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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.

Friday, May 6, 2022

F is for Follow-up - Hing Fat Egyptian Relics

I said - when I showed the Hing Fat bits Peter Evans sent to the blog - that I'd do a comparison with the similar sets from Safari and K&M/Wild Republic at some point in the future, well, by chance I had to wizz the relevant 'Ancients' box back to the house for a couple of hours on Tuesday, so this is that - brief - comparison!

Bastet; Cat God; Egyptian Deities; Egyptian Gods; Egyptian Model Figures; Egyptian Mummies; Egyptian Mummy; Egyptian Toob; Egyptian Toy Figures; Gift Shop Novelty; Hing Fat; Hing Fat Egyptians; K&M; K&M Egyptians; K&M Figures; K&M Rack Toy; Museum Keepsake; Rack Toys; Resin Sphinx; Safari; Safari Egyptians; Safari Ltd.; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sphinx;
The main elements, Hing Fat's on the left, both Safari sets in the middle and the K&M stuff off to the right with a Pharaoh's head variation I'd forgotten, All three sets are clearly aimed at both museum/heritage gift shops and middle-school project work more than actual playthings, but they are fun - and all the Mummies are figurals!

Bastet; Cat God; Egyptian Deities; Egyptian Gods; Egyptian Model Figures; Egyptian Mummies; Egyptian Mummy; Egyptian Toob; Egyptian Toy Figures; Gift Shop Novelty; Hing Fat; Hing Fat Egyptians; K&M; K&M Egyptians; K&M Figures; K&M Rack Toy; Museum Keepsake; Rack Toys; Resin Sphinx; Safari; Safari Egyptians; Safari Ltd.; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sphinx;
The semi realistic Safari Bastet statue sculpt, flanked by two slightly dog-like offerings from Hing Fat, the Hing Fat all come in a gold finish and a salmon-pink which is probably trying to be/represent a bare stone-effect?

Bastet; Cat God; Egyptian Deities; Egyptian Gods; Egyptian Model Figures; Egyptian Mummies; Egyptian Mummy; Egyptian Toob; Egyptian Toy Figures; Gift Shop Novelty; Hing Fat; Hing Fat Egyptians; K&M; K&M Egyptians; K&M Figures; K&M Rack Toy; Museum Keepsake; Rack Toys; Resin Sphinx; Safari; Safari Egyptians; Safari Ltd.; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sphinx;
Typically, the Atlantic 'styrene one is well-lost in the storage unit, so we'll have to do this line-up again, but we have three resin's, one with a rams head, all showing/sculpted as- a presumed 'how they were',  then the Safari and K&M both showing it as how it is now, with broken nose and severely damaged/eroded lower region and finally a rather stylised one from Hing Fat with a chubby sit-up-and-beg countenance, again more fanciful of what was rather than what it.

While the Safari/K&M stuff is PVC, Hing Fat's are a dense polyethylene or polypropylene, and many thanks to Peter for the Hing Fat sample.

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