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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.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

P is for Peterkin - 1 of 4 - Toy Fair '23

Seems to have been all the 'P's this month, sometimes that how the cookie crumbles! A quick look at Peterkin, who were founded in the 1950's as W.J.Brown (Toys) Ltd., and changed their name to Peterkin in 1995, probably at the changing of the generations (?), and who have managed to get their Tag in the list four times so far, mostly for younger kid's toys.



 
 
We actually looked at these in the Supreme mini-season, back in '22 where they were generics off of that Amazon, after previously being under the Toy Major label, currently here in Peterkin packaging, and the best way to get them if you haven't yet, as you get both foot and mounted with siege engines, along with two dragons and a tower.
 

While there was also a dinosaur set on display with a mix of larger, decorated models, and smaller 'monobloc' types in brighter-coloured plastics. I know where you can get these in the Central Southeast (forthcoming post), but they should be findable on-line, as everything is on-line . . . Somewhere!

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