M is for ♪♪♫♪ Mamma Mia, Here He Goes Again, My-My, How Can I Desist Him? ♫♫♪♪

Oh yes! TJF thought to put paws to keyboard again in the matter of what I'm doing over here!

He started with a pirate ship which first appeared on a Faceplant group (to which we are both associated) back in 2021, and which then appeared here at Small Scale World in September of the same year (I'd been holding them for ITLAPD, and never comment on that poster's stuff) and again in 2022, so he's playing 'Simon says keep-up, catch-up!' there!

 

2021 - https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2021/09/b-is-for-big-boxed-buccaneers-black-boat.html

 

and:

 

2022 - https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2022/09/itlapd-is-for-its-that-long-assorted.html

It has, in fact, been around for some years and had several issues, in several territories, under a half-dozen importers and a plethora of phantom, or in-house brands!

 

Then he managed to spell Plastoy as Plastotoys, which he was literally copying/quoting from a two-week old magazine, in his hands! His stupidity is the gift that keeps on giving, his 'arse-torn-out' is still up there, after a couple of weeks! He was referring to the set we looked at here, a few months ago:

https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-is-for-additional-adventurers.html

Before showing us more new production from someone else's website, and a few figures of merit, he gets on to the nitty-gritty of the day, with the following puff-piece on my post of a few days ago, pertaining to Wing Wah and BMC:

https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2024/02/bmc-is-for-wing-wah-plastic-factory.html

We'll need the coloured crayons for a bit;

Hugh Walter in one of his latest posts talked about finding the BMC Alamo Mexicans on the card with a company name of Wing Wah. Well thank you! As I hardly provided empirical evidence for them being Wing Wah, you've obviously gone off and Googled them and found what was there all along! This card was sold in Greece. Was it? I said that, I might have been lying? You make it up all the time, after all! Don't worry Loyal Readers, I wasn't! He was confused about how the figures got to Greece. Err . . . "confused"? No, I gave the four possible scenarios from the available evidence, which were:

1. BMC licensed a 'generic' Wing Wah set
2. It was issued before BMC's involvement.
3. Wing Wah were just shifting stock behind BMC's back.
4. Wing Wah didn't have an 'exclusive' with BMC for the sculpts/production.
   

To clarify the situation I have to go to the conversations Laurie and I had with Bill McMasters of BMC Toys. Conversations he had more than ten or twenty years ago? With two dead people, and no empirical evidence? Given the level of memory he's shown us, in the past? But, we'll give him the benefit of the doubt! Bill told us he had an arrangement with a Chinese (in 1994 it was still very much a Hong Kong company, based in Hong Kong) company to produce playsets and figures. He provided the sculptures (the quality of the products hardly backs-up that hyperbole, but who are we to argue with a dead man?), box art (undoubtably), and other materials (do tell!). In return, he got an exclusive to sell the product in the United States. The Chinese [Hong Kong] company which we now know as Wing Wah from Hugh had the right to sell to the rest of the world. So the set from Greece is an example of that. As I said, it was?

 

So, firstly, if a 'legend' credits you, what does that make you? And secondly, I preferred my option-two, he is confirming option-four? It doesn't matter, I wasn't "confused", I was on the right tracks and hedging my bets against the available evidence. Now he's told us, we all know! But, it is both hearsay, and hyperbole!

And he's revealed how closely he follows this Blog, his post was two days ago, and I only posted the day before! And he's probably sent some extra traffic to the post, including - one hopes - those members of the PSTSM who are so loyal to The Jabbering Fuck, they really try not to follow my blog, even though the person who told them not to, clearly does . . . he's a very stupid man.

And while TJF also uses the term 'exclusive', generally, an 'exclusive-contract' is when the stuff can't be sold elsewhere, except by, or with the permission of the contractee, or under their logographies, it is in that context I used the word, and as such, was correct.

 

He (McMasters/BMC) didn't have an exclusive, the stuff was sold elsewhere, he had an embargo on- or memorandum of understanding with- Wing Wah for not shipping their product to the States, except in so far as it was for/marked-to BMC.

Bill did several of his playsets with this company until the owner died. The owner’s heirs had a falling out with Bill forcing him to find another company for his playsets. Americana Toy Soldiers came into Wing Wah and arranged to sell the old BMC product.

