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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 Debenhams. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

E is for Executive Mini Racetrack

Another board-game and the sort of over-priced shite you find in mail-order catalogues or airport departure 'mall' boutique type shops, yet - being all wood and metal - the direction all toys should try to go in!

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Lacking the finesse of an old Victorian or Edwardian game of the same ilk, it's probably laser-cut and machine-manufactured, it was next-to-nothing in a charity shop a while ago, but it missed the adding of such purchases to a Friday date-post and rather got stuck in the limbo of Picasa's queue!

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I've kept the six race horses and riders, the three obstacles, the two dice and the pannel-pin with ball-finial, and I managed to prise the central 'hedge' off, so may use it for photographing HO-OO stuff one day, but the rest of the board and the box helped start a fire back in March I think!

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One of the figures was still in a little bag, whether this means they were all individually wrapped, or if it was a spare, I don't know, but you will have seen in the previous image, there's only room for four to sensibly start a race at the same time?

Number stickers were factory applied and all six horses are a slightly different colour, I don't know how likely that is to be 'meant' or how much is due to batch decoration, but suspect there should be three silver/gunmetal and three antiqued/gold-finish?