It only seems like the other day I cleared
the Phidal out of the queue, but actually it was January, with a quick touch in
April, both a while ago, and while I was bemoaning the apparent dropping of
them by TKMaxx (my main source), they had two sets in stock the other day and I
grabbed both.
This was actually the second, I was only
there to sort out a car battery nearby, and popped in to have a look, purchasing the one we'll look at next, and wondering if this was the one I
already had. So I memorised the figures and went home to check the set
already published here, they were different and as I'd known I'd be back on
the battery, got this at the same time a couple of days later!We have all the rabbits again, Peter (left),
Benjamin Bunny (right) with Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail (I have no idea if they are
in name order and there are no clues on the figures or in the text!
Benjamin is wearing his Tam-o'-shanter . .
. when we were kids we had the wooden Victory puzzle of that original painting
by Beatrix Potter, and because in one of the stories Mr. McGregor throws a
marrow at one of the rabbits, I thought, for years; he was wearing a marrow on
his head!
Only ten figures again; which seems to be
the trend now (cost of living crisis etc . . . ), but if it keeps them at 5.99
(an eminently acceptable 'rack-toy' price), I'm not going to whinge too loudly!
Tom Kitten replaces the three missing figures of the odd cockerel, Brock
and Pigling Bland seen in the first set, with the other four - Squirrel Nutkin,
Jemima Puddleduck, Mr Tod (The Sandy Whiskered Gentleman) and Mrs. Tiggywinkle -
getting a reprise. I would had that the Nutkin is quite a realistic sculpt, but
he was one of the less anthropomorphised originally, and I thought the Mr. Tod character
sculpt was a poor sculpt.
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