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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.

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

T is for Teeny Tiny Torgano's

I'm pretty sure these are all Torgano, but I'm only 100% on the space figures as Ervino ID'd them a few years ago here as Small Scale World, however the others are so similar I can't see why they wouldn't all be from the same outfit?

Costume Doll Figures; Dirndl; Dolls of the World; Italian Space Toys; Italian Toy Figures; Landgirl; Made In Italy; Native Bowman; Novelty Figurines; Pocket Money Toys; Polystyrene Figures; Pulp Sci Fi Figurines; Red Indians; Scottish Dancer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spacemen; Togano Children; Torgano; Torgano Indian Brave; Torgano Scot; Torgano Spacemen; World Dolls;
Subject of the post with both scalers as they are a true in-between around 30mm. My two spacemen are to the left (similar to Co-Ma's); three civilians on the right and a lone Native American Indian (green) in the middle.

Costume Doll Figures; Dirndl; Dolls of the World; Italian Space Toys; Italian Toy Figures; Landgirl; Made In Italy; Native Bowman; Novelty Figurines; Pocket Money Toys; Polystyrene Figures; Pulp Sci Fi Figurines; Red Indians; Scottish Dancer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spacemen; Togano Children; Torgano; Torgano Indian Brave; Torgano Scot; Torgano Spacemen; World Dolls;
My two again, the red one seems to be a late one with the mould-face having been ground down (to remove a flash-inducing dink of some kind?), meaning the appearance of flash is created where the product-material meets the flattened surface of the - now shallower - other half of the tool. A similar performance has filled in the elbow-cavity of the blue one - see next shot.

Costume Doll Figures; Dirndl; Dolls of the World; Italian Space Toys; Italian Toy Figures; Landgirl; Made In Italy; Native Bowman; Novelty Figurines; Pocket Money Toys; Polystyrene Figures; Pulp Sci Fi Figurines; Red Indians; Scottish Dancer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spacemen; Togano Children; Torgano; Torgano Indian Brave; Torgano Scot; Torgano Spacemen; World Dolls;
I shot these on Adrian's stall a year-or-a-few-ago, and there's a third pose, the 'sonic golf-club' carrier! You can see how the earlier ones are both fuller-rounds than mine and that my red one is meant to be carrying Thor's hammer!

Costume Doll Figures; Dirndl; Dolls of the World; Italian Space Toys; Italian Toy Figures; Landgirl; Made In Italy; Native Bowman; Novelty Figurines; Pocket Money Toys; Polystyrene Figures; Pulp Sci Fi Figurines; Red Indians; Scottish Dancer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spacemen; Togano Children; Torgano; Torgano Indian Brave; Torgano Scot; Torgano Spacemen; World Dolls;
The Indians,; they may be one of the next lot, or they may be from a specific Wild West set, I don't know, and I only have the one pose, all damaged, evidencing the daftness of those who spent the 1970's writing to modelling magazines asking for glue'able polystyrene figures, and mirroring the problem with the similar-sized and also polystyrene Rospacks; especially the archers!

Costume Doll Figures; Dirndl; Dolls of the World; Italian Space Toys; Italian Toy Figures; Landgirl; Made In Italy; Native Bowman; Novelty Figurines; Pocket Money Toys; Polystyrene Figures; Pulp Sci Fi Figurines; Red Indians; Scottish Dancer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spacemen; Togano Children; Torgano; Torgano Indian Brave; Torgano Scot; Torgano Spacemen; World Dolls;
The civilaina figures seem to follow the 'Dolls of the World' pattern (lots of firms had similar sets back in the day, Marx and Thomas for instance) of national or 'ethnic' dress as- or of- children, and as stated above may include the Native American?

Here we have a figure who could be Dutch or a nurse maybe, the headdress is a bit ambiguous, but the twin hair-plats seem to have been a trope for Holland in similar sets like those of Commonwealth Plastics or Van Brode. I actually think it's probably Germany/Bavaria, with the braces suggesting the Dirndl of Southern Germany and the Tyrol?

Costume Doll Figures; Dirndl; Dolls of the World; Italian Space Toys; Italian Toy Figures; Landgirl; Made In Italy; Native Bowman; Novelty Figurines; Pocket Money Toys; Polystyrene Figures; Pulp Sci Fi Figurines; Red Indians; Scottish Dancer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spacemen; Togano Children; Torgano; Torgano Indian Brave; Torgano Scot; Torgano Spacemen; World Dolls;
While here we seem to be in Scotland but the gender is less clear although the hint of a sporran may indicate a young lad rather than a lad'ess! And he/she lacks accessories such as a drum, a set of bagpipes or a pair of swords to jump over?

Costume Doll Figures; Dirndl; Dolls of the World; Italian Space Toys; Italian Toy Figures; Landgirl; Made In Italy; Native Bowman; Novelty Figurines; Pocket Money Toys; Polystyrene Figures; Pulp Sci Fi Figurines; Red Indians; Scottish Dancer; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spacemen; Togano Children; Torgano; Torgano Indian Brave; Torgano Scot; Torgano Spacemen; World Dolls;
This young lady looks like a WWII British 'Land Girl' but is - I suspect - more aiming at what we might call 'Riviera Chic'? And is therefore (and modelled) more adolescent than the child-like figures of the previous three poses.

That's them; I don't know if they are from two sets or three, even the space figures are a bit juvenile so it may be the one? I don't know how many figures were in the/each set, nor whether there were aliens for the spacemen to fight, or cowboys to evict the Natives? Nor do I know how they were retailed, some kind of premium? Capsule machines? Little carded 'novelties'?

4 comments:

peterE said...

The little boy is not Scots. He is Greek - head dress gives it away

Hugh Walter said...

Cheers Peter, I wondered if it was attempting to be a side-hat, but it wasn't 'very' Scottish!

H

Anonymous said...

Hi! I have some Torgano figures (spacemen, aliens, civilians) and I need more informations about them. Would you be so kind and give me some explanations? My email address is bongiovannilu@gmail.com. thanks.

Hugh Walter said...

I only know what's written above bongiovannilu! Some kind of gum-ball or bagged pocket-money novelty?

H