Right, I'm two days behind, not that there's ever much of a plan here, but this should have posted later the same day as the previous post, with Dan Dare returning by now (hopefully tomorrow/later today), but I realised I hadn't shot the contents of one and had forgotten the origin of the other, so among other rushing around's in the last two days, I tried to track-down/tick-off those queries with little luck (I bought a duplicate of the one I have shot properly!), so I'll chuck the images I do have, here, first, and tie them together with a bit of blurb at the end!
The set with the blue ones, which I found second, was from/is from The Range, while the other set were from Home Bargains (the budget end of the TKMaxx empire), The Range still have them on display, the HB ones have disappeared, whether because they've taken them off for the Christmas season (the party bits seemed denuded) or because they've sold out (they are perfect Christmas stocking fayre) I don't know, but worth checking your local store/s, if you're taken by them.
The really noteworthy thing about them is that after years of the tired old Tim-Mee, MPC or Marx knock-off mini's which we have seen here before, that have been the staple of Hobbycraft and the party shops for years now, these are two sets of new, realistic, well sculpted and cut models, in the same bright colours and small sizes as those older ones.
And I use size because scale is a moot point at this size, and with the varying final size of the different species, these are all juveniles or babies in 1:76th, but artistic licence is allowed when you bring this stuff together!
The sealed set (Home Bargains) has eight different, slightly larger models, in a harder polyethylene, paired in four colours, while the other set, also four colours has only seven sculpts, which are more randomly packed (in both colours and pose numbers) as tens, of a modern, softish, PVC-replacement polymer.
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