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.
Monday, September 19, 2022
S is for Scammers!
We saw one of these figures last year and I thought
I'd try and get a full set for this year, and while there have been several on
evilBay, they were either honestly claiming to have no figures and/or
accessories, or two damn expensive! However I did find one which was both
reasonable and 'appeared' to be complete . . . you know the rest Readers! But,
more plaster-of-Paris in the stash!
Anyway, it was far too heavy to send back
economically (what the seller was counting on!), so I scanned the box, archived
the instruction sheet and took his pathetic excuses in exchange for a neutral
feedback! If it had been more obvious he would have got a 'red', I like to give
out two or three of those a year!
Anyway . . . to help you ID them in mixed
or loose lots (how I will do it now; slowly!), here they are, and they are nice
sculpts, although they are in two colours on the box, I've only ever seen them
in silver?
The accessories may help you ID a mixed lot
where the figures are buried under army-men, or mixed-in with the similar Redbox and Toy Major-Toysmith ones! That's it; 4M Brick'N'Build Pirate Fortress, half box-ticked, or box half-ticked!
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