H is for How They Come In - London, March, Sc-fi, Fanatsy, Cartoon & TV/Movie Figures

Continuing with the London show plunder, and it's the fictional stuff tonight, slipped over midnight somehow, but I'm a bit bleure this evening, and I don't know if it's a head-cold or overdoing it in the garden and getting a lungful of pollen?!!

Kinder first! We saw my sample of these a while ago now, but several more complete or not so complete have since come-in via Chris, Peter and my own purchases, and I picked these up for a song in London.

 

There's even a spare boot, the sort of bit that's often missing, and while there are only two complete figures (and one of them has the wrong helmet I think), it's about the fun of trying to get four of each boot/helmet/belt-backpack in each of three colours on three or four colours of figure, a relatively unattainable goal unless you're a dedicated Kinder collector!

 

We looked at my small fleet of these not that long ago, but this is a colour variation, with all three landing feet intact, so it came home with me, it's one of the tropes of Kinder to issue the same toy in different or - sometimes - opposite colour-ways.

While this is becoming a bug-bear, I've posted one before I think, shot a few for somewhere else, then had a couple more come in, re-shot them, then this chap turns up and has to go here (ocd rules!), so the rest are on hold again, but by the time I remember them, it'll be time to unify everything and shoot them again . . . properly! Kinder fantasy barbarian in loin-cloth and para' jump-boots!

 

I think these are Esso premiums, and while they are claimed by French collectors, there must have been a UK issue (or issues) as we had some when we were kids, one of my favourite toys going back to when my memories begin is the hedgehog from the woodland animal set.

 

Here we have two cartoony ones on the outside, and two Disney characters from the Jungle Book in the centre, but there were other sets, including the aforementioned wildlife, dinosaurs, Babar the Elephant &etc. They can be described as erasers, but are in fact a silicon-rubber which just smears pencil!

Aaaaaaannnnnnd, we confirm a solving of a mystery! Returning immediately to The Jungle Book, and here's some more painted ones, so anyone whose been following this micro-saga since the sad news of David Pomeroy's passing and the stuff I managed to save, will see this is the evidence that while one of the snakes was a pre-production design, and some of the plastic colours may have been experimental, there are commercial ones out there, as this is the second source/lot to come in along with the Tiger which turned-up so fortuitously and soon after the initial bag of workshop bits.

 

Not only that, but this Mowgli is the fourth I've seen and possibly the third I have, not put with the others [yet] as the other two came in as 'Maybe Marx', years before! And the fact that he has a separate, glued-on, clear base would have kept them separate if this lot hadn't appeared! 

And this might be Disney, might be branded, but I've forgotten even if it's hard plastic or PVC! And it's gone away now; so it'll have to be properly Blogged another day? Obviously a cartoon cat in the style of Marx, or early Heimo, Comic's Spain or similar?

These are current Kinder, and obviously from the recent Avatar II movie, being the two leading characters, I watched a sort of speeded-up highlights/précis thing on YouTube the other day and now don't have a burning need to watch the film, as I know what happens!

Don't know if it's a full set, but I picked-up a few more at the PW show, which are all duplicates I think? And the bottom row here are all second views, so there's only eight sculpts present; two humanoids (previous shot), three sea-monsters (top) and three flyers (middle) with printed fabric wings.