T is for Two - Alien Academic Accoutrements

Oh, we like a bit of novelty stationary and stuff here, whether it's WWI rulers from France, 'Erasersaurs', or pencil sharpeners, and in particular, recently, the KT-marked pencil sharpeners, and, related - very recently - the cake decoration astronaut, so we shouldn't be surprised to find more KT novelties . . . 

. . . even when they are a PVC-flat/Ethylene-cap combination, rather than the polystyrene of all the previous finds! Aren't they lovely? Over-sprayed with random blasts of transparent 'glass-paint' giving the soft vinyl a metallic sheen, the black cartoon outlines over-rolled.

 

Did they belong to cheap 'Biro's', or were the caps designed to be universal, they are a bit narrow for most writing implements, so the feeling is they were specific to something? But what? And are they 'Bots or humanoids . . . humanoid droids!

I present a new tongue-twister: A Human boy, called Floyd, annoyed a humanoid droid, named Boyd!

 

The clear K.T. mark, as seen on all previous examples with the distinct full-stops, and they are modelled after one type of cookie-cutter, with the detail raised as low walls on an otherwise flat slab of PVC. The googlie-eyes giving them a certain character, which paint, or raised black-lines wouldn't have!

 

We actually saw this guy (girl, hermaphrodite . . . insert crude joke about female couplings here, well, it's an Alien; it could be a polyp-reproducing hive-mind for all I know!) the other day on a comparison shot, but he obviously got shot a lot! A modern 'CHINA' pencil top, nothing else to say about him, out there still, probably, somewhere!

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31st Dec. 2023 - Shaun Hite over at Pod Stallions, quickly ID'd the pencil-tops as being characters from Robocon, a Japanese live-action 'Tokusatsu' children's TV comedy, from Toei, with the short fat chap being the eponymous and hapless Robocon, the silver one is his boss-creator/teacher-mentor called Gantsu Sensei I think, while the other might be RoboWaru? Images from a third party, if they are yours, and you want them removed, that's not a problem.

 

From the Mai Kee (MK (T)) catalogue, 1986, courtesy of Bill B

 

Shaun was looking for similar flats to his, and while they are the same as mine (flat yellow, black cartoon line 'walls', transparent red/green spray-wash patches), his are key-rings (with the same gold-anodised connecting ring) and represent characters from another set, possibly Anime, of the Transformer type, not Tokusatsu. So these tops were part of a larger line of items - note the sharks and dinosaurs.