B is for Blasting off Again!

My evilBay treat to myself this month was the other configuration of the Blast Off eraser set from TJM, for nine-quid-odd with postage on a Buy-It-Now. It was preferable to drive to Basingrad to see if the Home Bargains there had taken delivery of the other set (Fleet's branch of the TKMaxx subsidiary still has a stack of the set we looked at last time!), only to find they haven't, which would cost the same in petrol.

The two together, for those who need to know, the yellow is a good match, the red is pinker, and the green and blue are different shades, brighter and darker respectively. Pencils and box are identical.

 

The blasted additions, the rocket can lose the column of flame, to stand on its stumpy fins, and the two planets are the same moulding, which is also the one used for the 'rings' planet in the other set, as I suggested might be the case, last time, and that's them, box ticked!

B is for Blast Off!

I'm sure we've had that title before, but it keeps appearing in popular (and not so popular) culture, the 'Blast Off' hook; books, toys, board games, T-shirts, nightclubs, maths programmes, several movies, songs, poems. . . and now, these eraser sets!

I thought I'd shot these on the rugs from the kitchen before I put them into storage, but I'm not so sure that it's the same pattern, so I'm not so sure that I did? Therefore, they may be feeBay images, but whatever, you can see a nice set of erasers with a large'ish astronaut and some space-related items - a nice pulp-type ship atop a 'pillar of flame' (to milk the metaphors) and two planets.

 

Then I saw this in Home Bargains the other day for less than a fiver, and thought "Blog!", so grabbed one, not realising the contents were different, so I will go back and try to get a spaceship one with another-colour of figure for a follow-up post!

 

Credited to a TJM, which I think is the in-house label of TKMaxx? Which would mean that TKMaxx, Homesense and Home Bargains (a downmarket clearance type rival to B&M) are the same company, as is Maxisave in Australia! We are being corporatised!

 

Clearly the UFO (or it is Saturn, one of the planets in the other set, given a skirt?), needs some hot water, and the shooting star is the weakest of the seven items ID'd so far (astronaut is the same in both sets I think), but - from its shape - would be the best eraser!

 

The pencils are all gray/graphite pencils, not coloured 'crayons', and each has an uplifting motto, including the eponymous Blast Off! There's no sharpener to get them started though, which given the cheap nature of the units we've looked at here at Small Scale World for things like novelty sharpeners and Christmas crackers, seems a bit tight?