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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.

Sunday, May 30, 2021

L is for l'Hommes de Lune

I was going to post these a few weeks ago, but realised I didn't have one of the poses! Bonux washing-powder premium, astronauts, I think [someone said] they are based on someone else's sculpts, but can't seem to find out whose?

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The missing chap, I did have him, but with all his thin bits broken or chewed-off! Fortunate happenstance or synergies lead to Moonbase Central posting a picture of a guy wearing something similar the other day and it's obviously meant to be some kind of jet-pack as rendered by space/sci-fi artist Robert 'Bob' McCall - original hanging in the University of Arizona.

As you can see they are biggish at 70-mil with base, but manage to enhance the LB figures out of Hong Kong, having similar, figure-hugging X-craft/Gemini space suits, rather than the chunkier stuff we've since found you actually need to wear; to go into space in!

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The other nine poses, a decent number of 'ray-guns' are distributed among them, but there's also a lot equipment being moved about, and one chap has taken his helmet off (or never bothered to put it on!), and all poses were available in black and silver, in what's quite a soft polyethylene.

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"What do you mean 'nobody's brought the machine that goes *ping*'? We're surrounded on three sides by brain-sucking alien reavers who eat humans for breakfast and all we've got is a 'good luck' ray-gun made by my six-year-old from a toilet-roll to conform with launch-weight restrictions . . . brilliant!"

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Yeah, well, I was so pleased to track him down, I rather over-shot him as a result!

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Herding Zombies . . . it turns out they are quite docile after they've had a whole pack of Tunnock's Caramel Wafers each! Zombie figures from the now defunct Box O'Zombies/MyGeekyGoodness (MGG) dot-coms.

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Yeah! He got a .gif as well!

That's Bonux astronauts; box ticked!

6 comments:

Andy B said...

Do wonder if that's a camera, rather than a gun?

Hugh Walter said...

The Jet guy? . . . Yes Andy, and the chap on the far right of the top row (same item), while the bloke middle-bottom seems to have a cine-camera, so only two actual 'ray guns'; top first left and middle on the top row.

H

crazypat said...

hello the brand you are looking for is not "jecsan"? they made astronauts which resemble those of the brand "bonux"

bonjour la marque que vous cherchez ce n'est pas "jecsan" ? ils ont fait des astronauts qui ressemblent a ceux de la marque "bonux"

Hugh Walter said...

Thanks Crazypat, I had an idea the originals might be Spanish or Portuguese, but wasn't sure enough to say so!

H

crazypat said...

You're welcome, you also have questions about a Spanish guard rider it's a "teixdo"

de rien , vous avez aussi des questions sur un cavalier garde espanole c 'est un "teixdo"

crazypat said...

ok thank's