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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.

Thursday, June 9, 2022

F is for Follow-up - Babes in Toy Soldier Land!

A quick follow-up to this post on the Wilton copies of Marx's Disney figures, I found the two Marx I have!

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Private's Chivalrous or Courageous were the names for the two - identical - drummers, with no packaging I'll call him Fred! You can see (left of each shot) he's a tad bigger and slightly better detailed; in both etching and painting, while the Wilton drummer has a fat head!

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Marx did a forth pose which wasn't pirated by Wilton, to my knowledge; dubbed Valiant or Hooligan! I'll call him Bob! They - the Marx originals were sold individually in sentry-box shaped cartons with their names, or in various window-box combinations of three figures, nameless.

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Marx also reduced them for their 'Disneykin' range of Miniature Masterpieces, where the four got a window box, I don't know if they ever got the separate, single-figure Disneykin boxes, I suspect not. The forth sentry pose, here damaged in a feeBay screen-shot, seems to have been re-designed for the small scale iteration.

Original copy and images published by & (C) - Hugh Walter at 2:40 PM
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