R is for Return, to Keycraft Dinosaurs

They've managed to get a couple of mentions in the last few weeks, including the freebies from the Gift Fair, but it's their turn for show reports and not only do I have a load of Gift fair shots, but there were three in the archive from, 2020, '22 & '23! But here are a few physical Keycraft items!

 

Inclusion balls, under the Fumfings sub-brand, we have seen them before, briefly, in a Chris donation post, I think, and there are longer posts in the long-queue, but I picked these up, one of each, as samples a while back (January '20), not at the fair, but possibly on the way home, from the party shop at Clapham Junction, but I tend to publish those posts closer to the time, so it may be that they came from a discount store in Aldershot?

 

Construction/manufacture is slightly different on both of them, as well as the shape variation, with the Steggi's placed on the set green layer of his ball, sideways to it, while the Dimetrodon has been placed feet-first in the top of the red layer, before it was fully cured, so it's bled into the clear layer on top, leaving him floating in an egg of red-mist!

 

While on Monday I went back to Hobbycraft, and got three more of the dinosaurs we looked at the other day, knowing this sequence was in the offing. As with the others they are quite well done, if having unimaginative paint, and all three are from the 'green' batch, or same tool-run!

 

They are unnamed, with a Made in China mark and an alphanumerical code with an A or B prefix, so may be models previously seen elsewhere, and I suspect some of the set were in that big batch of mixed prehistoric's from Jon Attwood.

 

I was also going to suggest, previous issuing from Toy Major, but their markings/product codes tend to differ I think? However, the point I'm making is that with two code lines, there could be between a minimum of 12 to as many as 16 or even 24 animals or more (?), being found in a full set?