N is for Not News to Me!

Because I pay attention! Do you think they don't know other blogs exist, or are they just pretending they don't, so - in their own heads - they can convince themselves of the uniqueness of their 'little club', and justify the plagiarism?

 

Peter Evans found these up in London and they were part of the August pick-up, but as friend and fellow blogger Jan had already posted Brainrot on his Site of Curiosities, they weren't new to me! But these seem to be the next step in the franchise, borrowing from gaming.

 

In that they have an attached electrictrickery-box, as a plinth, and do light & sound stuff! These both seem to be new characters as their names aren't on the website yet, but a ninja-takeaway cup fighting a chimp-headed giant banana slice is something anyone should pay to see!

 

We saw the stand-alone figures on the Blog last December, courtesy of Brian B, mentioned several times in connection with the even weirder Skibidi stuff (also from Brian), and those odd unbranded figures we saw at the start of October (also from Peter), they tend to more animal forms, but the Robot 'family' group, are mostly inanimate objects.

 

I haven't tried them, but you have to pull out the white tab, to make the contact which will enable the battery to start operating. The removanle top-half can also be used as a key-ring. Thanks to Peter, two boxes ticked, but I'm not planning on seriously collecting this stuff!

 

Also two new posts on the But is it Giant Blog earlier the morning.

WTF is for Whacky Tall Fellows!

These came from Peter Evans a couple of weeks ago, and are, well, whacky tall fellows . . . or fellowesses? I mean WT-very-actual-F? Clearly the Hong Kong 'old guard' in China, jumping on the Skibidy Toilet/Brainrot bandwagon, and it's so nice to know this shite is still being planned, designed, and issued!

 

No brand, no branding, no marks, no date, no nothing, just a bag . . . full of bags! Totally generic, and I thought they might be bendy toys, but it turned out they were just polyethylene novelty figurines, presumably picked from a counter display box or outer liner of some kind?

 

There's eight in total, about 80mm, two each of four polymer colours, most (five) having a skeleton as the central frame, and with open speaker/cone shapes being found on four of them, the red one on the left having shark'y mouths in the open ends of the cones. All have one colour of paint, stab-and-hoped, with some having two colours, and the giant eye having three.

 

The black 'baby' being the obvious odd-ball, having nothing in common with the other seven, while two incorporate inanimate human-constructed objects in the red traffic light and black screen of some kind. Completely whacky, completely fun, hard to stand up, classic Hong Kong tat, from 30-years after Hong Kong stopped marking their output separately, but I bet that's where these have come from!

 

Thanks to Peter for finding and grabbing them for us. These are so bad, they’re WTF'ing cool! 

R is for Rack-Toy Round-up - New York

Brian B has sent us a sample of what's hanging on the hooks in New York's Bodegas and Trading Posts this festive season, and there are some past names to check again, with soldiers, frogs and, err, well, we'll get on to Brain Rot in a minute!

 

A nice set of tropical frogs from JPW International, probably seen before in different packaging, possibly available elsewhere for more 'geld' under a bigger name (K&M, CollectA or one of the Japanese moulders?), but with 8-10 in the bag, around the 30-cents mark, per frog!

 

Hunson's current 'Army Men' offering is a mix of two armies of figures, being later sub-piracies of Matchbox and other figures, it's better than nothing in a landscape which has so few army toys beyond the big-box, generic, action figure stuff.

 

Speaking of Action Figures - this unbranded set has an interesting action-figure scaled swamp-bike at the top! I can't really make out the figures, but I think they are the little ones we've seen many times now from Poundland and the long-gone 99p Stores?

 

While Brain Rot is . . . err . . . a knock-off? Continuation? Extension . . . take? I think we'll call it a 'take', a cleaner take on the Skibidi Toilet meme-stuff, which we also saw here, also courtesy of Brain a while back, apparently not coming out of Italy, I shall defer to Jan, who covered them on his Site of Curiosities a few weeks ago, and found a link which goes some way to explaining!