This article's folder was titled 'Shelfies
II' revealing the fact that it was supposed to follow-on from another (then
recent) shelfies post, which was back in Jan/Feb I think . . . needless to say
it never happened!
These were shot by Brain Berke back in the
Autumn of last year, but will still be around and about. I don't actually
collect these; I have enough of a problem with the few sticky/silicon things I
do have to start amassing a new genre of them (the early ones leech gunk
everywhere!), but there are probably some people out there who specialise in
such things?
Wall Tumblers, Wall Walkers, Sticky
Dribblers, Mirror Mountaineers (I made that one up!), Window Jumpers . . .
whatever they're called they seem to be having a renaissance at the moment, or
is it that they've always been there but I've been noticing them more now I'm
looking harder? Imperial, still going
strong, bringing cheap rack-toys to the masses!
I'd had a session in TKMaxx just after Christmas, which mostly reprises what I've shown
in previous shelfie posts, but you can never have too much imagery! Here we
have more of the Dr. Steve Hunters'
dinosaurs from Geoworld, and while we
may have seen one or two of them before, they are really lovely and I just shot
all the offerings they had that day which happened to collage nicely as a
quartet.
Fantasy dragons from NBC Apparel, relatively compatible with smaller scales, they could
be used with larger figures, if only to reduce space-used by constricting
'scale'. Of note is that colours other than those shown on the artwork are
available.
The 'toob' of dinosaurs is also an NBC Apparel branded set, I don't know
who was responsible for the large 'baby' farm animals behind them (probably Peterkin?), which I also suspect may be squeakers,
but if you have kids or (who are we kidding!) grand-kids, these might be worth
looking out for and they are figural! But it was the Dino's I was trying to
shoot!
Other toobs include sea-life in the same
series as the dinosaurs in the previous shot, and larger dinosaurs and wild
animals in longer tubes without the internal divider-card but with 'filler'
palm trees - both sales techniques reduce the 'body-count'!
We looked at these - also NBC - around Christmas-time but I took
some more shots, some of possibly different animals (I think the giraffe is
new), large, hollow, squeegee animals, but quite accurate (given what scant data
we have beyond the stone bones!), and - in the case of the big 'Dippy' dino' -
as close to 54mm compatible as you are going to find!
Brian also sent these a while ago, I've
seen a prehistoric tube from them in their normal series, but these are a
larger scale and blister-carded, probably, primarily aimed at natural history
museum's gift-shops. Courtesy of Safari;
it's one for the family-album - great-great-greatx20 granddad and
some of his decedents/our relatives!
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