I is for Image Dump!

Getretro is a wholesaler of old stock, cancelled toys and other end-of-line clearance stuff, so the fact that I didn't get around to posting these, from the London Show back in 2023 makes sense as this had all, already, been out there somewhere, and those who needed to know about such things would already have found them!

 

 

Retro, Risk, Revell & Role Play!

 

Eaglemoss Dr's Who, Who, Who & Who . . . Who, Who, Who, Who and Who, a bunch of companions, Daleks, Cybermen and someone called War?

 

Lionel, now a trademark for shifting big-box sets from China.

That's it really, just to get them up here and out of the way, as it were! Website;

https://www.getretro.co.uk/

S is for Stretch Ar . . . Star Wars

I shot these in Lidl a couple of weeks ago and posted them on Brain Heiler's Faceplant group page, as I know there's a fair-few Star Wars fans there, and Jay Luttrull reported they were showing up at Meijer and Walgreens, where they are likely to hang-around longer than the week or so of Lidl's weekly-bargain model!

If you were a fan of Stretch Armstrong, Stretch Monster or Stretch whatever-the-other-one-was-called, you must want these! Star Wars stretchers, from Character Options, although the bad guys seem to have carried more sway in the design-meetings!

H is for How They Come In - The 'Meah' Lot!

Last week's finds were a bit disappointing I'm afraid, but to not show it would be to upset the sort of sub-conscious symmetry which drives people with Asperger's, so here it is for your amusement; two bags of relative shite and another teddy-bear.

Bag'a'shite! Bloooody Stuuudents! "Oh, oh look, I gotta disssserrrtaaation"! The bottom three rows are some sort of 'zing, 'ling or 'kin, which sort I haven't looked up, but they are all piling-up in Picasa (under 1964!) for an overview one day!

Purple Alien is fun if a bit cartoony, eight Iwako or Iwako-piracies top right, a Character Options footballer (useful as a sample for comparisons, if for nothing else) and three similar figures by someone else who makes better 'minis' than Lego!

Bag No.2; more of the same but mostly resin and I rather like the piggy-wiggy superheroes -  Superham and Captain Gammon! Anyone know anything about them; the trouble with poured resin is anyone can do it in their shed or garage and get it into a local craft or gift/tourist shop, so you never know the level of 'commercial' interest, but they are both quite professional looking so somebody may know what they are all about?

Footballer and the two love-hearts go back to charity, but the pink 'knitted' PVC monkey stays until I find out about it! And a couple more unknown 'kins.

Another teddy-bear who ticks all the Covid-19, clapping but no pay-rise, NHS cannon-fodder boxes!

C is for Christmas Exhibition - 1 of 5 - Construction Blocks

The Fleet & Crookham Local History Group had got their Christmas exhibition up and running the next time I visited after mentioning it the other day week, and I duly shot it for posterity and our annual visit, which starts here!

This year they had a themed display on each shelf, concentrating on construction toys, ancient and modern and I will be looking at each shelf on a separate post to limit the images to manageable 'lumps'

It's not just Lego that copied (stole, pirated . . . ) the Hestair Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks of Hilary Page, many other clones have come and gone, some compatible some [deliberately?] not, while the search for an alternate system also goes-on, K'nex having come closest so far.

The top shelf of this seasons display contains various other makes, and here we see (from the left) a Minibrixs signal box for O-guage model railway layouts (11), a farm loader (or 'tele-porter') from Click Brick (6) and a Kreo 'Transformer' (1) and one imagines there was no more care paid to a Transformers license as there was to a Lego (or Kiddicraft) license!

Sta-Lox soft-plastic polyethylene bricks come from the former colonies (Canada) and we all seem to have had a few kicking-about in the toy zone when we were kids, although I suspect a fair few of them were actually Hong Kong sub-copies, or locally produced under license by Merit or Peter Pan or someone like that? They were meant to represent real house-bricks, they made better stone forts (as here) and were quite useful, if you wanted something simple, in red, as that was the extent of their invention!

Ignore the blue thing, that's Lego on the shelf below (next post) and starting with the tractor (2); we have products from an unknown contract manufacturer for My Toys/Kandy Toys, an importer seen here at Small Scale World a few times now, a mini-jeep/ATV and gun, also from Click Brick (3), with modern architecture (well, when I say 'modern', I mean a mid-century/post-war, Bauhaus/post-modern Walter Gropius style of modern!) in the centre, from Bell (8), Merit (J&L Randall) would inherit the moulds, and there are both Spanish and Italian copies or licensed-versions of this simple polyethylene, stacking, infant toy.

