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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.

Monday, February 24, 2025

S is for Sluban

Along with the Chinese Pantasy we saw the other day, another Lego-likey with a notable presence in the Toy Fair at Kensington Olympia, was this outfit, Sluban, indeed they had a bigger stand and a glossy catalogue, with a varied range, some being Cobi-like military subjects, some more obviously seeking tourist destination traffic. 
 
Sluban is another Chinese brand, with the European opperation based in the Netherlands. Second shot's a bit fuzzy!
 




Not a lot I can add, Google will reveal to you, the same data it would allow me to parrot. It's compatible with Lego, looks - aesthetically - more like Cobi and is something I won't be collecting personally, having off-loaded half my modest collection of Lego on friend's kids over the last decade or so, the other half to Timpo-Dave but I might hang on to any figures or accessories that come my way in the future, as I also have to my Lego and Megabloks figures!

Note the flowering plants, on the bottom left shelves, Lego are now doing flowers too, not the first time it's followed where it's rivals lead!
 
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