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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, April 10, 2021

T is for Two - Webbs Rack Toys

Previously these pirates (1st set below) have been attributed to Dollar General in the US, I now seem to have a UK brand-mark, while the knights are 2nd or 3rd generation copies of the original 1970's Britains Deetail copies out of Hong Kong, now marked 'China' (like the pirates) and being hawked by the same rack-toy name - Webbs.

Britains Deetail; Cannon; Carded Knight Set; Carded Pirate Set; Carded Toys; Deetail Knights; Deetail Turks; Dollar General; Dollar General Pirates; Gwynedd; Knights; Lady Pirate; Little Boat; Little Jolly Boat; LL59 5RW; Menai Bridge; Mounted Knights; Pirates; Play Set; Play-Sets; Playset; Rack Toys; Rowing Boat; S Webb and Son; Saracen Warriors; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Super Knights; Supertoy; Supertoy Pirates; Webbs; WST048; WST051;
Packaging is about as generic as it comes on the front, but there is a consumer info panel and what looks like a phantom branding (but is actually S Webb and Son of Menai Bridge, Gwynedd) printed on the otherwise plain back, and the WST048 set's blister is 'space-filled' with spurious shite!

Britains Deetail; Cannon; Carded Knight Set; Carded Pirate Set; Carded Toys; Deetail Knights; Deetail Turks; Dollar General; Dollar General Pirates; Gwynedd; Knights; Lady Pirate; Little Boat; Little Jolly Boat; LL59 5RW; Menai Bridge; Mounted Knights; Pirates; Play Set; Play-Sets; Playset; Rack Toys; Rowing Boat; S Webb and Son; Saracen Warriors; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Super Knights; Supertoy; Supertoy Pirates; Webbs; WST048; WST051;
The spurious shite includes an injection-moulded copy of the old Noah's ark props and a rock wall, but the boat and cannon are useful and make up for the village-pond-with-coral-reef play mat!

There is another pose (swordsman, seen in black plastic in the rack-toy round-up, last ITLAPD), but of interest to the blog is a new pose here, the lady. She looks like she might be being made to walk the plank as a victim of wicked pirates, but is in fact holding a pistol in the small of her back with the clear intention of giving someone a third eye or a hole in the heart - generous girl! And don't worry - plenty in the bag for ITLAPD this year!

Britains Deetail; Cannon; Carded Knight Set; Carded Pirate Set; Carded Toys; Deetail Knights; Deetail Turks; Dollar General; Dollar General Pirates; Gwynedd; Knights; Lady Pirate; Little Boat; Little Jolly Boat; LL59 5RW; Menai Bridge; Mounted Knights; Pirates; Play Set; Play-Sets; Playset; Rack Toys; Rowing Boat; S Webb and Son; Saracen Warriors; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Super Knights; Supertoy; Supertoy Pirates; Webbs; WST048; WST051;
The seller is offering these in threes should you be tempted; and with the knights each assortment differs, but each blister (set WST051) gets two identical riders, so you need multiples to complete the set.

Britains Deetail; Cannon; Carded Knight Set; Carded Pirate Set; Carded Toys; Deetail Knights; Deetail Turks; Dollar General; Dollar General Pirates; Gwynedd; Knights; Lady Pirate; Little Boat; Little Jolly Boat; LL59 5RW; Menai Bridge; Mounted Knights; Pirates; Play Set; Play-Sets; Playset; Rack Toys; Rowing Boat; S Webb and Son; Saracen Warriors; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Super Knights; Supertoy; Supertoy Pirates; Webbs; WST048; WST051;
No filler and lots of separate weapons make these very useful purchases, although the play mat is "...far out there man" . . . with Frisian cows, stud-fencing, nicely-trimmed hedges and dry-stone walls sharing space with a pterodactyl, veggie'saur, giraffe and lion, while a Napoleonic grenade appears to be stuck half-way up the cliff . . . or is the pterodactyl bombing the mud-river with rocks??!!!!

That's them - they're still out & about there somewhere!

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