I shot the first of these in Sainsbury's a couple of weeks ago, found the second a few days later, and Brian Berke sent us the rest a few days ago, and they illustrate one of this year's Halloween trends - short, fat, stumpy white ghosts with cartoon faces!
The white button toys in
Sainsbury's, among the only Bloggable novelties I found this year (there is another post's-worth), and technically, well, factually, they aren't white-button, they are pull-back & go, so I lied there!
I then found this Ghost candle (right) of similar size, both about 70mm high, in
The Range, and this design of short (height-to-width ratio), fat ghosts with - mostly - silly faces, is a real trend this year, with basically this design, found as soft toys of pillow-size, large ceramics of the
TKMaxx decor-types, blow-ups and etc . . .
And these - branded to
Daiso (of Japan) - are white-button's . . . I suspect, from the left, a jiggler or runner (the ghost), a jumper (the pumpkin) and, obviously, a walker Zombie? Not seen over here, maybe next year, or maybe in another region. And, we find the same basic design of the ghost, possibly with flappy arms? Thanks to Brian for the shots of this last trio.
Daiso/Seria seem to be a chain of 100-yen stores, like pound- or dime-stores, but a different value point, in Japan, and also operating to similar values in the local currencies of South Korea and Singapore.
2 comments:
Daiso have reached Sydney too - household knick-knacks and cutesy toys. The city one has walls of gachapon machines outside, always worth a looksee.
That's a useful bit of Info, Tom, thanks! What is the hook, $1A, or less than $5A? AND gachapon? You lucky, lucky . . . . 's, we only dream of gachapon!
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