 

Ah, the red-letter moment! I'll just throw Wing Wah in there, like I knew all along! If you want to know what really happened, read the link at the end, as hinted-at above, TJF's got his memories in a twist!

To situation we will now call them Wing Wah soldiers the answer is no. They have been and will stay at BMC Toys. this is what the public know as well. This sentence is illiterate?

 

We can dispense with the colours now. what he's trying to say in that garbled last line, is pertaining to my red-letter comment, but he has already failed that, in a Godwin'esque fashion, by casually using the name in the previous sentence, as I had predicted people would, although in this case, he has already credited me with the origination!

The point I was making, was that those party's listed last time, would now refer to Wing Wah, when discussing the double-W logo, not the Alamo set specifically, not BMC in general, however as we have discovered before, his comprehension skill is very poor and is matched only by his ability to come to the wrong conclusion!

 

A logo which, prior to my post, some people had written absolute garbage about, tying it - falsely - into/with various other companies, and sometimes describing it - as fact - as a single W - Wello, Welly, Wentoys, Willco, etcetera!

Also, Americana didn't 'come into' Wing Wah, like the Airborne over Grenada! They got some stock, probably through an agent! Wasn't Imex involved at one point? I'd have to go look at tedious files to answer that myself, and it really doesn't matter!

 

Elsewhere (globally: the rest of the world! He's talking about a few hundred American collectors as if the rest of us don't count!), it would have remained Wing Wah, and that may even apply to my Greek set, by dates, I don't know, and I don't really care, the point of the post was identifying Wing Wah, period. Not the intricate, yet inconsequential, vagaries of global shipping programs for bagged, carded or boxed rack-toy import/exports! And to a Greek collector they ARE Wing Wah, as issued by BMC in the 'States!

 

I suspect, eventually we will find that in the UK we got both, with toy-soldeir dealers shipping from BMC, after reading about them in the Winter 1994 edition of Plastic Warrior magazine (issue No. 46), while independent convenience stores would have been getting WW-marked or generic sets from down the Hong Kong rack-toy pipeline, possibly earlier?!

I don't know why he keeps doing this, it's only a week or two since he got - as fact - a figure completely wrong, yet here he is trying to correct me, when I was correct? It's pathetic, it's stupid, and it's destroying any 'legacy' he thought he had? This tired, sad old man, shouting nonsense into the wind!

And then, when it can't get any better on the International Idiocy Scale, the cockwacking monkey-lizard popped up and said this;

I have the pirate ship but with two different poses inside.
I found mine at a theme park few years back .
Thanks for making clarification in the BMC history .
Is always great to set the facts straights rather than assumptions or made out tales run around free .

 

Yes! Yes, it is illiterate funk! He spaffed his pocket-money on some words from a dodgy geezer in the car-lot behind the diner, and then glued them together blindfold, it's a good effort! It's like a mutual-appreciation society of fuckwits, they never land their punches, and then I rip them to shreds, again! Even their fans must be getting bored with it now?

Some imagery from Bill B's 1987 trade catalogue. Yes, I've been sitting on it for years, I keep telling you there's about 800-and-something articles in the long queue, and yes, TJF should have learnt by now that whenever I reveal/reacquaint the hobby with one of these Hong Kong producers, there is usually more than one post to come!

 

You will note there are similarities with the output of both Rado Industries (Ri-Toys, the landing craft) and Kwong Shing-KS-Kamley-Kositoys (the aircraft and Chieftain tank), but sometimes when you study them next to each other, there are subtle differences, different wheels, different release-pin marks, dimensions &etc. Equally, they bought and sold this junk to each-other, or from third-parties, to make up the sets, so while it is my hope, one day, to attribute some of it, more definitively, that's still a big "We will see?"!

 

In the meantime, bog-standard Airfix figure piracies, with various accessories, which by the mid-1980's were starting to look like the tired 1970's fare they were! And the brighter among you will have noticed the base-undersides of the Wing Wah Alamo figures, bear a resemblance to the Crescent copy ceremonials we looked at a while ago, and some of the Herald ACW copies out there, could they (factory painted) be earlier product of Wing Wah?

 

There's not enough evidence to call it, but it's food-for-thought . . . for the thoughtful, not for idiotic morons like TJF and his sidekick!

