Not really rack toys per se, but in the same pocket money bracket, so acceptable in Rack
Toy Month, I think, and it's a while since we had bendies, despite a shed-load of
them a few years back, and this is another post which quickly went from 1 collage to
six images in about five minutes!
This came-in back in January I think? I've
totally lost the plot this year on most things everything! Schleich bendy astro-spaceman type and he was going to be a
stand-alone post, but then I remembered I had some wild west in the big folder
who have been there for ages, as I keep forgetting what's in there!
Unmarked they might be Hong Kong, but I
have a feeling someone said they were Italian? It may be that the Italians also
got them from Hong Kong, as these were in a pick-box in a newsagents' back at
the start of the Blog, so not that old, but old stock!
From behind; they are smaller too at about
54mm-compatable, to the Schleich's
70/80-odd (I didn't think to measure any of them - Doh!) and a softer PVC than
most bendy-toys.
Thinking there might be some more [bendies]
I started going through the 800-odd toy folders and found these in the ''Brain
2016-17'' folder . . . whoops! So Mr Berke must have sent these during the main
period of Bendy Posts, but somehow they got lost . . . by moi! I think we did look at some Brain-provided bendies at the
time, and he definitely sent a NJ Croce
figure or two to the Blog which got posted, but anyway . . . sorry Brian (Brian
knows how much other stuff is in his folders, but it will all appear here,
eventually!).
Loony
Tunes bendies - how cool are they!
I then finally realised I'd purchased these
back in Jan/Feb sometime, probably about the same time as the Schliech? When I tried to clear 2021 by shoving
a load of posts back to 2004, I'd left the spaceman in 2021, so there were two
stand alone posts, eight forgotten Cowboys & Indians and the lost Loony Tunes
in two different areas of the Picasa index and four folders! What am I like?
"I dub thee;
Sir Bent Bendie the Bender, of Bendsville, Bendsylvannia,
go forth and flex thyself!"
I think I bought them from a seller in
France, thinking they might be Brabo, but they are just marked 'made in Hong
Kong' on their back legs, but minty-fresh, or NOS as some put it! And possibly
there might be more musketeers in the full set . . . and a Richelieu?
It's also worth noting that the above
caption would have been considered inappropriate 30 or 40-years ago, but I'm
pleased to say we've come far enough in our liberal tolerances that I don't
think anyone uses the word in its negative connotation anymore?
So that's them then, 15 more bendies for
the 'Bendy-toys' tag! I was in TK Maxx
the other day and they didn't have any NJ
Croce stuff, but they tend to get them in for Christmas, so I'll keep my
eye out for them later in the year.
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