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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.

Sunday, March 23, 2025

KTL is for Kandy Toys Limited - 2023 Spring Fair

I can on occasion get a bit confused between Keycraft, Kinder and Kandytoys, not less than when glancing at marks at a show, but they are all slightly different in their output, except when it comes to Kandy and Key both doing Chinasaurs.
 
Kandytoys (now also KTL) who have been around for a while now also have a newer subsidiary in My Toy (now M Y), and with both being based in the West Country, one feels they probably benefited from the demise of Marshall's down there, a few years ago?
 
Anyway, I've shot a lot of stuff at this year's trade fair, but I also shot a few bits, two years ago, in my rushed afternoon hour or so, so here's the older ones first! There is some duplication, but, you know; different angles, assortments, viewpoints etc . . . it all adds to the whole!
 

Wild Animals and individually packed small Dragons.
 
Larger Dragons, ID'ing two sent to the Blog by Jon Attwood I think?
 
Counter display of biggies!
 
I got these a couple of years ago, but I don't think I Blogged them?
 
The rest of it was all kinds of Dinosaurs in all kinds of packaging and all sizes . . . 
 




The ones on the left we've seen before under various brands.
 

Coming soon as a separate post!
 

'Soft Play' giants.
 

Lego-likey minis!
 
And if you think there's a paucity of blurb on this one, I opened the 'new post' about four or five days ago, added the title the text day, added the pictures a day later, added the opening blurb a couple of days ago, and then sat and looked at it, like a rabbit staring at the car bearing down on it, There's only so much you can say about this stuff sometimes!

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