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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.

Thursday, January 5, 2023

H is for How they Come In - Peter III

Difficult one this as I wanted to get Peter's stuff out once I'd done Theo's and Chris's donations, but I still have a Sandown and a London show in the queue, which should go in that order, but these bits were given to me at the last, recent London Toy Soldier Show, so slightly out of sequence . . . like anyone but me cares about the order of posting!

Alien Baby; All The King's Men; Baby; Bauble Characters; Chicken; Circus Horse; Daisy Duck; Disney; Doll's House Accessories; Donald Duck; Figaro; French Foreign Legion; Frozen Horse; Goofy; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Humpty Dumpty; Jet-ski; jetski; King's Men; Mickey Mouse; Penguin Toy; Policeman; Santa Claus; Skeleton; skidoo; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Snowman; Timpo; Tomte Jeep; Tomte Laerdal Toys; Toy Soldier; Wrestlers;
It's alright! It's still twelfth-night, so we're OK for a bit of crimbo stuff; just! I thought these (upper shot) were a set of three we looked at a year or two ago from Poundland (I think), but they're not, they were all white with touches of black for eyes, these have a full three colour paint-job, with black, red and either flesh or orange, but also a trio and also poured resin, I don't have the brand/maker?

Below are two tree decorations who happen to be the two 'King's men' from a Humpty Dumpty set we will look at again soon. Not clear in this shot are the wire twists set into their backs with which they were attached to the Christmas tree branches.

Alien Baby; All The King's Men; Baby; Bauble Characters; Chicken; Circus Horse; Daisy Duck; Disney; Doll's House Accessories; Donald Duck; Figaro; French Foreign Legion; Frozen Horse; Goofy; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Humpty Dumpty; Jet-ski; jetski; King's Men; Mickey Mouse; Penguin Toy; Policeman; Santa Claus; Skeleton; skidoo; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Snowman; Timpo; Tomte Jeep; Tomte Laerdal Toys; Toy Soldier; Wrestlers;
That blue horse I mentioned a few days ago, he goes with one of the Kinder Frozen sets, next to him is a rather nice novelty skeleton, who actually comes in four parts for a bit of jiggle-action! Along with an Alien 'baby'!

Below them a Timpo FFL-clone and an assault jet-ski! Not sure if we've seen the jet-ski before, but if we have I don't think it had the steering-handle attached?

Alien Baby; All The King's Men; Baby; Bauble Characters; Chicken; Circus Horse; Daisy Duck; Disney; Doll's House Accessories; Donald Duck; Figaro; French Foreign Legion; Frozen Horse; Goofy; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Humpty Dumpty; Jet-ski; jetski; King's Men; Mickey Mouse; Penguin Toy; Policeman; Santa Claus; Skeleton; skidoo; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Snowman; Timpo; Tomte Jeep; Tomte Laerdal Toys; Toy Soldier; Wrestlers;
We've seen a mate of the policeman in a past post I think, I've certainly united them in the last few days, but his 'oppo' might be in one of many charity shop purchases who's photo's are all still in the long queue! Two wrestlers, a Tomte Laerdal jeep with air force types (well they have to be in that colour!) and a handful of useful bits.

Those bits including another of those ubiquitous 'toy town' guardsmen, ubiquitous in the 1990's novelty production industry that is! A Crescent circus horse-clone probably from Maysun, a baby and a clone of the Dinky (or Corgi?) construction vehicle driver.

I've realised, over the Christmas break, that as well as hospital sets, dolls houses and rack toys (baby bath-time type sets etc.), some of these 'odd' babies are actually from Nativity sets, where they get dumped naked in the manger or basket-passing-for-a-manger!

Alien Baby; All The King's Men; Baby; Bauble Characters; Chicken; Circus Horse; Daisy Duck; Disney; Doll's House Accessories; Donald Duck; Figaro; French Foreign Legion; Frozen Horse; Goofy; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Humpty Dumpty; Jet-ski; jetski; King's Men; Mickey Mouse; Penguin Toy; Policeman; Santa Claus; Skeleton; skidoo; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Snowman; Timpo; Tomte Jeep; Tomte Laerdal Toys; Toy Soldier; Wrestlers;
First two on the bottom row here (baby Daisy & Goofy) are Heimo/Bully/Dunby-Combex-Marx types, but the first upper pair are less clear; Donald has a large cavity in his back, and is probably from a die-cast Disney related vehicle of some kind - I have a book on them all somewhere, I'll see if it's in that. The Mickey soldier is a relief flat, possibly from a fridge-magnet, or a hair-clip?

While the two to the right of each row are more of a mystery, I think the upper might be the wolf from the Three Little Pigs story, but doesn't tie-in with Disney's; the hat's wrong? And below him is . . . Figaro? Not sure about the hat again, and the dungarees? So I wonder if they are from another cartoon altogether . . . anyone know who they are; maybe French or Italian kids TV characters?

Thanks as always to Peter for these, they all add to the whole!

4 comments:

Andy B said...

Think the fatter figure in the "King's Men" is either Tweedledum or Tweedledee from the Alice in Wonderland/Looking Glass books, possibly based on a Disney interpretation of the Tenniel drawing?

Hugh Walter said...

I know what you mean Andy, there's probably Disneykin influence, or a bit of 'crossover' but he's from a set of four, with a king and Humpty-D himself, who are coming to the blog any day now!

H

Jan Ferris said...

I like your blue man and jeep and the Disney figures are lovely. Would that be the whole bloddy set?

Hugh Walter said...

What the Disney's? God-no mate! There's hundreds of vinyl Disney figures around 40/50mm, but maybe commoner on the continent than here or the 'States, I have a few dozen, about half Marx/Combex years and half Euro-rubber!

There's a very good guide to them which went to a few editions in the 1990's before splitting into multiple volumes called Comicfiguren Preiskatalog which has most of them in it. A rival with a similar history is Comic Preiskatalog.

H