Having been quite pleased with my five shots at the London Toy Fair, it
came as a bit of a surprise to see their stand at the NEC, where I
managed fifty-odd photographs which I've only managed to boil-down to
forty-six!
As mentioned in a previous post, this was the second lot I shot, but I
saw other similar displays, so clearly a coming trend, but the 60th
anniversary of the movie will be next years, so that makes sense,
there's bound to be plenty of terrestrial/BBC schedule filling crap on
the subject.
Flamingos and Unicorns, two recent trends, only cacti missing!
Buger, fries and a drink . . . AND pizza? Greedy git! A current trend, hanging on the coat-tails of blind-bag novelties like
Shopkins and others, we'll have more on a similar theme soon, here at
Small Scale World.
A few fuzzy images have been deleted, or I realised at the time and took
a second, better one (some of the knights below), but this is the only
shot of the other members of the set, from which the Panda we looked at
earlier today came from.
Private Atkins is going, under the heat of the display lights, but he's
keeping his back nice and straight! I shot the resins again too, but it
was one of the now deleted fuzzy images!
Two lots of cartoony Dinosaurs, both involving over-moulding (as many of these
pencil tops do), with the zonal colour-layers on the semi-flats, and a
more
Timpo-style colour-over-colour on the fully-round figures.
Aa-Haarrrrr! Poirates!
I think these are jiggly-dancers, probably hit the black (heat?) pad, to get them wobbling, and as well as dancers we have a royal family (including a ghost!) touristy subjects a cat, and an aforementioned cactus!
Space, again trends we've already seen here, some more than once, includes red-white-&-blue pulp-rockets, and big-head astronauts! I blame
Funko! I'll be looking out for the eraser rocket, to join the two we saw the other day, and the one we saw back at Christmas.
Chunky flats!
More over-moulds!
In the style of the
Keycraft/Senmsory Place mouse we saw the other day (and probably from the same factory, in China?), another trend, and one casting its references back to 1970's novelties . . . what goes around, comes around.
These weren't the only glittery, fantasy items I shot on the day!
Stately-home or historic building gift-shop fayre! There's some nice pieces in the above, but mostly resin I fear, which is very hard to keep undamaged, particularly in the hands of little-ones. I didn't handle them though, so hope some of the smaller stuff, like the key-rings is manufactured in a more substantial polymer like a PVC-substitute?
Witches cats! Four poses.
We saw these as generics in The Works many years ago!
A bit of religious stuff to finish-off. More like wedding-cake decorations!
So quite a line-up from Puckator, seen in Birmingham, but it's finding it out there; that garden centre I found the other day only had a very small proportion of this stuff, so it'll be tourist attractions, 'end-destination' leisure-facility gift-shops, seaside & novelty boutiques and the like, for locating most of it?
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