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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.

Monday, April 29, 2024

P is for Promotional

You don't see real premiums these days, most people now buy own-brand products which owe some of their cheapness to a lack of promotional gimmicks, and while I know people like Topps do the odd set of animals, or Smarties occasionally add figurals to their tube tops, it's not something which is common or everyday, and while I guess Blind Bags, have filled that niche (at a cost), it was interesting to find these . . . 

 
. . . in an Italian flyer type thing. My Italian being poor it seemed they are plain figures (rather than stampers or something), and you have to visit the store on or after the given dates to get the specific figure, and from the way the flyer was laid-out, I suspect the Italian equivalent of Aldi or Lidl? Anyway it appeared to be called Eurospin, and now we're all on the Internet, it didn't take long to find a set of six, with a previous or future set of another six?


And at 3.99, hardly a 'premium', rather a promotional! Thanks to Jan & Istfan for fetching the flyer back from Italy! And . . . Kung Fu Panda 4? I seem to have missed King Fu Panda 3 all together!

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