail, two lovely lots from Chris and Peter E via the mail system and am awaiting a few more bits and bobs to add to things.

But I did mention - just as we went into lockdown I think - that I was bringing all the ELC figures together and would Blog them as a group, and this is that post!

Barbari; Barbarian; Early Learners; Early Learning Center; Early Learning Centre; ELC Fantasy Figures; Fantastic Beasts; Fantasy Figures; Fantasy Models; Fantasy Toy Figures; Flying Ork; Giant; Heroic Figure; King & Queen; Knight In Armour; Medieval Figures; Medieval Toy Figure; Monsters; Orge; Ork Toy Figure; Skeleton Soldier; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Troll Toys; Witch;
The good guys, or at least; I assume they are meant to be good-guys for the target age-group who may still believe in such fairy-tale nonsense! We all know those at the top are robber-barons, intent on screwing someone, somewhere, whether they have title over them, or not!

There's a weapon missing from the palace guard/man-at-arms and it's probably an axe or a lance, as his sword is in it’s scabbard?

Barbari; Barbarian; Early Learners; Early Learning Center; Early Learning Centre; ELC Fantasy Figures; Fantastic Beasts; Fantasy Figures; Fantasy Models; Fantasy Toy Figures; Flying Ork; Giant; Heroic Figure; King & Queen; Knight In Armour; Medieval Figures; Medieval Toy Figure; Monsters; Orge; Ork Toy Figure; Skeleton Soldier; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Troll Toys; Witch;
Might be good, might be bad, and probably depends on how much silver you have to cross their palms with! What games-master's might call the 'independent adventurers', or 'non-aligned', the witch looks to be a good fairy, the other two look a bit rough-about-the-gills to me! I could fix the swords, but they'll only bend again when they go back in their bag, better to wait until they have a tub or shelf of their own and straighten them the once.

Barbari; Barbarian; Early Learners; Early Learning Center; Early Learning Centre; ELC Fantasy Figures; Fantastic Beasts; Fantasy Figures; Fantasy Models; Fantasy Toy Figures; Flying Ork; Giant; Heroic Figure; King & Queen; Knight In Armour; Medieval Figures; Medieval Toy Figure; Monsters; Orge; Ork Toy Figure; Skeleton Soldier; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Troll Toys; Witch;
Badder than bad things which have gone to university and had themselves elected joint-heads of the being really-bad department! Some sort of Troll on the left and an airborne Ork on the right . . . an airborne Ork? Isn't it enough than Orks are pretty awful already, that you'd go and give them a pair of wings, f 'f 'sake!! And these were sold to five-year-olds!

Is it a Troll and an Ork, or an Ork and a Goblin? Flying Goblins . . . even worse!

Barbari; Barbarian; Early Learners; Early Learning Center; Early Learning Centre; ELC Fantasy Figures; Fantastic Beasts; Fantasy Figures; Fantasy Models; Fantasy Toy Figures; Flying Ork; Giant; Heroic Figure; King & Queen; Knight In Armour; Medieval Figures; Medieval Toy Figure; Monsters; Orge; Ork Toy Figure; Skeleton Soldier; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Troll Toys; Witch;
If the previous two were bad; one of these is dead and the other's eight-foot and has burning-eyes! These are the anti-heroes of the piece and no mistake!

Barbari; Barbarian; Early Learners; Early Learning Center; Early Learning Centre; ELC Fantasy Figures; Fantastic Beasts; Fantasy Figures; Fantasy Models; Fantasy Toy Figures; Flying Ork; Giant; Heroic Figure; King & Queen; Knight In Armour; Medieval Figures; Medieval Toy Figure; Monsters; Orge; Ork Toy Figure; Skeleton Soldier; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Troll Toys; Witch;
Berserker says -
Cumm'ooohn dude, this isn't funny! I don't mind the odd 60-mil, but . . . WTF?

Scale wise these are collectively around 90mm but vary considerably, although at this size it doesn't really matter, especially given the fantasy nature of them as a whole, and they will go perfectly with similar figures from other manufacturers.

To the eyes the three medievals are 80mm (King, designed to ride and stand) and 85, the witch is only 75-mil, while the rest are 90-100mm, the red-eye from horrorville being the top end.

2 comments:

Jan Ferris said...

What a motley crew you have here. Where did you acquire these misfits?

Hugh Walter said...

Hi Jan - hope you're staying safe; they mostly came in ones and twos over the last couple of years in Charity Shop (thrift store to you?) mixed-lots. ELC folded a few years ago and the figures owners' are growing-up, so Mum's are clearing the odds to charity!