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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 17, 2023

Q is for Question Time - Gymkhana Horse?

We've had this before I think, or one of them, the little Shetland pony from Britains for kiddies' gymkhanas, was copied by someone, in a nylon'y plastic, I'm guessing for some kind of Polly Pocket micro play-set compacts?

So, the simple question is, who? To which I suppose 'when?' can be a supplemental! There's no sign of the locating stud being attached, so it may be that no riders were involved, and the little piracies were background interest, as it were, but they're not that rare, so getting it ascribed should be easier than it's proved so far, and would be nice?

2 comments:

Hugh Walter said...

Thanks for trying John, the link didn't work, but I found the post, that's the New Ray set though, much bigger, I think we're looking for a pocket-toy of some kind?

H

Hugh Walter said...

John wrote;

"The Gymkhana Pony.
I think it was in a pretty good blister pack, marketed as Country Life.
It contained a female showjumper on horse back, three fences including a wall, two show ring "builders", a standing horse (grey spotty one) and the Shetland pony and a standing boy."