S is for Shelfies - Geoworld, Imperial, NBC Apparel & Safari Etc . . .

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-great^x20 granddad and some of his decedents/our relatives!