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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, February 19, 2022

H is for How They Come In - Cheap Deals

This post deals with stuff I picked-up while out and about last April-May, or at least that's when I shot the photographs, sometimes things get shot same the day sometimes they don't, nor do they always get photographed in the order they came in, so March may be the start-date of this little lot, but it hardly matters!

Alice In Wonderland; Asda Dinosaurs; Big hero 6; Cat Pen; Deer; Disney; Erasasaurs; Eraser Dinosaurs; Flying Tiger; Hobbycraft Stores; Jada Nano; Lilo & Stitch; Lizards; Micky & Minnie Mouse; Monsters Inc.; Moose; Muppets; Nano Metalfigures; Novelty Cats; Novelty Dinosaurs; Novelty Pens; Pixar Productions; Scrooge McDuck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Incredibles 2; Tiger Stores;
This must have been a previous (2020) Christmas range, on clearance, from the same Hobbycraft decoration line we've looked at here recently from the year just gone (2021), which are themselves now on clearance! Not the best sculpt, it seems to be channeling at least two species, but what do I know, the cake-decoration deer have their own box (there's so many of them) and he'll add to that 'archive'!

Alice In Wonderland; Asda Dinosaurs; Big hero 6; Cat Pen; Deer; Disney; Erasasaurs; Eraser Dinosaurs; Flying Tiger; Hobbycraft Stores; Jada Nano; Lilo & Stitch; Lizards; Micky & Minnie Mouse; Monsters Inc.; Moose; Muppets; Nano Metalfigures; Novelty Cats; Novelty Dinosaurs; Novelty Pens; Pixar Productions; Scrooge McDuck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Incredibles 2; Tiger Stores;
Erasersaurs, we may have seen them before as another iteration; I haven't checked, but, even if we have, they may be new colours. There is a post on Dinorasers in the long-queue, but these aren't in it?!! Asda supermarkets, and close-enough to the now ended Walmart ownership for them to possibly be findable over the pond in that establishment, but probably not now?

Alice In Wonderland; Asda Dinosaurs; Big hero 6; Cat Pen; Deer; Disney; Erasasaurs; Eraser Dinosaurs; Flying Tiger; Hobbycraft Stores; Jada Nano; Lilo & Stitch; Lizards; Micky & Minnie Mouse; Monsters Inc.; Moose; Muppets; Nano Metalfigures; Novelty Cats; Novelty Dinosaurs; Novelty Pens; Pixar Productions; Scrooge McDuck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Incredibles 2; Tiger Stores;
This was 20p in Paperchase! They had a table with tons of stuff, most of it one-offs, some of it quite dusty and had obviously had a serious five- or ten-year stock take and cleared out the forgotten corners, and 'behind the shelves' areas of the storeroom? You can see from the chunky pen that it's a largish beast and had a lovely metallic decoration. 'Bronty' the Biro!

Alice In Wonderland; Asda Dinosaurs; Big hero 6; Cat Pen; Deer; Disney; Erasasaurs; Eraser Dinosaurs; Flying Tiger; Hobbycraft Stores; Jada Nano; Lilo & Stitch; Lizards; Micky & Minnie Mouse; Monsters Inc.; Moose; Muppets; Nano Metalfigures; Novelty Cats; Novelty Dinosaurs; Novelty Pens; Pixar Productions; Scrooge McDuck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Incredibles 2; Tiger Stores;
This was in the same Paperchase pile, and also the only one, missing it's cap and not something I would normally give house room to, but A) it's cats! B) I had, only a few days earlier, split the cats, dogs and elephants into their own tubs, and C) 20p!! Soft-foam calico cats with a Biro up their arses!

Alice In Wonderland; Asda Dinosaurs; Big hero 6; Cat Pen; Deer; Disney; Erasasaurs; Eraser Dinosaurs; Flying Tiger; Hobbycraft Stores; Jada Nano; Lilo & Stitch; Lizards; Micky & Minnie Mouse; Monsters Inc.; Moose; Muppets; Nano Metalfigures; Novelty Cats; Novelty Dinosaurs; Novelty Pens; Pixar Productions; Scrooge McDuck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Incredibles 2; Tiger Stores;
Flying Tiger gave up this for a quid, the same day I think? It was my first trip to Basingrad since before lockdown (a year or so?) and is just for the archive, to ID in the future, to box-tick the brand and items, fun, silicon 'rubber jigglers' in the old-school style.

Alice In Wonderland; Asda Dinosaurs; Big hero 6; Cat Pen; Deer; Disney; Erasasaurs; Eraser Dinosaurs; Flying Tiger; Hobbycraft Stores; Jada Nano; Lilo & Stitch; Lizards; Micky & Minnie Mouse; Monsters Inc.; Moose; Muppets; Nano Metalfigures; Novelty Cats; Novelty Dinosaurs; Novelty Pens; Pixar Productions; Scrooge McDuck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Incredibles 2; Tiger Stores;
These were on clearance at TKMaxx, and you know by know I really like these, the . . . start again; We are about to look at three of these sets of Nano-Metal's from Jada, two of which (probably these two) were on clearance at TKMaxx, the other - I think - came in a few days later, either from eBay or Asda stores? But . . . it may have been a donation and because the amount of stuff which has joined the long-queue in the last 14-odd months is vast, I'm not 100% sure on the history of these now! So I'll thank the two obvious candidates - Brian Berke or Peter Evans - for everything they do for the Blog, and carry on as if they were three similar retail/clearance purchases a few days apart, nearly a year ago!

Alice In Wonderland; Asda Dinosaurs; Big hero 6; Cat Pen; Deer; Disney; Erasasaurs; Eraser Dinosaurs; Flying Tiger; Hobbycraft Stores; Jada Nano; Lilo & Stitch; Lizards; Micky & Minnie Mouse; Monsters Inc.; Moose; Muppets; Nano Metalfigures; Novelty Cats; Novelty Dinosaurs; Novelty Pens; Pixar Productions; Scrooge McDuck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Incredibles 2; Tiger Stores;
The first set (above) was a straight tie-in with the Incredibles movie, or at least Incredibles 2 which I haven't seen, but I thought the first one was fun and they have that lovely metallic paint which makes this range so lush, while there is a duplicate pose in the second set which is a sort of Disney 'starter' set with figures ancient ('classics') and modern (Pixar joint-productions).

I don't know who Baymax is (actually I've just Goggled him! Big Hero 6, which had totally escaped me?), but there are characters here from seven franchises, with pairs from Monsters Inc., and The Muppets.

Alice In Wonderland; Asda Dinosaurs; Big hero 6; Cat Pen; Deer; Disney; Erasasaurs; Eraser Dinosaurs; Flying Tiger; Hobbycraft Stores; Jada Nano; Lilo & Stitch; Lizards; Micky & Minnie Mouse; Monsters Inc.; Moose; Muppets; Nano Metalfigures; Novelty Cats; Novelty Dinosaurs; Novelty Pens; Pixar Productions; Scrooge McDuck; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Incredibles 2; Tiger Stores;
The one I'm not so sure about, I think it was reduced in Asda, but . . . which definitely came in a week or two after the other two sets and, again, another 'starter' set to get you wanting more Disney "100% diecast" Nano Metal's, with a lovely pair from Alice in Wonderland, two Scrooge McDuck characters and little Lilo.

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