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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.

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

B is to Boldly Go Where No Toy Has Gone Before!

I know. It's a hackneyed and clichéd title, which isn't even true, as by 1976 there had been many spaceship toys, but sometimes the obvious is good enough! I'll have to get all this stuff in the Tags too, won't I? If we're going to be full-on rivals, I'll have to get the playing field level, as soon as!
 

By way of a Brucey-Bonus, here's the NCC-1701, USS Enterpise, a 23rd Century Federation Constitution class starship, operated by Starfleet, and the first Federation starship to bear the name, previously used for planet-bound, surface navel vessels, of the United States!
 
As modelled by Dinky in 1976, little did they know what was barrelling its way down the space-tracks at them, with Kenner/Palitoy written all over their huge polypropylene arses, and less than a year away from this archaic plaything!

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