Behind it is an Ice Castle from Mega Blocks (also Canadian - 13), with a pirate ship from K'nex with the new(-'ish) blocks bringing it closer to Lego (12) off to the left, Click Brick's tele-porter in front. While going right we have a Block Tech (Poundland, The Works etc...) Rock Drill (4) with a Wilco (also Block Tech - as contractor) dinosaur in the background, there's another, baby one on the corner.

We finish with Airfix's Eurofighter Typhoon (9) and Character Options Challenger Tank (14) with two from Nano Blocks - Big Ben and Tower Bridge, a sort of half-scale or miniaturised Kiddicraft/Lego block system from Japan (5).

A look back down the shelf for a better angle on one or two of them, the gun and dinosaur are probably better in this shot.

Still on display in Fleet library.

News, Views Etc . . . Saturday 27th April - Friday 3rd May 2019

No blurb today, no pack drill . . .

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Toy Fairs

Reminder - Today - Friday 26th April 2019

Alfreton - Toy and Train Fairs (Malcolm Townsend) - Evening Fair

The Leisure Centre, Church Street, Alfreton, DE55 7BD

Web. - www.tttf.co.uk

Mob. - 07951 072 790

19:00 - 21:00hrs

Admission charge unknown

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Saturday 27th April 2019

Beconsfield - Toy & Train Fairs (Peter Levinson)

Beconsfield School, Wattleton Road, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1SJ

Internet presence unknown

Tel. - 01282 051 518 (Peter or Diane)

10:30 - 14:30hrs

Admission charge unknown

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Sunday 28th April 2019

Ashington - David Parsons - Toy & Train Collectors Fair

Ashington Community Centre, Foster Lane, Ashington, West Sussex, RH20 3PG

eMail - modelcarmart@gmail.com

Tel. - 01424 846 676 (Pete)

Mob. - 07742 609 865 (David)

10:00 - 14:00hrs

 Adults £1.50, concessions £1

Carmarthen - Chris Dyer Fairs

Carmathen Leisure Centre, Llansteffan Road, Johntown, Carmarthen, Wales, SA31 3NQ

Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk

Tel. - 01643 702 757

Mob. - 07966 694 579

10:30 - 15:00hrs

Admission £2

Chester-le-Street - Jim Corr Fairs

Lord Lawson Academy, Birtly Lane, Birtly, DH3 2LF

eMail - jim_corr73@hotmail.co.uk

Mob. - 07504 035 955

10:00 - 15:00hrs

Admission £3, children/senior citizens £2, 'Early Bird' £5

Colchester - SRP Toy Fairs

Langham Community Centre, School Road, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5PA

Web. - http://srptoyfairs1.co.uk/

eMail - srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk

Mob. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)

10:00 - 14:00hrs

Admission unknown

Exeter - Bulldog Fairs - 'Westpoint'

Westpoint Arena, Clyst St. Mary, Exeter, EX5 1DJ

Web. - www.bulldogfairs.com

eMail - bulldogfairs@aol.com

Tel. - 01373 452 857

Mob. - 07917 125 641

10:30 - 14:30hrs

Admission £4, each under-16 free with adult, 'Early Bird' £10 from 08:30hrs

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Tuesday 30th April 2019

Garstang - Janet Pearson - Garstang Evening Fair

Kirkland & Catterall Memorial Hall, PR3 0HR

Web-presence unknown

01282 439 009

18:00 - Finnish

Admission fee unknown

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Auctions

Monday 29th April 2019

Lewis - Wallis and Wallis

West Street Galleries, Lewis, Sussex, BN7 2NJ

Web. - wallisandwallis.co.uk

eMail - toys@wallisandwallis.co.uk

Tel. - 01273 480 208

Fax. - 01273 476 562

Antique Playthings & Toy Soldier Sale

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Tuesday 30th April 2019

The following Star Wars Prototype Resin Master Tooling Aids will be offered for sale as part of the Vectis TV and Film related auction on 30 April, 2019.

• Logray
• Emperors Royal Guard
• Bib Fortuna

https://www.vectis.co.uk/star-wars-prototype-resin-master-tooling-aids-30th-april-tv-and-film-related-sale

Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions

Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 9JZ

Web. - www.vectis.co.uk

eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk

01642 750 616

Star Wars and Other TV and Movie Memorabilia sale

"The TV & Film related sale to be held on the 30th of April starts at the earlier time of 10am to ensure there is enough time to complete over 700 lots.

