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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

I is for Image Dump, L is for Longacres

I shot these in the Longacres Garden Centre up at Bagshot on the A30, back in 2023, and they sort of got half-forgotten, half unused, but it's intended to clear the bauble stuff this year, and as these aren't something I'm particularly interested in for the tree (modern poured resin), but yet, are interesting as possible conversions to stand-alone figures, here they are.
 













The entire display was Gisela Graham product, and another thing I liked about them was that while most of them are characters/stories covered by Disney over the years, they are not the recognisably Disney imagery, but rather independent/more traditional renditions.
 
I think they had the same display last year, but don't remember seeing them when I popped-up there the other day. Asda Supermarkets have a similar selection of resin solids, but they ARE Disney/Marvel/DC properties.

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