Or: P is for Poor-old Pluto!
Picked these two up on Wednesday of this week, so both are fresh in the shops, and shops I regularly check for such stuff, to boot!
The second find is on the left, the
Legami set of
Solar System erasers, while about an hour earlier I'd grabbed the
Scribble Pop Shop set in Home Bargains (the
TKMaxx vehicle). Google's AI answer-bot tells us
"Legami was founded in 2003 and has their headquarters in Bergamo, Northern Italy.
They started by selling book straps to tie your books together for
easier carrying, and now they have more than 4000 products across all
sorts of stationery types.", which makes more sense than they're having appeared out of nowhere, as they otherwise seem to have - presence at both recent product fairs, and more items in the queue, from a garden centre! Obviously, it was the Iwako-style mini-rocket ships which attracted me, not the . . .
. . . astronaught in a nappy (diaper)!
The Scribble Pop Shop; an in-house branding, also responsible for a pencil case and colouring set in the same space theme, is presumably ('obviously' once you know the history/timings) aimed at countering the
Legami set, or riding its boot straps (book straps!). And they seem to have got their generic planet from whoever made
Legami's Saturn? The
Legami set was in
Ryman's, but they are also in garden centres, venue gift-shops and
Claire's I think? Poor old Pluto!
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