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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.

Friday, June 12, 2020

P is for Princess Polymer's Perfect Pumpkin Pimped for Prince Plastic's Posh Prom!

"And be back before midnight young lady!"

Proving the old adage (we'll it's an old adage here as I keep saying it, it's one of the reasons I have so many 'eemies' (as they call theirs) in the 'old guard'!) that none of this stuff is rare!

"Jack and the Beanstalk"; "Three Bears"; 1430A - "Cinderella"; 1430A - "Jack and the Beanstalk"; 1430A - "Red Riding Hood"; 1430A - Goldilocks; 1435A - Carton Assortment of 1436/1437; 1436 - "Cinderella"; 1:No scale; Boxed; Cake Decorations; Christmas Crackers; Early British; Emenee Toy Company; Fairy Tales; G; Jack and Jill; Make; British; Make; USA; Marcel Jovine; Mother Goose; Once Upon a Time; Plymr - Ethylene; Plymr - Styrene; Renwal; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Three Bears; Transogram; Unknown Figures; Vol. 1 - The Three Little Pig; Vol. 2 - Little Red Riding Hood; Vol. 3 - Jack and the Beanstalk; Vol. 4 - Hansel and Gretel; Vol. 5 - Goldilocks; Vol. 6 - Cinderella; Went up the Hill;
I grabbed this the other day, the seller had two left at time of writing, grab-one before they're gone!

And before we go any further it's worth reminding you of these posts;


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and then click 'older post'

"Jack and the Beanstalk"; "Three Bears"; 1430A - "Cinderella"; 1430A - "Jack and the Beanstalk"; 1430A - "Red Riding Hood"; 1430A - Goldilocks; 1435A - Carton Assortment of 1436/1437; 1436 - "Cinderella"; 1:No scale; Boxed; Cake Decorations; Christmas Crackers; Early British; Emenee Toy Company; Fairy Tales; G; Jack and Jill; Make; British; Make; USA; Marcel Jovine; Mother Goose; Once Upon a Time; Plymr - Ethylene; Plymr - Styrene; Renwal; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Three Bears; Transogram; Unknown Figures; Vol. 1 - The Three Little Pig; Vol. 2 - Little Red Riding Hood; Vol. 3 - Jack and the Beanstalk; Vol. 4 - Hansel and Gretel; Vol. 5 - Goldilocks; Vol. 6 - Cinderella; Went up the Hill;
How they arrived, in a little poly-bag like this they could have been aimed at cake decorators, Christmas crackers (so I'll stick Culpitt and Tom Smith in the tags), arcade crane-machines or travelling showground hoopla stalls? The point is, this is the third iteration of the two 'sets' of these, which ten years ago were 'rare' and only visible as a couple of thumbnails on TSHQ, but which are now becoming 'old hat'!

"Jack and the Beanstalk"; "Three Bears"; 1430A - "Cinderella"; 1430A - "Jack and the Beanstalk"; 1430A - "Red Riding Hood"; 1430A - Goldilocks; 1435A - Carton Assortment of 1436/1437; 1436 - "Cinderella"; 1:No scale; Boxed; Cake Decorations; Christmas Crackers; Early British; Emenee Toy Company; Fairy Tales; G; Jack and Jill; Make; British; Make; USA; Marcel Jovine; Mother Goose; Once Upon a Time; Plymr - Ethylene; Plymr - Styrene; Renwal; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Three Bears; Transogram; Unknown Figures; Vol. 1 - The Three Little Pig; Vol. 2 - Little Red Riding Hood; Vol. 3 - Jack and the Beanstalk; Vol. 4 - Hansel and Gretel; Vol. 5 - Goldilocks; Vol. 6 - Cinderella; Went up the Hill;
It's so cool! The mice needed some straightening with hot water (and I mean 'hot', this is polyethylene, not PVC, so a boiling kettle poured down the reins/traces for a good 15 or twenty seconds, then pulled taught and pressed against a piece of cold marble (cutting board) or steel (draining board), needed two goes, but right as ninep'nce now!

♫♫♪ "We will pull it, we will drag it, to the party, how, how, how . . .
we will pull it, we will drag it; lets get going, now, now, now" ♫♪♪♪

Obviously with this kind of ex-shop stock, it tends to look like it was made yesterday, and while it probably is later than the stuff we looked at last time, it's clearly marked 'No307 Made in Hong Kong' down both sets of the hard polystyrene suspension, so it must be at least 30 years old?

"Jack and the Beanstalk"; "Three Bears"; 1430A - "Cinderella"; 1430A - "Jack and the Beanstalk"; 1430A - "Red Riding Hood"; 1430A - Goldilocks; 1435A - Carton Assortment of 1436/1437; 1436 - "Cinderella"; 1:No scale; Boxed; Cake Decorations; Christmas Crackers; Early British; Emenee Toy Company; Fairy Tales; G; Jack and Jill; Make; British; Make; USA; Marcel Jovine; Mother Goose; Once Upon a Time; Plymr - Ethylene; Plymr - Styrene; Renwal; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Three Bears; Transogram; Unknown Figures; Vol. 1 - The Three Little Pig; Vol. 2 - Little Red Riding Hood; Vol. 3 - Jack and the Beanstalk; Vol. 4 - Hansel and Gretel; Vol. 5 - Goldilocks; Vol. 6 - Cinderella; Went up the Hill;
The three figures; these are unmarked and like the mice, a standard or 'Airfix'-soldier polyethylene, so probably the same ones previously (or subsequently?) supplied to Transogram?

2 comments:

Jan Ferris said...

Hugh

Nice find. I am very fond of small parts needing to be assembled. (I love your title 'P is for...')

Jan

Hugh Walter said...

Cheers Jan, they were a bit pricey, but lack of rarity is not the same thing as availability, and when might I see them again? And - if I ever find them in a different colorway . . . I can start building a fleet of leguminous limousines!

H