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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.

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

W is for We Buy This Shit - Magazines

It's been a while since we saw what's on the news-stands, which these days include precious little news, beyond the downright depressing, I mean, who had World War Three on their card, for before the end of the year?! So, here's three which caught my eye, to the point of purchasing them?!

 
Horrible Histories usually have complete tat-shite on their covers, but are worth watching for the odd occasion when there is something that fall within the collector's frames of reference, and for me, this was one such issue!
 
There's a side collection of skeletons, and a bag of generic rats/mice somewhere, so that was good-enough, but then there were two maggots for the insect pile! Skeleton key-rings used to be a standard fairgrown prize for the lower scores on sideshows, like the duck fishing, hoopla or shooting booths.
 
A frighteningly realistic tongue and faker soft eye were the other novelties, but I wonder if the ring-jointed skeleton isn't actually an old tool from the 1960's or '70's? It looks very similar to others I have in the collection, of greater vintage than a few months ago!
 
This is last year's mag, yet it still took him more than six weeks to scrape one off of that there The Internet . . . outstanding, Bushey! Keep it up!
 
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2025/10/horrible-histories-freebie-skeletons.html 
 
I have no idea about PJ Masks; I've not seen it, not Googled it,
but I know it's one of the 'new generation', alongside Paw Parol!
 
I bought these to pose with small scale space stuff in the future!
Shades of batman movies in these! 
 
BBC Swashbuckle magazine.
 
A bit too cartoony, but they're here now!
Take the faces off with spirits and they'd be better. 
 
All the toy cards were supplied by Kennedy Enterprises, presumably a wholeseller, as you often find similar stuff on other magazines a few months apart, or slight variations on the same magazine as we've seen here with the Dino'mags/Dino' offers. And I've covered the fact that there are donation bins about the place for moving these cards if the kids aren't interested - Libraries, charity shops and some supermarkets carry them.

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