P is for Plastic Pods for Prehistoric Plodders

From the 'We buy buy this shit so you don't have to' departmennt, comes news of two new capsule toys, both currently findable in The Works, where pocket money means prizes!

These were odd, they weren't in their own stock-box, but were sharing the box of the capsule below, and contents varied from polypropylene fold-up dinosaur 'balls' to these, where I could easily see one had two dino's the other a skeleton dino' plus accessories. Branded to The Works with a simple sticker, they are clearly otherwise a generic with no true maker's mark available.

Another minor difference was that the skeleton had a dry-brush weathered rocky-outcrop, while the pair's was undecorated plastic. I couldn't work out why they both had a little spigot and thought they may be scenic items left-over from another toy, but realised they received the section of plastic-plant fish-tank water-weed frond; to make a tree-fern!

There were others, and while I didn't look at all of them (so don't know how much of an aberation the pair is, or the undecorated piece, I quickly chose these, as they are three versions of Stegosaurus - the green and 'bone' being the same sculpt, the blue a different species with more 'boards'! And the transparent eggs mean you CAN choose what you get for your £2.

These were branded, to an Undercover / Under Cover of Nuremberg, Germany, and were frankly disappointing, especially for a German product, you expect some Asian-import warehouse off a tired industrial estate in Shefield or somewhere to churn-out shite contents, however you tend to expect more of the Germans . . .

. . . but I think this is a bit naff! A mini-sheet of micro-stickers, three tiny pictures and three half-size, wax crayons - we buy this shit so you don't have to! 'Blind Bags' it's a crap concept really; guaranteed to do unnecessary damage to the planet!