Chinasaurs! The two oxide-brown ones and
the yellow one are variants of my favourite silicon-rubber set from my own
childhood, so well pleased to get them in the post! I think the pink one goes with
them but I don't remember having him when we were kids. Meat-eater gets the
ice-picks!
Sliding forward a few millennia's worth of millennia
and we see the rise of the hairy-pink monkeys, who, I'm sorry to report have
rather taken the role of T-Rex with added fire . . . power!
That all got too convoluted! The three in
front are ex-Tim Mee sculpts reduced-down
in size, possibly with permission and were issued in various carded sets by Toy Major (TM)™ and/or their associates and a Hornby model railway playset . . . period!
Behind them are - either side - figures
we've looked at before and will return to at some point, while in the middle is
the Safari cave-man engaging some
mega-fauna in a bit of extinction!
The Horse we saw earlier; it has some of the
lines of Texas sculpting but isn't a
known Texas thing; however Italy or
Spain is a likely origin? The 'big guy' is Phidal-like
or Disney-store, and presumably from
a Pocahontas play-set of some kind?
The brown-pair are lovely - for sub-scale/sub-standard
clones! I think probably Christmas crackers, but that would mean 'capsule'
elsewhere? I may have some more somewhere (it's the sort of thing I have
spirited away over the years), if I find them we'll have a closer look.
The Totem pole is very interesting as it's
a Comansi sculpt, but unmarked and
hard 'styrene. It also has a small cavity at the base-rear, which would seem to
facilitate the insertion of a card-holding peg, such as used by S for Star/Star Toys and others, so a larger set of theirs?
The running cavalryman is nice, modern I think
and slightly damaged, I dare-say they are out there somewhere in a tub of 100 -
Hing Fat, Americana? Someone like
that, but I don't know offhand?
Three late rack-toy clones, but different
for being Timpo 'swoppet' copies
rather than the usual Airfix (or Jean!) clones, another of the
premium-looking 'unknown' ones, a Texas backwoodsman/cavalry
scout rider, Siku smoker (larger size) and Toumoulage archer.
In front is a quite unusual figure who has
a plug-on base in the style of Timpo
or that Brazilian (?) lot who copied Britains,
but he's a relatively original sculpt, probably European anyone recognise him?
All polyethylene and seems to be factory paint and (because I've learnt to turn
my figures upside down, and read!) he's not marked 'Nardi', 'Italy' or even 'W.Germany',
having a smooth underside to the base.
There was lots of Wild West in Chris's
parcel, I've just shot a few of the interesting pieces for now, you may have
spotted in the first post, several Lone
Star shooting-game figures; I'm going to save them until I have a full set
in both colours, as I've blogged them here several times now and PW has
published the full set.
Civilians; a lovely soft-plastic Hong Kong
copy of the Gem golfer, usually HK
copies of Gem are hard polystyrene?
Then an unpainted Dinky road worker,
probably ex-outpainters leftovers, as they are usually painted?
Two little girls I know nothing about, the
same lifeboat crew as I think Chris sent before, but complete and I have since
confirmed that they are from the Frog
kit, the tool for which seems to have ended-up in Russia. Nice copy of the Corgi safari guide, seen here before but
only as a chewed/broken example!
Equally nice rubber fireman, who is very similar [in
material] to Auburn but smaller? I
guess some US maker and I'll try to find him before I do that page - which is
still happening! In front is another PVC figure, a petrol-attendant, but
kneeling, so probably included in a racing-car set?
Finishing-up with some footballers,
the small one is from the least-common type of Gem copy (this one is 'styrene)
with the oblong base, the other two (not necessarily on the right bases) are
from a recent part-work (I think, I did find them the other day or Chris sent
me a link?), anyway they are rather nice and - obviously - personality-specific
sculpts.
Thanks again to Chris for sharing these
with the rest of us and there's more to come - sci-fi, fantasy and TV/Movie
next!
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