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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 9, 2025

T is for Terra by Battat - 2025

So this year I didn't see any Terra at Birmingham, but did shoot these in London, on an after-market suppliers stall, again I didn't note the company's name, but they had mostly third-party, early-reader books and soft-toys, if I recall correctly.
 
Taller, thinner versions of the fat tubs, now 'toobs' and probably with fewer duplicates or a one-of-each pose count, or something like that?
 
The huge buckets again!
 


The larger tubs of smallies are still out there, but they are having their flimsy 'cartons' and lids replaced with more substantial, long-term storage 'jars' with coloured lids and carry-handles.
 
I don't think I've had much, at all, of this make, come into the collection, since Brain's original shelfies in 2017, but I will keep an eye-out for the new, thin toobs, and grab them if I see them, just for the sample. I suspect there may be some of it among the unknown sea-life or insect zones?

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