Guest Spot: The Pride and the Passion
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About Me
- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- 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!
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!
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.
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.
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