H is for How They Come In - Adrian

Obviously in the normal course of events, Adrian and I run into each other through the year on the show circuit, and he often has a little bag or tub of goodies for me and/or the blog, and from time to time I even pay for the odd thing!

Those normal events are no more! And may not be again for some time . . . (let that sink in, I wonder if the Governor of Georgia is reading this, the meatheaded fucktard) . . . so I was very grateful to receive what would have been May's 'stuff' in the post yesterday, along with the five red, soft polyethylene 'Captain Video's we looked at a while ago, after I'd shot them on his stall at a Sandown Park Toy Show passim.

Only the one shot, it's a treat before bedtime! The gorilla is rather nice, he's hard polystyrene plastic which is unusual, it might make him french, or something from a tourist trinket the rest of which is long gone; anyone recognise him? Seated figures are Slater's I think, copies of the Merit versions of the Wardie/Mastermodels die-casts.

The Corgi cyclist is relatively common and I have a few somewhere, but the bike is much harder to find and is a tiny delight with die-cast wheels and a body/frame made of a flexible nylon/rayon type; early polypropylene? Accompanied by one of the cracker-toy 1:72nd scale copies of Britains standing cylist and machine.

The little boy with the 'UGH!' protest sign looks like Bart Simson, but probably predates him by a decade or two? I think he may be from a board game, and - from the base - possibly MB, but I'm not tagging it, just a hunch at the moment and he could be an early Simpsons tie-in, they went viral (as the saying is now) almost immediately?. The rear of the sign also has a sticker, reading 'NO WAY'.

Various other railway bits including another of the [penciled-in] Tiny Trojan's, the spacemen/aliens and an Indian who looks to be from the same source, while also looking like a European ('an' surely?) premium, which might be a useful clue? The three circus figures have some of the properties of Supreme, some of the properties of Pioneer and some of the properties of New Ray figures, so some work to be done there, but circus sets aren't thick on the ground so I'll get to the truth!

Favorite dinosaurs, or, at least; very similar to my favorite childhood dino's, but a little fuller-bodied. Finally a Spot On doctor and the seated lady (bottom right) might be Spot On too, but Dinky had similar figures and I think both lots of drivers/passengers were from the hand of Charles Stadden - the dongles should hold the answer?