B is for Back to London, July, 2 of 2

The other half of the carbooty-bag I picked up from Peter in July, is the civilian and animal stuff, a couple of interesting dinosaurs, a handful of Kinder, with sports, a few sci-fi/space types, and a bag of bits & bobs!

 

We'll start with the Dinosaur pair, neither was marked, both are well-decorated according to current fashion-trends for the muted colourfulness of natural-camouflage, but of more interest is that they both have articulated legs, the whole suggesting they were in a better (and more expensive) set, than yer' normal rack-toy fayre?
 

Standard tourist keepsake, only the marker-pen to remind you where you visited to purchase the piece. He's very much in the same vein as the Xandria stuff from the Netherlands, being a stack of PVC components, but on a plaster base.

 

A sizeable sample of the Hing Fat 'Galaxy Cowboys', we saw a couple of, the other day, and I have a reasonable sample already, so it will be a case of bringing them all together, and sorting out a definitive sample of foot, mounted and horses, by pose and colours.

 

Unknown, or Pioneer/Realtoy buggy, K&M/Wild Republic and Pioneer.

 

Short-arsed LB clone, Marty, MPC piracy

 

Mixed domestic stuff, I love the kitten scratching its ear, the puppy too, is new to me, while the rest are grist to the mill, with tatty Cherilea and Britains farm stuff.

 

Similar wild animals, nice Timpo wolf, and the brown bear is new.

 

Hong Kong and 'China' farm people.

 

Circus - Charbens, Hong Kong (various) and Marty/M-Toy.

 

Road workers and mechanics, a Padgett/A-Z on the left I think, two China chaps, a Dinky and a dumper-truck driver from Hong Kong or China.

 

An interesting sort of 1970's (?) knock-off of Strawberry Shortcake stuff, or something of that age and aesthetic? Unknown mini action-figure and racing car driver, and a micro-tractor from Kinder.

 

Hong Kong copy of Gem footballer, unknown skateboarder (there's a lot of them around), Marx boxer, Remco firefighter, and Corgi US Policeman with megaphone.

 

Bits and bobs, including a sand-castle flag which seems bigger the usual, and may have a bit of age, and some useful rockets and missiles for something, still on their runners.

 

 

There was a tin of contemporary or near-current Kinder animals, some have had several issues, and there can be colour variations (camels), and while some are super realistic, some can be a bit cartoony, or - in the case of the ones with babies - cutesie, and it's another black-panther!

Thanks to Peter Evans for saving this lot for the Blog, there was an even bigger lot in August, which should be next, but I've got a Sandown Park report to squeeze in before the next one, and another supporter of the Blog is sending a parcel as I type!