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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, August 9, 2022

B is for Blackrock Castle . . . Again, Again!

Except that this one is Black (wait for it) Rock! The Blackrock's all having four walls and the larger one's; a Keep, this one is open, and more of a relief-structure, or a backdrop to the mêlée. Simba did actually carry several sizes of the other Blackrocks too. I'll tag it without the gap, just to keep the tag-list tight.

Black Rock Castle; Black Rock Knights; Knight In Armour; Knights Fort; Simba Castle; Simba Dickie Group; Simba Fort; Simba Group; Simba Knights; Simba Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SP Castle; SP Knights; SP Knights Fort; SP Toys; Supreme; Supreme Castle; Supreme Knights Fort; Supreme Toys; Supreme-SP; Toy Major; Toy Major Black Rock Castle; Toy Major Fort; Toy Major Knights;
The box is very poor, which has rather curtailed the shots that are usable with this one, but with everything being pulled together in the last post in the sequence, it is enough for a box-ticker.

You can see the parallels with the previous Blackrocks in the spray-decoration, and the six figures give enough play value, but there's no hind of extra 'stuff' as there is with the Army Base play-set (previous / 'older post').

Black Rock Castle; Black Rock Knights; Knight In Armour; Knights Fort; Simba Castle; Simba Dickie Group; Simba Fort; Simba Group; Simba Knights; Simba Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SP Castle; SP Knights; SP Knights Fort; SP Toys; Supreme; Supreme Castle; Supreme Knights Fort; Supreme Toys; Supreme-SP; Toy Major; Toy Major Black Rock Castle; Toy Major Fort; Toy Major Knights;
The other two sides which could be brought-back to something like their original colours with a  bit of tweeking in Picasa - five foot and one mounted, three and tree silver/black, two ladders and the fort, it is what it is; a cheap play-set for corner shops and service stations at Christmas-time!

Black Rock Castle; Black Rock Knights; Knight In Armour; Knights Fort; Simba Castle; Simba Dickie Group; Simba Fort; Simba Group; Simba Knights; Simba Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SP Castle; SP Knights; SP Knights Fort; SP Toys; Supreme; Supreme Castle; Supreme Knights Fort; Supreme Toys; Supreme-SP; Toy Major; Toy Major Black Rock Castle; Toy Major Fort; Toy Major Knights;
15 parts, plus stickers; in fact two of the flags are pre-stickered and part of the upper, figure display, as I've not opened the set I don't know if they've been taken off the sticker sheet, or if the sticker sheet is only laid-out for the others, a minor detail of little consequence, but I will do a box-opening on this one at some point in the future.

Black Rock Castle; Black Rock Knights; Knight In Armour; Knights Fort; Simba Castle; Simba Dickie Group; Simba Fort; Simba Group; Simba Knights; Simba Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SP Castle; SP Knights; SP Knights Fort; SP Toys; Supreme; Supreme Castle; Supreme Knights Fort; Supreme Toys; Supreme-SP; Toy Major; Toy Major Black Rock Castle; Toy Major Fort; Toy Major Knights;
In checking the Supreme tag, for preparing these posts, I've found we looked at this set years ago, right back at the start of the blog, so I must have shot it before, ages ago!

Standard variations of the standard Supreme range with the 'standard' Greco-Roman archer! Enough for a little mêlée in front of the 'castle' back-drop, or to send a few guys up a ladder to take a wall, or die trying!

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