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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 - Divers

Brian also sent me some diver stuff to follow-on from the recent post on that subject and I gained a few more the other day, almost by accident!

Bonkers Divers; Follow-up - Divers; Lik Be (LB) Cake Decorations; Lone Star Divers; Ryan's World; Cake Decoration; Deep Divers; Deep Sea Diver; Deep Sea Divers; Diver Cake Decoration Figure; Diver Figure; Diver Figures; Diver Figurine; Diver Figurines; Divers; Scuba Divers; Skindivers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
We've seen Brian's self display before (in another diver 'follow-up' post I think!), but there are new faces in the line-up; at that time it was the three whitish ones in the back row, they have been joined by two Lik Be (LB) cake decorations (they had a carded issue or two as well!) in red, a nice figure in front (metal?) and the larger chap at the back.

Cap'n Pugwash is still keeping an eye on his increasing motley crew!

Bonkers Divers; Follow-up - Divers; Lik Be (LB) Cake Decorations; Lone Star Divers; Ryan's World; Cake Decoration; Deep Divers; Deep Sea Diver; Deep Sea Divers; Diver Cake Decoration Figure; Diver Figure; Diver Figures; Diver Figurine; Diver Figurines; Divers; Scuba Divers; Skindivers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Brian has actually found two of them, and using the stuff on the feet found them to be by Bonkers for the Ryan's World franchise. Brian reports the figures are solid with no movable parts which somewhat restricts play?

Bonkers Divers; Follow-up - Divers; Lik Be (LB) Cake Decorations; Lone Star Divers; Ryan's World; Cake Decoration; Deep Divers; Deep Sea Diver; Deep Sea Divers; Diver Cake Decoration Figure; Diver Figure; Diver Figures; Diver Figurine; Diver Figurines; Divers; Scuba Divers; Skindivers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
I have seen the gift eggs in various supermarkets and other outlets, and had even got as far as working out there are different themes to the different trays/counter boxes (boys, Girls etc . . . ), but the graphics are too 'busy' to work out if there's anything useful to us in which tray's eggs, so I've ♫ . . . walked on down the hall ♪♪!

Clearly they are worth a shufftie, and if anyone can enlighten us further, that would be grand. The Ryan's World 'phenomena' is best explained by Wikipedia for those who haven't encountered it.

Bonkers Divers; Follow-up - Divers; Lik Be (LB) Cake Decorations; Lone Star Divers; Ryan's World; Cake Decoration; Deep Divers; Deep Sea Diver; Deep Sea Divers; Diver Cake Decoration Figure; Diver Figure; Diver Figures; Diver Figurine; Diver Figurines; Divers; Scuba Divers; Skindivers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
In the meantime these turned up the other day in a lot I'd bid on for something else, and to be honest I hadn't really registered them in the evilBay images beyond maybe clocking them as 'better' or earlier Hong Kong copy stuff, but actually they are quite good paint Lone Star survivors and will need comparing with my 'master' sample, which we have seen before. Although I think most of mine are the James Bond orange ones, so these may be a very useful surprise?

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