The sale features predominantly Star Wars lots, including carded, loose and boxed figures - including Graded figures; accessories, playsets, posters, jigsaws and comics. Lots include a large selection of Tri-logo carded figures, Ewoks and Droid series', Black Series, vintage Micro Collection and a fantastic collection of prototype resin master tooling aids.

Other items in the sale include Action Man and Tommy Gun, Dr Who, Masters of the Universe, Games Workshop, Electronic games and Lego.

There is also a fantastic collection of framed autographs from artists such as Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Elvis, The Jam, Madonna, Christopher Lee, Monty Python and James Bond related, in The North West Autographed Memorabilia Collection."

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Other Events

Saturday 27th-Sunday 28th April 2019

York - Discover Vintage Ltd. - Festival of Vintage (FOV)

York Racecourse, Racecourse Road, Knavesmire Road, York, Yorkshire, YO23 1EX

Web. - www.festivalofvintage.co.uk

Cars, dancing, music, stalls and style from the 1930's to the 1960's

Saturday 27th April 2019

Basingstoke - British car Auctions - BCA Thornycroft Day

Brookvale Village Hall, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 7RP

eMail - thornycroft@brookvale.org.uk

Tel. (1) - 01256 324 313

Tel. (2) - 01256 352 852

12:00 - 16:00hrs

Fundraiser and vintage transport

Model railways, kid's stuff, refreshments (a 'Mighty Antar' or two?)

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If you are an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model, collectable or popular-/youth-culture type sale/exhibition/event listed here -  FOR FREE  - or linked to; please eMail me -

maverickatlarge[at]hotmail[dot]com

- stating the date/s of the event, address of event, contact details, opening/viewing times, admission pricing and any other relevant facts/details or features - parking, travel notes, disability access, availability of refreshments, event subject matter &etc.

And please mention any flyer-art or poster-/leaflet-scans but send by separate eMail, in case they go to the 'junk' folder, from where they can be recovered and marked safe, but only if I know they're there!

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H is for How They Come In

Funny little bunch this week, I'm guessing rocket is Carlton, possibly a 'companion' with a larger action-figure? A Character Options sailor, an unknown cartoony F1 driver, another 'unknown' (blind bag?), called 'Maniac' and a Giochi Preziosi 'Gormiti' to add to their tub! I also picked up another board game today (Thurs.), but given other things it can wait.

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Skeletal Chinasaurs

These have been building-up in the WTF zone, a couple from Charity Shop lots, the rest from Jim and/or Chris and/or Peter Evans (thanks' chaps). Really only useful if 1) you collect unrealistic dinosaur skeletons (guilty as charged M'lud!), or 2) need a natural history museum ruin in your diorama (you never know - spares box!), or 3) are building a killer skeleton/undead army (oh yes!) . . . so actually, pretty useful really!

Three glow in the dark, two weathered wash and probably four sources? We may have seen one here in a Poundland purchase about nine-years ago?

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News Bites

Legoland - That new Lego amusement-park ride announced (here) a couple of weeks ago failed on its opening day and had to be closed 'due to technical issues'!

Brwreakshit - Which; the UK consumer affairs organisation warned that dangerous toys 'could flood into the UK' after Brexit, one hopes that it's over emphasising the risk, but it was one of the risks mooted three-years ago, the announcement was part of a urging of the Government to keep open the European 'safety gate'.

Murder - speaking of Brwreakshit and the steady rise in violent and hate crime over the last three years - Danny Bostock (33) has been jailed for life, after killing a fellow coin-collector for a Peter Rabbit 50p. Having stabbed the owner - Gordon McGhee -14 times he tried to destroy the crime scene with a gas explosion, risking the lives of neighbours; he won't be from the 'hard left' Mr. O'Connell?

Tom Karen - Czechoslovakian-born designer of the Raleigh 'Chopper' and Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder as head of the Ogle design studio, recently collected an OBE and said he was saddened by the modern toy industry.

Nintendo - Have announced two new gaming consoles - that'll mean more toys! The new models are budget and enhanced versions of their existing Switch console.

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Spare a thought for an old soldier (Military Cross, bar and cluster - not many of them around), he's currently fighting his last battle and it doesn't seem to be going terribly well, but knowing him as I do, I suspect it might all be part of his cunning plan to cheat The Ferryman out of a fare; it won't work, of course, but it's a good last wheeze and won't cost him an extra minute in either realm...

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