 

And I should add that all the above, and everything in the previous post pertains to the previous iteration of BMC, under the leadership of the late Mr. McMasters, and not the current iteration of BMC (VictoryBuy Inc.) with Jeff Imel at the helm, he bought the intellectual property of the older firm, and others, and probably some late stock, but the improved Alamo figures are re-sculpts (2018'ish?), with new bases, and no aspersions are intended to be cast on the new BMC by either post.

 

And Mr. Imel explains it all somewhat more clearly than Mr. Stadinger, here:

 

https://warhorseminiatures.com/2017/09/04/an-interview-with-jeff-imel-and-the-return-of-bmc-toys/

R is for Return - to Hing Fat!

It's funny; TJF has been posting the same things I've recently posted all spring and through into the summer, always following the 'less is . . . err . . . less' rule of proving with no help from anyone (despite lots of help!) that he's not a legend, of any kind, well; maybe a legendary idiot!

The funniest incident was after I did four posts on Jean Wild West and copies, only for him to show us three figures . . . in two shots! A post in which he started by hinting my theory on the moulds might be wrong, but ended-up sort of saying it might be right - in other words; a totally pointless and unnecessary post, which was dripping with cowardice, lacking any moral fibre and ethically questionable.

The weirdest incidence of which (usually it's a single-figure box-ticking exercise) was when he had two days on Hing Fat . . . because I'd had two days on Hing Fat! Insecure - or what?

Back on the 1st of May I did a post on divers which was ostensibly about the Lone Star divers and some of the copies, but we looked at a few other things, and Hing Fat got a mention, as a result there was a follow-up specifically on Hing Fat on the 2nd - always bearing in mind this is A) pretty shite 'rack-toy' stuff and B) mostly-/pretty-contemporary production.

This lead - on the 4th of May, to JTF dancing with ape-men! I've cropped this out of the website's image, TJF did the same, but cropped tight to the cavemen set, this then gave his shitter of a sidekick an excuse to wax lyrical in his trusted manner (relatively incomprehensible) about the Terracotta warriors and some jobbers thus;

"The HF figures come or show first since late 2019 with the terracotta Chinese warriors and two other rests .So far appear not be distributed here yet as far Steven international and DD distributor for main hobby have none yet ,The APE MAN appear to looks as DFC former caveman copies or extracted poses from ..

my thoughts ."

Now, the first point to make is that the webpage is actually dated . . . to January 2016 (international Toy Fair season), not 'late 2019' as he informs us with his usual as-fact making it up as he goes along again prose!

Second, the page (which is almost certainly the artwork from that year's printed catalogue) doesn't show 'two other rests' (I'm assuming he means sets), it shows eight in total.

So he knew the Terracotta Warriors were there, but forgot the rest . . . despite the fact that they were still - and remain - online? Anyway, and in the meantime an innocent (? Or plant) commenter posted a link to the webpage, rather taking the wind out of their sales, but providing the excuse for a second post on the subject, you see . . . if I can have two posts on it; so can they!

This turn of events produced an almost identical comment from the jabberwocky jerk-off, being equally as incomprehensible, yet covering the same main points;

"They looks like have ape heads in body copies poses of former DFC brand cavemen and some variation of then ,they looks interesting still .
So far main two distributor(D&D and Stevens international hobby)here have not distribute then ,but are available from Alibaba express at bulk purchase with very obscure photo again
Will see where they pup up .i’m more interested in terracotta figures set"

Now, the whole exercise raises a couple of relevant points beyond the fact the TJF often acts stupid in a post to apparently facilitate Erwin's wanking-lyrical in the comments; a sort of pre-arranged planting or reverse entrapment!

Firstly neither D&D nor Stevens are 'Main' anything, being a couple of run-of-the-mill jobbers, The main importers - were one to feel compelled to make a list, rather than just making it up as one went along - would have Imperial, Jaru or Amscan ahead of both, and - as we have seen here - the Greenbriar/DTSC cross-border partnership is another who are very busy, as are SCS Direct, Hunsen/JPW, OKK and that little group of brands round Fun Express/OTC, there's Funtastic . . . he is literally dribbling unsubstantiated garbage for the sake of seeing his own voice on the Internet!

But . . . doing so as fact, with the support of Stadinger, and as a result damaging the hobby. Damage such luminaries as Dittmann, Bergner and Carrick are happy to turn a blind eye to, in order to justify their side-taking in a war started by the two miserable muppets.

