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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.

Thursday, February 6, 2025

M is for Megasaurs!

Quite small 'Megasaus' actually! I've had a bit of a mini-adventure getting to the Sparing Fair at the NEC and back again, but it was mostly my own fault (the adventure bits) and proved a successful trip, although I slept for ten hours straight when I got back! Hence, a slight hiatus on posting the Chris/Dinosaur series!

Also note, the late Michael Hyde's collection is live, under the hammer now at Wessex Auctions with interesting religious and ecclesiastical subjects to the fore.
 

This is a quickie, looking at some small pocket-money bagged rack-toys from HGL which Peter Evans donated to the blog the other day. I was actually challenged to a game of football yesterday, in the aisles of Hall 5, by an HGL sales rep' who was clearly going stir-crazy at the end of day-three! I politely declined and continued shooting their quite extensive Dino' range!

Four bags, three different content assortments.



Those contents, shot as best I could!

The duplicate bag got opened, and as you can see, for one of the lowest price-points, they are really quite good, with nice detailing, and a reasonably dog-like Dimetrodon, although his sail's a bit small, maybe a juvenile, there'd be no room in an egg for all those spines, so they must grow in 'childhood'? The Carnosaur's a bit generic, the Kerthunkersaurus looks particularly leathery, and the Stegasaur could happily join any herd. Many thanks again to Peter for spotting and saving these.

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