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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.

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

T is for Two - Popular Personality Pencil Tops

All at sixes and nines this week, so things have slipped slightly, but I fired these off earlier tonight while shooting other stuff, intending to get them up here as a quickie, which I've done!

Tom & Jerry! They are the same size thought, unlike Marx's large size TV 'Tinykin' types, but still fun, sculpts don't quite capture them accurately either, which initially lead me to wonder if they might be unlicensed knock-offs, but they have the MGM mark, and there aren't so many Tom & Jerry items out there (now owned by Warner Bros.), therefore a nice addition to the oeuvre!
Tom & Jerry! They are the same size thought, unlike Marx's large size TV 'Tinykin' types, but still fun, sculpts don't quite capture them accurately either, which initially lead me to wonder if they might be unlicensed knock-offs, but they have the MGM mark, and there aren't so many Tom & Jerry items out there (now owned by Warner Bros.), therefore a nice addition to the oeuvre!

Turns out We saw a packeted set here!

These are knock-offs I think; there are Wizard and Punk Smurfs, but they don't look like these two, however plastic colour screams 'We're Smurfs; buy us if you like Smurfs', so we don't like, horrid little bootleg nasties - yah, boo, sucks to you, fake Smurfs!
These are knock-offs I think; there are Wizard and Punk Smurfs in Google results, but they don't look much like these two, however plastic colour screams 'We're Smurfs; buy us if you like Smurfs', so  . . . no; we don't like, horrid little bootleg nasties - yah, boo, sucks to you, fake Smurfs!

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