And here's one of those Toy Fair reports
I've dragged out, but only the four months, this time though? I must be
slipping; I'll leave you to decide if it's date sensitive; and I really should
have ignored everything-else to get it out in a more timely manner? Once you've
reached the inevitable conclusion you can have a laugh at TJF and his
pomposity!
I shot these as I had obtained the
guardsman (below) a few weeks earlier in a mixed lot and it's always nice to ID
something, even if it's something a bit frivolous! They are similar to some of
the earlier stuff on this Blog, being simple constructs of basic wooden
shapes, with the addition of fabric, wool and coloured rope highlights.
Fiesta
Crafts (for that is who they are) do a range of
pencil-topped pencils, fridge magnets and stand-alone figurines, following a
similar pattern but with or without holes drilled in them or magnets glued to a
flat area.
All the common tropes are covered;
guardsman, pirate, princess, dragon etc . . . and seasonal stuff as seen in the
left-hand of these alternate counter displays, I'll be looking out for the
snowman!
I was enthusiastic-enough about them to
garner me a free gift of a knight; is he a Templer, a Teutonic or a Toughguy? I
don't know enough about my crusaders to commit to an answer on that one, but
it's definitely a cross on his surcoat - unless he's a steam-punk robot with an
integrated arrow-slit in his chest!
The guardsman who had come in with a mixed
charity-shop lot only a few weeks earlier is the magnetic variant; he has no
pencil-hole but a flatter area on his back with a small, inexpensive,
composite-material, disc-magnet.
That's Fiesta Crafts, they're out there,
they're fun, especially if you have young kids, or grandchildren, nephews/nieces
&etc. I can see them filling the same story-telling role as finger-puppets too?
2 comments:
There is something almost 'Trumpton' like to these figures. It's nice for kids that they come in so many forms, magnets, pencil toppers etc.
Yes Terra', or Pelham Puppets; I think that's the attraction, I've followed that linked blog less since they got more 'realistic'! In the early days of that blog they were simpler and consequently had more charm.
H
(that's no slight on the guys there, they do wonderful stuff and are clearly having fun, just my proclivities!)
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