R is for Return - to Hing Fat!

It's funny; TJF has been posting the same things I've recently posted all spring and through into the summer, always following the 'less is . . . err . . . less' rule of proving with no help from anyone (despite lots of help!) that he's not a legend, of any kind, well; maybe a legendary idiot!

The funniest incident was after I did four posts on Jean Wild West and copies, only for him to show us three figures . . . in two shots! A post in which he started by hinting my theory on the moulds might be wrong, but ended-up sort of saying it might be right - in other words; a totally pointless and unnecessary post, which was dripping with cowardice, lacking any moral fibre and ethically questionable.

The weirdest incidence of which (usually it's a single-figure box-ticking exercise) was when he had two days on Hing Fat . . . because I'd had two days on Hing Fat! Insecure - or what?

Back on the 1st of May I did a post on divers which was ostensibly about the Lone Star divers and some of the copies, but we looked at a few other things, and Hing Fat got a mention, as a result there was a follow-up specifically on Hing Fat on the 2nd - always bearing in mind this is A) pretty shite 'rack-toy' stuff and B) mostly-/pretty-contemporary production.

This lead - on the 4th of May, to JTF dancing with ape-men! I've cropped this out of the website's image, TJF did the same, but cropped tight to the cavemen set, this then gave his shitter of a sidekick an excuse to wax lyrical in his trusted manner (relatively incomprehensible) about the Terracotta warriors and some jobbers thus;

"The HF figures come or show first since late 2019 with the terracotta Chinese warriors and two other rests .So far appear not be distributed here yet as far Steven international and DD distributor for main hobby have none yet ,The APE MAN appear to looks as DFC former caveman copies or extracted poses from ..

my thoughts ."

Now, the first point to make is that the webpage is actually dated . . . to January 2016 (international Toy Fair season), not 'late 2019' as he informs us with his usual as-fact making it up as he goes along again prose!

Second, the page (which is almost certainly the artwork from that year's printed catalogue) doesn't show 'two other rests' (I'm assuming he means sets), it shows eight in total.

So he knew the Terracotta Warriors were there, but forgot the rest . . . despite the fact that they were still - and remain - online? Anyway, and in the meantime an innocent (? Or plant) commenter posted a link to the webpage, rather taking the wind out of their sales, but providing the excuse for a second post on the subject, you see . . . if I can have two posts on it; so can they!

This turn of events produced an almost identical comment from the jabberwocky jerk-off, being equally as incomprehensible, yet covering the same main points;

"They looks like have ape heads in body copies poses of former DFC brand cavemen and some variation of then ,they looks interesting still .
So far main two distributor(D&D and Stevens international hobby)here have not distribute then ,but are available from Alibaba express at bulk purchase with very obscure photo again
Will see where they pup up .i’m more interested in terracotta figures set"

Now, the whole exercise raises a couple of relevant points beyond the fact the TJF often acts stupid in a post to apparently facilitate Erwin's wanking-lyrical in the comments; a sort of pre-arranged planting or reverse entrapment!

Firstly neither D&D nor Stevens are 'Main' anything, being a couple of run-of-the-mill jobbers, The main importers - were one to feel compelled to make a list, rather than just making it up as one went along - would have Imperial, Jaru or Amscan ahead of both, and - as we have seen here - the Greenbriar/DTSC cross-border partnership is another who are very busy, as are SCS Direct, Hunsen/JPW, OKK and that little group of brands round Fun Express/OTC, there's Funtastic . . . he is literally dribbling unsubstantiated garbage for the sake of seeing his own voice on the Internet!

But . . . doing so as fact, with the support of Stadinger, and as a result damaging the hobby. Damage such luminaries as Dittmann, Bergner and Carrick are happy to turn a blind eye to, in order to justify their side-taking in a war started by the two miserable muppets.

Secondly, had either of them bothered to visit Hing Fat's Faceplant page they would have found exactly how the figures look, and that they look nothing like the Dimensions for Children (became MTC) figures! This image was dated 10th May 2016, i.e. later the same year as the webpage.

Of interest to us as I think we've seen those red-yellow pterodactyls here at Small Scale World before now, in a generic bagged-set being sold at the seaside?

So, in less than 70-words, repeated twice in a different order (but equally illiterate) he manages [as fact] to miss-attribute the importance of two jobbers, get the date wrong by three years (despite the correct date being handed to him twice - if he looked) and suggest a false origin for the figures! All so that they could look as if they can do whatever I'm doing?

Does TJF think these follow-me's are clever? Does he really think they are somehow victories, of some kind? Is he awarding himself Brownie-points in his own head - toward the Girl Guide's Annual Jamboree 'I beat that Walters' badge? he didn't know an Emenee figure the other day (a couple of weeks after I Blogged the coach set - fancy that huh!), yet has been credited with being instrumental in the finding of the original information? Too stupid.

This would have scored half-a-point - had they bothered to notice it! On the same page were/are American Footballers being offered as Rugby Football players, presumably aimed at buyers from an ex-colonial, English-speaking market, despite the body-armour and grid-iron helmets!

As it happens I agree with him (the cockwackin' monkey-lizard) on the Terracotta Army figures, but anyone who's dealt with Hing Fat will tell you; you have to put in huge orders, multiples of thousands of units, so these may never see the light of day, because if someone like Bill V didn't, or BMC won't order them, no one will.

Aimed at museums, most of the bottom row on that webpage are probably going nowhere, but a large organisation like the Met' or the UK's British Museum, or one of the larger natural history museums might order enough - there's a nice-looking Mummy in the Egyptian-themed set?

The sports sets may struggle for the same reason - lack of fan-base and no one willing to take a punt, those days when the Toysaurus ordered 10,000 units of everything on the page are long gone, and people like Smyths (here) don't stock the cheapies, while Walmart, Target and co., haven't fully picked-up the baton yet.

The date was staring them in the face; they made up a new one!

The facts were staring them in the face; they invented some rubbish!

A small story was staring them in the face; they ignored it!

We are going to spend the rest of today, looking at Hing Fat stuff the derisible-duo could have run a story on, which might have scored some points, in some idiot's head.