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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.

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

F is for Follow-up - Phidel Busy Princesses!

The stream of Phidal has rather run to a trickle, in part because both WHSmith and TKMaxx seem to have stopped carrying them, but the website's still up and running with new titles, there's a Minions one I'm going to keep an eye out for, along with a Disney Raya set which looks like it will have useful figures, including Asian ner'do'wells of the Sumurai or PotC pirate type?

Ariel; Belle; Busy Books; Cinderella; Disney Princess; Disney Princess Great Adventures; Disney Princesses; Jasmin; Merida; Mulan; My Busy Book; Phidal Publishing; Phidal Toy Story; Pocahontas; Rapunzel; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Snow White; Tiana;
Anyway picked this up complete for a quid in a charity shop the other day, we've seen some of the contents in one of  the two previous 'Princesses' set, although this has a different mix with all ten of the contents being princesses, but the  old 'standards' are all present. "3 years and up" - I think that covers me!

Ariel; Belle; Busy Books; Cinderella; Disney Princess; Disney Princess Great Adventures; Disney Princesses; Jasmin; Merida; Mulan; My Busy Book; Phidal Publishing; Phidal Toy Story; Pocahontas; Rapunzel; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Snow White; Tiana;
From top left to bottom right we have; Cinderella, Tiana, Merida (seen here in a mixed lot, and as a different sculpt in her own set, recently), Snow White, Belle, Rapunzel, Mulan, Ariel, Jasmine and Pocahontas, and as I've pointed out before, some of these will paint-up nicely for Napoleonic ballrooms, Wild West saloons, Plantation House garden-parties and etcetera.

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