C is for Cinematic Celebrities and Cartoon Characters

All the other sci-fi/fantasy stuff tends toward the realm of TV and the moving pictures, to which cartoon characters and fairy tales add a few other harder to classify items, and that material is the direction of this post!

 

A lovely 54mm Barbie, who could have gone in the previous post, as an obvious astronaut, but she's better employed kicking this post off. Credited to Mattel Canada, she is probably the same size as the US shelfied one, with a different card, Brian B sent us, a few years ago, and of which I had no clue to the size - see the Barbie Tag.

 

And - of course - a small scale, solid figurine of a much larger articulated doll, this is exactly what Andy Warhol was on about when he famously said "Pop [culture] will eat itself", something you can also see in comics and Graphic Novels now, with endless mash-ups and crashing of characters into each-other's 'universes', in the end it all gets very silly with Star Wars-Angry Bird-Deforms, or, take The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; on the one hand, a fine, stand-alone, escapist action-movie, on the other hand, utter nonsense and rubbish, which had several authors' spinning in their graves! Internecine naval gazing!

 

Three Power Rangers, these are the Kellogg's premiums I think, and they clearly seem to have only done the two poses, and covered the various Rangers with colour variations! Although the ladies have different heads, so maybe it's just the guys who share a sculpt . . . does it matter? I've got the paragraph!

 

Gulliver's Supergirl premium from Pepsi, on the left, beautifully painted by someone, and while the paint has been chipped a bit over the years, I'll leave it, maybe even touch it up one day? Interestingly, she's the same sculpt as the Res Plastic for Kinder (and PIF Gadget?) one, so some cross-fertilisation or mould-swapping there, I think! I should add that I now believe only the 30mm ones were issued by Kinder, these 54mm's wouldn't fit in the eggs.

 

On the right is a soft PVC-alike Superman figure from NJCroce of bendy toys fame, how they came and went in a couple of toy-seasons?! He's not a bendy, just a slightly wobbly figure, clearly they haven't finished with their DC licence! 

 

Two vast blobs from Argentina, and you can't beat Argentina for 'toy' appeal! I think they may be from Kamen Rider (is that a crude attempt at Kuuga on the left?), but what do I know, very little on that subject, so Atomic-Super-Kaiju-Boy is still in the frame! They are about 120mm and showing that Argentine favourite, lashings of silver paint!

 

Army Ants/Combattini/Terminators, we've seen them before, no black ones this time, but a new colour, bright pink, and the details are on the Tag. But I noticed some seem to be missing separate weapons, and/or have holes for accessories, of which, one, a radio-set, is still attached, so I now have to hope I have some of the missing items in the bits-zone!

 

Pretty sure these are Kinder now, and probably quite recent/contemporary, we saw a Chewbacca from Chris I think, not that long ago, and they seem to be taking from the 'classic' characters.

 

A Disney sucker, we've seen several generic 'monster' characters and a superhero, so I'm guessing some recent playground craze/blind-bag thing which I missed? Along with what I suspect are two Pokémon?

 

Marx Simple Simon in chalky-blue plastic, and an unknown action figure who may be a knock-off of something more obvious like the GI Joe's or that Airfix line . . . I really don't do action figures, unless they are Galloob, or Matchbox, or . . . doh! And is he a diver or a spaceman?

 

Odd gnome to the left and swivel-head alien to the right who was probably a key-ring, or hand-bag/mobile-phone hanger, and I think it glows in the dark, but forgot to check! 

 

Small scale bits include a DFC or similar revolting peasant (and he's rebelling, too, boom-boom!), a couple of Bluebird Zero Hour/Code Zero, a small vinyl shuttle from Star Trek (Playmates?), a Marx 'Kin's cat (Figaro), Christmas cracker angel orchestra figure, and a lovely fully-glazed, ceramic little-baby-Jesus, who might be a French fève?

 

I think these are all Moshlings? But they could be Zomlings, Ugglys pets, Super Zings, Super Things, or even Shopkins/Grossery Gang, I really don't know, and purple eye 'shadow' seems to be a feature of most of them!

 

They are mostly in the Capsule Toy/Blind Bag queue, I started clearing a while ago, and I'll make some sense of them here, just to get the boxes ticked, but there was this bagful, as a part of one of the donations.
 

Again thanking Adrian Little, Brian Carrick, Colin Penn, Isaac, Matt Murphy, Martin Fahie, Michael Mordant-Smith, Paul, Peter Evans and Trevor Rudkin for everything on the day.