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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.
Showing posts with label 'Megasaurs'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 'Megasaurs'. Show all posts

Thursday, February 6, 2025

M is for Megasaurs!

Quite small 'Megasaus' actually! I've had a bit of a mini-adventure getting to the Sparing Fair at the NEC and back again, but it was mostly my own fault (the adventure bits) and proved a successful trip, although I slept for ten hours straight when I got back! Hence, a slight hiatus on posting the Chris/Dinosaur series!

Also note, the late Michael Hyde's collection is live, under the hammer now at Wessex Auctions with interesting religious and ecclesiastical subjects to the fore.
 

This is a quickie, looking at some small pocket-money bagged rack-toys from HGL which Peter Evans donated to the blog the other day. I was actually challenged to a game of football yesterday, in the aisles of Hall 5, by an HGL sales rep' who was clearly going stir-crazy at the end of day-three! I politely declined and continued shooting their quite extensive Dino' range!

Four bags, three different content assortments.



Those contents, shot as best I could!

The duplicate bag got opened, and as you can see, for one of the lowest price-points, they are really quite good, with nice detailing, and a reasonably dog-like Dimetrodon, although his sail's a bit small, maybe a juvenile, there'd be no room in an egg for all those spines, so they must grow in 'childhood'? The Carnosaur's a bit generic, the Kerthunkersaurus looks particularly leathery, and the Stegasaur could happily join any herd. Many thanks again to Peter for spotting and saving these.