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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.

Sunday, December 3, 2023

F is for Follow-up - Space Man

Just a quickie, as we've had several looks at developments in Lik Be's space-toy lines this year already, but I wanted to compare Jon Attwood's donation to the Blog, with the real McCoy as it were, and here are those shots!

Direct comparison with a late Culpitt's one (1990's), the shininess of the larger/original version belies the fact that I have 'brushed-aluminium' versions of LB's finest too! The base of the smaller one is similar to those polyethylene pastel or primary-coloured ones which turn-up quite often, but the fact that the new addition is also hard polystyrene plastic means you can't rule-out a closer relationship?
 
With various others that happen to be here rather than in storage!
Thanks Jon, a real treat.

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