While I was up at the Spring Gift Fair in Birmingham last week, I had a very useful chat with a rep' from Keycraft (among others), and while there are show reports to come, he actually gave me a couple of samples, both of which were figural and fun, so here they are, with a Brucey Bonus for a three count!
The first thing was this bendy-toy, astronaut, too cool for moon-shot flight school! To be honest, because NASA's spacemen have what equates to a fat-suit, by the time you've modelled it accurately, there is too much rubber compressing to allow the wires to move far, so he's probably the least bendy of all the bendy toys we've seen here, poses rather limited to Dr. Frankenstein's Monster in a flight-suit, but he's still fun!
He has the same twin air holes at various points in the back, as have all bendy toys since the year dot . . . Maybe it's to do with how they keep the wires spaced correctly, in the mould, for the surrounding substrate to be equally distributed, with the 'maquette' wires in the dead-centre of the cross-sections, if you know what I mean?
Well, well, well, really? Is he just using me for ideas now? That's tragic!
The
Keycraft chap also gave me this fun item, and as you can see, because both the cheese and the mice are made of stretchy silicone, you can stuff the meeces in one hole, and pull them out of another! This will provide hours of entertainment for little people of a certain age, or even excitable Aspergics of an embarrassing age!
I then found this, unlabelled, in the new toy superstore in Basingrad (
Toytown), and a quick google suggested it may also be
Keycraft, however the same Google results further suggest an outfit called
The Senmsory Place issues them with grey, white or dun-brown mice, while
Keycraft's issue are typically only the grey one, so this may be a
Sensory Place one?
The purchase code, the only clue I have was KS, which could be Keycraft-something, or have a completely different meaning! You can see, however, it's almost the same size as the holey one, and there's another, similar novelty, in forthcoming posts!
I've since - this week - seen both the bendy astronaut and the holy mice for sale in Redfields, Fleet, so very-much out there now!
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