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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.

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Z is for Zambia, Zaire, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe and . . . Zululand!

Mostly reissues, but it happens that the one pose I'm missing in the reissue set, happens to have turned up as an original, twice, is that coincidence or synergy. I never know the difference!

MPC African Warriors, colloquially referred to as the 'Zulus' and sold as/in various African jungle/safari/native sets. Eight poses, I'm not sure who handled the reissues, was it Mandrill, or did they only do the Marx reissues?
 
They are a bit tall and thin, but I like them, and with African warriors being one of the less visited corners of the figure-world by toy makers, it's nice to have them existing at all! If I ever feel rich enough, I'll try to get them all in gold, as I think they look really nice . . . Almost Rubenstein'y!


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