Mostly dino'toys, in my two most recent visits to B&M in Basingrad, most of the shots being taken back at the end of July, with the rest taken about a month ago, as the Christmas stock was comming in, I'll be back there in the next week or so, with any luck?
A set of wild animals, grist to the mill, but the shots might help ID something, sometime in the future, which is always the primary reason for taking these shelfies, along with tying the contents/branding to other configurations on Amazon, evilBay or Alibaba.
Dynaforce, which aught to be some pun on Dino', but which includes the above zoo-animal set, so more of a phantom brand for B&M, it also (see below) seems to be competing directly with the Teamsterz stuff (possibly from Pioneer in China) which is a branding for Halsall / HTI, also carried in B&M's stores!
Going up several scale marks, we get this 3 1/2 or 4" action figure with articulated models in two sizes, along with a dino-skeleton kit, probably clip-together, but not the sort of thing I seek out for the stash, but when (not if) the smaller ones turn-up in the future they'll find a place in the collection, even if it's only long-enough to be photographed and Blogged!
Similar to the previous truck but with different contents and a sculptural cab which is even closer to the Teamsterz one! Pulling from a larger assortment of models, you only get one per lorry, with a daft egg and an even dafter mini-vehicle!
The older Teamsterz one, which I think we've seen before in both B&M and Smyths? You can see how the Dynaforce one is aping this one, down to the sculptured cab, smaller dinosaur models and daft mini-vehicles, but with HTI's you get more of both and no daft egg!
Animals are the same as the earlier Dynaforce conventional-cab truck, so whichever price point the buyer selects, we can assume Halsall get a cut!
The more recent visit revealed a new phantom or in-house brand 'Dino
Hunter', of which there were, again, larger action figure sets as well as
this one, which comes with four larger or medium-sized dinosaur models.
2 comments:
I dont understand the fascination with Dinosaurs as it seems modern kids are obsessed in a way that 1960s kids were not. I blame David Attenborough and Raquel Welch.
I have not seen anyhing figure wise in B7M or Home Bargains in years and not seen the products you mention. I wonder what happened all those Auto World (racing cars and mechanics) and Horrible Histories.....are they piled high in warehouses?
Not notices Chintoys (sic) in your index but recently got 4 sets of ACW general staff.......8 Union foot, 4 union on horses and the same for Confederate.
A certain amount of duplication as there are two Custers, two Lees, two Jacksons etc.....but maybe they had identical twin brothers.
No, FitzjamesHorse, figures, of any kind are currently very thin ion the ground, the Fantasy marines from Lanard are still piled in Smyths, and I found that pack of Modern GI's from Peterkin a few months ago, but not much else this year!
You won't find much of the new production in the Tag list, it's priced for and aimed at Adult collectors, most within 'the hobby', so never likely to be rare, despite small runs for most of it, and it gets lots of coverage elsewhere, on other Blogs, forums and the magazines, so I only pick up the odd sample now and again!
And - of course - the ACW was 'Brother against Brother'!
Cheers
H
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