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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.

Friday, February 28, 2025

K is for Keycraft - Keycraft (Global)

In an act of supreme laziness and lack of imagination, I have titled the last three posts according to how they were differentiated in Picasa! These were shot at the Birmingham Spring Fair in 2023, so two years ago, I didn't go last year, too much to do down here, in fact I didn't go to either show last year, and the plan, going forward is to do London one year, and Birmingham the other, and alternate between the two?
 
Dinosaurs! Yes, these are the ones we've looked at recently, twice. I found - looking for something else - that we looked at a handful a while ago, so A) I may have duplicates, well . . . I have! And B) I might try to get the remaining few poses.
 
'Rubber Jiggler' giant Insects!
 
I haven't seen these in shops yet, but they will be out there somewhere, and at 12 per pack, on the small side. We've seen similar paint-your-own stuff and glow-in-the-dark ones, but not these specific sets? However, the lack of windows and the shallowness of the cartons means they may be rather featureless flats, or even flat 'shapes', like glow-in-the-dark ceiling stars?
 
Large farm animals, I think the pale horse looks familiar and may have come into the stash with a mixed lot, I don't search for this over-sized stuff out, but it does slowly come in. Note, both horses are noticeably well-endowed in the procreation-equipment department!
 
I asked if I could get these on the floor to photograph them against a neutral background, purely to ID the animals, and I think they have since all come into the pile? Pretty sure a pair of those calves with their 'world cow' style black-patches, were in a mixed 'H is for...' post, likewise the rather fluffy lambs (or a t least one), and rather pastel piggies look familiar. . . so they will all be sorted-out at the other end and labelled-up Keycraft!
 
They either had quite a small stall, or not much which attracted my interest two years ago, although I was also in a hurry, that year? I seem to have caught the pocket-money toy display stand as being a large safari Land Rover / 4x4!

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