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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.

Friday, May 15, 2026

D is for Donation - Chris - Books, TV, Movie and Licensed

Chris has also sent a bunch of licensed stuff to the blog, it made only three images, but some very interesting or useful bits are in there.
 
Three very different Hulks, the Mon Desire chocolate-egg gift, an unknown, which may be something like Wizards of the Coast (it has a 'gaming' finish' to it, but no base?), and a vintage pencil top, which is a real find! Superman is another pencil top, while Spider-Man is an eraser. He's a waterslide transfer print, like many of the 'flat' shaped erasers of the time.
 
The Super-deform is probably contemporary, or near-contemporary and is one of the archers, from the clips I've seen on YouTube, there are several archers, of both sexes and both franchises - Marvel and DC! And the Flash (?) could be also be Wizards, sans base, Kinder, sans base or one of the electronic game pieces (sans base!) we had an overview of, a while ago?
 
Brilliant find! We finally have the eponymous Charlie Chalk pencil top (blue, on the left), and confirmation that the previously seen Trader Joe had mould-release damage to his hat, although, it seems to be a double stamp of the triangular fold which is meant to be in his hat, but still nice to get an undamaged one with normal eyes!
 
The Simpsons Nelson Muntz (he's a  . . . yeah!) may go with the Homer (set wise) seen in the immediately-previous post, of stuff from Peter, they are the same size, maybe they are Kinder?. . . Goes and does a quick search, yes they are, but different sets! Bully, he was a bully!
 
But the pink Wilma is a fantastic find, as it's clearly a Hong Kong knock-off of the Kohner set's figure, we saw here;
 
 
And it is amazing how much stuff, ends-up having an HK clone, several times this year I've seen things I thought were too rare, or esoteric to have been copied, standing there, all Hong Kong'y! Many thanks to Chris for saving it.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The deform in the first picture looks like Zartan one of the baddies from G I Joe.
M.

Hugh Walter said...

Yes! I thought it was a hood!

H

Spectrum Steve said...

Hi Hugh, Yep that is Zartan who I thought was from the GI Joe 'Combat Heroes' line but is in fact from a Line called GI Joe 'Micro Force'. And that is not the Flash it is however Iron Man! hope this helps as always.

Hugh Walter said...

Heehee! Cheers Steve, yes, from the clips I catch on YouTube, Iron Man has had more suits than movies in the Franchise, and I only caught the first one! Likewise Flash and Wolverine (the other red'y/Yellow'y guys on my radar) have had several changes of costume; what comes of each movie having the weight of half-a-billion items of Chinese 'Merch' on their backs, I guess!

H