H is for How They Come In - Recent Charity Lot

Continuing in the same vein as the Chris Smith posts, there will be a bunch of posts with stuff from Peter Evans shortly, interspersed with Toy Fair/Spring Gift Fair stuff, but we'll have a bit a change first, and before that change, I'll throw a few other bits up; this was a Charity Shop purchase a couple of few weeks ago.

 

Three bags, rabbits, dinosaurs and other animals!

 

We saw these before, the Ubisoft Rayman Raving Rabbids, or 'Rabid Rabbits'! Each has a costume or theme, they are blind-bag collectables, and the best way to get a sample is like this as I bet they're not cheap out there in retail-land! They are more fun that those Kid Robot Dunny Bunnys or Medicom's dead Bearbricks, but still look quite unsettling with their lack of rabbit nose, and bulgy-eyes!

 

I believe they are connected to a video game for the Nintendo Wii, and there seem to be hundreds of them! I thought the Rabbid in a rabbit onesie, with a toy rabbit in the pocket, was quite the existential conundrum, in the thought-provoking department, and judging by the look on his face, so does he!

 

Skeletal dinosaur bits, the two Stegosauruses, are so similar, one has to be a piracy of the other, but subtle differences and a more obviously bent tail, suggest they are not from the same house? The Dimetrodon is disappointingly Spinosaur-like!

 

A mixed lot, hard to say anything about something you know nothing about, one or two of them may be from the same set, and some are better quality than the others, but until they are sorted thought the rest in the stash, they won't make much sense like this. The Tyrannosaur is probably the nicest here, with the salmon-pink stretchy, possibly by Henbrandt?

 

I think the figure may be Kinder, modern and missing something? Likewise, the purple alien thing? The Panda too, looks like the recent/current ranges and lines of natural-history related sets from Kinder.

 

The sucker snow-bear will go in the novelty sucker zone, and the big blue chap is an unmarked soft silicon stretchy, knocking off the Panosh/Novalinea types, probably from a 1990's Lucky Bag or capsule? And two snakes for the snake bag, you always keep them in a bag, so you can firmly knot the top, or they get out!

 

I think we saw a large Amazon/Ali Baba set with two colours of the same octopus, so I should be able to attribute these to some sort of branding at some point, they came with the turtle which may or may not be from the same set?

 

Three (?) kittens and lots of puppies, I think most of these may be the ones which get given away with kids comics/magazines, I've seen loads but not purchased any as they are a bit off the Blog's beaten track, and were bound to come-in, in the end, in lots like this, but I suppose I should look out for them to get a title? Or even try to get the issuer's ID, off the card, but they tend to be quite firmly attached to the publications!