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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.

Saturday, August 22, 2020

P is for Prototypes?

If TJF and his chattering, ventriloquist's glove, monkey-puppet (see earlier post today) had done a bit of searching instead of picking the low-hanging fruit . . . so low they ended up with their faces in the dirt - they might have found these on a British patent application site;

GB701995002051213; GB701995002051214; GB701995002051215; GB701995002051216; Hing Fat; Hing Fat Brave Star; Hing Fat Prototypes; Hing Fat Space Men; Hing Fat Toy; Prototype Figures; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Figures; Space Warriors;
Registered by Hing Fat in October 1995, and given the design number GB2051216 (now expired), this and the following three figures seem to have been the start of a planned sci-fi range of space warriors and robot/android figures, probably of a 3-to-4½-inch action figure type, but with no obvious points of articulation, they may well have been intended as smaller solids?

GB701995002051213; GB701995002051214; GB701995002051215; GB701995002051216; Hing Fat; Hing Fat Brave Star; Hing Fat Prototypes; Hing Fat Space Men; Hing Fat Toy; Prototype Figures; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Figures; Space Warriors;
From the left; GB2051213, GB2051214 and GB2051215 (I think?), there's an obvious provision for separate weapons, and the possibility of a removable helmet on '15, I would imagine if they were going to be 54/60mm solids that the planned material would have been a PVC-type soft polymer? Has anyone ever seen these are a retail item/commercial prospect?

Both images are false-coloured by me from B&W originals.

I tried to find the original page (to give you the link) and couldn't! Google is really shit now, it's so commercially-oriented, it's almost impossible to find useful stuff, even if you know it was there years ago! But I did fond this page . . . with another figure from this 'set', but registered in 1994! I think the page is actually dead, as it takes ages to load?

GB701995002051213; GB701995002051214; GB701995002051215; GB701995002051216; Hing Fat; Hing Fat Brave Star; Hing Fat Prototypes; Hing Fat Space Men; Hing Fat Toy; Prototype Figures; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Figures; Space Warriors;

GB701995002051213; GB701995002051214; GB701995002051215; GB701995002051216; Hing Fat; Hing Fat Brave Star; Hing Fat Prototypes; Hing Fat Space Men; Hing Fat Toy; Prototype Figures; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Figures; Space Warriors;
Five minutes later and I found a few more, but I'll let you find them from the link! It looks like a set of Power Ranger knock-off's (added to the tag list!) registered in 1994, renewed in 1999 and struck out in 2007, and the set of space figures I'd already found from the following-year? The pages get faster once you've opened a few too!

Note the definite ring hands on what I now suspect were going to be 65/70mm vinyls?

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