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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.

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

100 is for Real Little Dolls!

A follow-up to past posts, most notably this one from February '09, which looked at my two incomplete samples and a few oddities, tying them to the Euro-premiums, some of which some of them were pirated from!

100 Doll Co.; 100 Little Dolls; 50 Dolls with Clothes; Betterware; Comic Book Flats; Comic Book Giveaways; Comic Dolls; Exiting Fun; Flat Figures; Flats - Civilian; Giant Collection of Little Dolls with Clothes; Palmer Jones; Palmer Jones Co.; Plastic Flats; Premium Flats; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The 100 Dolls Co.;
From the archive are a couple of newspaper clippings, one is Dept. DL, which might be a clue to the Detroit Lakes Tribune being the carrier paublication? The other is a more generic PO Box number similar to those used with the comic-giveaway Ad's these 'dolls' also appeared in, but both came to me already trimmed

100 Doll Co.; 100 Little Dolls; 50 Dolls with Clothes; Betterware; Comic Book Flats; Comic Book Giveaways; Comic Dolls; Exiting Fun; Flat Figures; Flats - Civilian; Giant Collection of Little Dolls with Clothes; Palmer Jones; Palmer Jones Co.; Plastic Flats; Premium Flats; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The 100 Dolls Co.;
I played with the pictures and ended up with two usable images! I can't remember why I numbered them, there may be a missing list somewhere! But basically 1-10 are taken from the previously flagged European margarine-premium 'dancers' set, 11-20 seem to be taken from other sources too, 21-29 are more unique to the 'comic' set and 30 is the Santa I'm still missing!

100 Doll Co.; 100 Little Dolls; 50 Dolls with Clothes; Betterware; Comic Book Flats; Comic Book Giveaways; Comic Dolls; Exiting Fun; Flat Figures; Flats - Civilian; Giant Collection of Little Dolls with Clothes; Palmer Jones; Palmer Jones Co.; Plastic Flats; Premium Flats; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The 100 Dolls Co.;
Mentioned in the past, they came with a PVC/vinyl sticker set from which you were to fashion hats, skirts, shirts, collars, capes and bows - for the deer! Like a lot of old vinyl, they are sticky and shrinking now.

Now; I do have this set somewhere, but I'm not sure if these are my scans or someone else's off of that Wibbly Wobbly Way? If they are yours and you want me to remove them, let me know, it's not a problem, I'm just losing track of all the imagery on the dongles!

100 Doll Co.; 100 Little Dolls; 50 Dolls with Clothes; Betterware; Comic Book Flats; Comic Book Giveaways; Comic Dolls; Exiting Fun; Flat Figures; Flats - Civilian; Giant Collection of Little Dolls with Clothes; Palmer Jones; Palmer Jones Co.; Plastic Flats; Premium Flats; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The 100 Dolls Co.;
The missing Santa in the upper shot, and the Berserker doing some scaleing in the lower shot, all the figure images are courtesy of Brian Berke who sent them some time ago, well, about two years ago, it's a long queue now!

100 Doll Co.; 100 Little Dolls; 50 Dolls with Clothes; Betterware; Comic Book Flats; Comic Book Giveaways; Comic Dolls; Exiting Fun; Flat Figures; Flats - Civilian; Giant Collection of Little Dolls with Clothes; Palmer Jones; Palmer Jones Co.; Plastic Flats; Premium Flats; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The 100 Dolls Co.;
The same artwork being used in a rare branded Ad' for Palmer Jones, you can see why some people conflate these with the Giant-branded stuff - there's very little connection beween most comic-stuff and Giant, the exception being the 'board games' by Lucky Products and Helen of Toy, where some components are the same as those used by Giant of New York, World Toy House and others.

There is more on the sets in a brief entry on the A-Z blog here, while I looked at a few of Betterware's versions in this Blog's second ever post!

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