D is for Donations - Peter - Civilians

Right, I seem to have found my mojo, if only temporarily (there's often a hiatus before Rack Toy Month!), so I have a plan . . .

 

Actually the plan for right now was to be in Camden this afternoon, but that didn't happen, if you made it, I hope you had a good time and found nice things, I'm contemplating telling the Pentagon Natwest's head office is a hive of Iranian plotters

 

. . . and we're going to get all the stuff from Peter Evans, several donations, some car-booty and gifts, and all the stuff from Chris Smith's huge parcel, published over the next few days, twined by theme! Staring with the civilians;

 

We've seen something similar from Keycraft (dinosaurs) and HTI (various), while these Dancers are from AMO Toys in Denmark (as importers/source), and looking at the back of the pack Ninjas, Soldiers, Wrestlers and Monsters are out there somewhere. I think it's supposed to be pronounced wall'ee, to rhyme with crawly, rather than as my childhood nickname!

 

Speaking of wrestlers, these WWE ink-stampers, are very-much in the same vein as the Fortnight, Gang Beast and Ninja Turtle stampers currently out there.

 

Partial contents of a table football game, you get different types of table football, flicky, leaver kick, sprung figures, horizontal bars (mini 'fussball'), and magnetic wands, from whence these have washed up here!

 

There's a post on kicking footballers in the medium queue, and this guy joins a blue one we've seen recently, they're Peter Pan in origin, from the Cup Final game.

 

We've seen the Mousetrap diver before I think, but possibly in another colour, and older sculpt, he seems to have had a makeover, the torso to the left is one I've alluded to several times and needs to be sorted out with all the other sets of four or six primary-coloured board game figural, while I suspect the C3PO is a game playing piece as well, but I don't know the game offhand? It's not one of several Monopoly versions, nor is it the Star Wars Risk, so, any ideas?

 

A group of nicely done, but probably quite recent or even contemporary, road workers, and a diver who at first glance looks like the Hing Fat ones, but he's actually a better quality, and may be from a more nameable/recognisable make or brand's set, just I haven't recognised or named it!?

 

Another modernish road worker on the right, an early, factory painted Jean goose-girl from the farm range, and between them one of those fun gems you find in all these odds and sods, a Hong Kong, reasonable quality copy of an old bisque cake decoration, but in hard polystyrene plastic.

 

More of the Chinese knock-offs we got sent by the German agent, back at the start of the blog. These are large, O or G-gauge, and unlike the previously seen stuff, have locating pins on their feet.

 

The smaller chaps here ARE the Hing Fat ones, while the larger bloke has probably been tied to a carded set in the archive, but likely a generic? And the reason they're down here, is because these are from the latest lot, were shot months after the others and for speed, I'm loading them as they sit in the folders!

 

Three of the Teamsterz road menders, an older one in sea-green (actually, probably a fireman), an unknown race-team mechanic or garage accessory and the small one may be that group of Pioneer-Dacron-Realtoy stuff?

 

Another trio of Teamsterz (HTI), a cheapo rack-toy in brown we may have seen/ID'd before, and another of the Tesco-Woolie's et al ones, all building up for the firefighter page . . . which will happen!

 

Another of the Hong Kong fatty footballers, pencil-top rather than key-ring this time, and a new pose and/or colours I think, a large shepherd of the ELC type and a rather crude driver, probably from a farm tractor, from the stance?

 

All good stuff, and many thanks to Peter for spotting, accruing and/or saving it.

S is for Shelfies - TKMaxx and B&M Stores

Mostly dino'toys, in my two most recent visits to B&M in Basingrad, most of the shots being taken back at the end of July, with the rest taken about a month ago, as the Christmas stock was comming in, I'll be back there in the next week or so, with any luck?

 

A set of wild animals, grist to the mill, but the shots might help ID something, sometime in the future, which is always the primary reason for taking these shelfies, along with tying the contents/branding to other configurations on Amazon, evilBay or Alibaba.

Dynaforce, which aught to be some pun on Dino', but which includes the above zoo-animal set, so more of a phantom brand for B&M, it also (see below) seems to be competing directly with the Teamsterz stuff (possibly from Pioneer in China) which is a branding for Halsall / HTI, also carried in B&M's stores!

 

Going up several scale marks, we get this 3 1/2 or 4" action figure with articulated models in two sizes, along with a dino-skeleton kit, probably clip-together, but not the sort of thing I seek out for the stash, but when (not if) the smaller ones turn-up in the future they'll find a place in the collection, even if it's only long-enough to be photographed and Blogged!

 

Similar to the previous truck but with different contents and a sculptural cab which is even closer to the Teamsterz one! Pulling from a larger assortment of models, you only get one per lorry, with a daft egg and an even dafter mini-vehicle!

 

A week or so later - I have a feeling - based on a folder of B&M stuff, that the above are actually, all or mostly, TKMaxx shelfies, as I can't find their folder! Both stores tend to stock Teamsters and/or HTI, so it's easy to get confused, but makes the different truck below, definitely B&M, make more sense, the different designs were for different stores, but the dinosaur models are the same!

 

The older Teamsterz one, which I think we've seen before in both B&M and Smyths? You can see how the Dynaforce one is aping this one, down to the sculptured cab, smaller dinosaur models and daft mini-vehicles, but with HTI's you get more of both and no daft egg!

 

Animals are the same as the earlier Dynaforce conventional-cab truck, so whichever price point the buyer selects, we can assume Halsall get a cut!

 

The more recent visit revealed a new phantom or in-house brand 'Dino Hunter', of which there were, again, larger action figure sets as well as this one, which comes with four larger or medium-sized dinosaur models.

I may get this if they still have some on my next visit, it's only six-quid, and as you can see you get a total of 48 themed animals, in 12's; mini's of domestic, wild and dinosaurs; and a dozen dogs in a larger scale, closer to 54 or 60mm compatible.