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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.

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

M is for More on Manta Force and Mini Sets

Sad, because it's an obituary, posted over a year ago, but interesting for the connections it mentions in passing between Bluebird, Tomy, Mattel, OriginWaddington’s/Parker, Seven Towns and Peter Pan.
 
Reader Mikee King, who himself worked at Bluebird sent me this link to the obituary of Chris Wiggs (1948-2024), written by Chris Taylor.
 
 
And I can see myself reading more articles over at Mojo World, which like a lot of 'in house' industry stuff, gets totally ignored by Google these days. So thanks to Mr King for finding it, and sending the link to us.

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