Which is really post number three of the lovely things Mr. Berke sent to the Blog for me to share. And we will start with the other mystery suprise, and again we need an ID on these new to hobby-collection-Blog figures!
Who are these lovely ladies? Approximately 54mm, and two being more realistic (on the left), two a little cartoony (right-hand pair), really loud colour, but from whence and whom have they come?
If they were found here, I would assume a kids comic/magazine, they all have something on them these days (forthcoming posts, but I don't watch them like I used to when Dr. Who Adventures was giving away figures regularly!), but they've come from America, and I don't know if they have the same type of kids magazine freebies . . . Interesting figures though, and totally new to me?
Basically we've got: Dancer Babe, Royal Babe (fairy-tales for the use of), Superbabe and Rock-Chick Babe!
Equally, loud colours for these MTC carded rack-toy party favours, and probably quite recent production as they are sub-copies of common sculpts doing the rounds and probably seen here before in more 'normal' greens and khakis, but I prefer these dudes!
In with the micro-smallies we looked at the other day, were a whole bunch of other kit figures and these are they, I won't say much as they are all going to need a major session at some point in the future, but I think the two astronauts (top right) are Revell (1:48th kit?), while the six dark greenies are old-school from the 1950's.
The sandy-coloured panzermann and girl might be Heller or Italeri, they both included interesting figures, suitable for dioramas in their kits? While the two white pilots (bottom right) might be Cylons or Earthmen from 1980's Sci-Fi kits?
I know, I should save them for Pirate day, but I feel donations should be fully covered, I used to do highlights but when everything is this good? And these are all interesting, the lower - black - figures (poor shot I'm afraid) are the Toy Major originals, and they look bigger that the various copies we seen so far (we may have seen one or two of these?), so a decent comparison article of the three or four sets will be a definite feature here one day, but they are all in storage at the moment, so it may be a while.
While the yellow line-up are the Imperial ones I've been after for ages now, reduced-size copies of the larger Hing Fat figures, these are from the two-adversary sets, we have seen here as shelfies before, possibly from Brian, and I've now tracked down the Police & Skeletons, Zombies & GI's (ex-Tim Mee GI's) and these Pirates fought red Ninjas which I may still be looking for?
The base mark.
Again, I can't thank Brian enough for all this, there are some real treasures here, as well as in the two previous lots, and I'm very grateful. I hope you've enjoyed them too, and if anyone ID's those heliotrope-pink figures in the first shot, they'll be doing better than the 'group experts' elsewhere!
The "pink ladies" remind me a bit of two sets of Mattel "Cuties" I bought at a motorway service station somewhere between Carlisle and London circa 1988.
ReplyDeleteI think there were five different sets of 10 in yellow boxes.
I only bought two "Lovey Doveys" and "Tiny Trendies". The other sets were too "cartonish". Each figure had a name based on a pun...so that a gymnast was Leah Tard and a ballet dancer was Tutu Much.
As an aside I stopped collecting between 2013 and earlier this year and my observation is that there are not as may Rack toys as there were.
Yes John, I think we have had a few on here, the 'rock chicks'?
ReplyDeleteA good place to track-down traditional rack toys is seaside kiosk type places, and the side streets of bigger cities still have independent/non-chain general stores/corner shops which often have a few? Party shops are either very good, or very bad, the one in Clapham has a whole section of them, the one in Farnborough has none at all, it depends on the mentality of the orderer/owner I think?
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Morning, Hugh.
ReplyDeleteThe two white Sci-Fi Astronauts in the bottom right corner that you mentioned, are Airfix (Likely MPC in the US) and are the crew figures from the kit made by Airfix for the Gerry Anderson series 'Starcruiser' (I might possibly have some in my spares boxes come to think of it)
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ReplyDeleteI meant to ad the unmade series by Gerry Anderson asit never went into production.
I suspected as much Steve, from posts elsewhere the next day, or so, I am being watched ever-so-closely by those who are almost out of ideas! But thanks, if it wasn't that it would have been the Cylon Raider, also in that early 1980's tranche of MPC-AMT-Ertl-Airfix kits!
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