T is for Two BJ's!

Hey, it was bound to happen one day! Nearly halfway through Rack Toy month and this may be as good as it gets! Driving round Surry Hills and Hampshire Villages (God's own real country), I get to visit a lot of the corner shops, where there is mostly disappointment these days!

 

Those which haven't been taken over by the big-six's 'local' outlets are either in smaller chains or have done supply deals with one of the big six (Tesco seems to be in a lot), and few have a toy rack, but when they do, it's either BJ or Red Deer, while they still exist in some form, Grossman (HGL) and Cornelius (Play Write) have changed radically since Covid struck, and Halsall (HTI) is mostly in larger stores now, doing bigger toys, like the Teamsters I keep shooting in TKMaxx and B&M.

As well as mostly being Red Deer or BJ, when you find rack toys, the only useful ones are either those already seen here at Small Scale World, or dinosaurs! So, these are two of them! Single bagged animals in that hollow, two-parts-glued synthetic rubber . . .

 

 

 . . . and a set of the hollow clip-together polyethylene types . We last saw these as a trio, in a yellowish/mustard base polymer, and only three animals to a set, with similar accessories.

 

Close-ups of the two larger models, both sets are out there now, there are about five sets of BJ Toys dinosaurs out there, including the set of mini monochromatic ones we've seen here before now, and others we may have seen here? And I've seen a third model in the green bags since purchasing these two.