Secondly, had either of them bothered to visit Hing Fat's Faceplant page they would have found exactly how the figures look, and that they look nothing like the Dimensions for Children (became MTC) figures! This image was dated 10th May 2016, i.e. later the same year as the webpage.

Of interest to us as I think we've seen those red-yellow pterodactyls here at Small Scale World before now, in a generic bagged-set being sold at the seaside?

So, in less than 70-words, repeated twice in a different order (but equally illiterate) he manages [as fact] to miss-attribute the importance of two jobbers, get the date wrong by three years (despite the correct date being handed to him twice - if he looked) and suggest a false origin for the figures! All so that they could look as if they can do whatever I'm doing?

Does TJF think these follow-me's are clever? Does he really think they are somehow victories, of some kind? Is he awarding himself Brownie-points in his own head - toward the Girl Guide's Annual Jamboree 'I beat that Walters' badge? he didn't know an Emenee figure the other day (a couple of weeks after I Blogged the coach set - fancy that huh!), yet has been credited with being instrumental in the finding of the original information? Too stupid.

This would have scored half-a-point - had they bothered to notice it! On the same page were/are American Footballers being offered as Rugby Football players, presumably aimed at buyers from an ex-colonial, English-speaking market, despite the body-armour and grid-iron helmets!

As it happens I agree with him (the cockwackin' monkey-lizard) on the Terracotta Army figures, but anyone who's dealt with Hing Fat will tell you; you have to put in huge orders, multiples of thousands of units, so these may never see the light of day, because if someone like Bill V didn't, or BMC won't order them, no one will.

Aimed at museums, most of the bottom row on that webpage are probably going nowhere, but a large organisation like the Met' or the UK's British Museum, or one of the larger natural history museums might order enough - there's a nice-looking Mummy in the Egyptian-themed set?

The sports sets may struggle for the same reason - lack of fan-base and no one willing to take a punt, those days when the Toysaurus ordered 10,000 units of everything on the page are long gone, and people like Smyths (here) don't stock the cheapies, while Walmart, Target and co., haven't fully picked-up the baton yet.

The date was staring them in the face; they made up a new one!

The facts were staring them in the face; they invented some rubbish!

A small story was staring them in the face; they ignored it!

We are going to spend the rest of today, looking at Hing Fat stuff the derisible-duo could have run a story on, which might have scored some points, in some idiot's head.

I is for the Idiots Idiotocracy and Their Idiot's Idiocy

There are a few idiots in the hobby, and while - as I've pointed out in the past - they are and remain a small minority of the hobby, they are also quite vocal, fortunately - for the rest of us - they all congregate around the shitstuff Blog like a cloud of flies on a dog-shit.

The Idiot-in-Chief; the Jabbering Fuck has surpassed himself recently and we're going to look at his nonsense today.

On the 27th January he wrote the following to justify his earlier vileness . . .

I don't know why he centred the text, he clearly thought it was of above-average importance or something? Anyway we will deal with it line-by-line as always; far better to quote empirically than to make it up as you go along! And we'll do the quotes in shit-brown as he has shown himself to be a douche-bag.

In my post Odds Ends Toy Trade Shows Preview, I greatly upset someone (no he didn't; he disgusted me for the reason we will come on too) with the use of the words in a timely manner.

What I was saying that I would get my reports on the various toy trade shows out quickly as I could. This person last year stretched his reports on a toy trade show. for several months. That person was me, and - in the first instance - I took three months off Blogging while my farther passed away and was buried. He's a very nasty man.

There are three items we can not delay reporting (says a pompous git as if he's seen it written in stone by Moses! And it should be 'cannot'): new figure news, collectible toy shows, and toy trade fairs.

Let's deal with those one at a time;

new figure news - new figures, by their very nature are going to be around for a while, and therefore there is no urgency whatsoever. It's nice to learn about their issue, say on the company's website, or their Faceplant page, or even on a Blog, but a few days or a few weeks delay will not ruin your day, nor mine!

What he really means here is he will try (and often fail) to competitively Blog against people not consciously competing with him, by reposting stuff from Faceplant or the companies' own websites, after they have been posted there - where they were done so, in a more timely manner!

collectible toy shows - Well, as I have posted some 2000+ events before they happened in the last 24-odd months, so that you can get to them if you wish . . . and Mr. Stadinger has told us of around . . . phfff . . . forty (?) events in the same time period; half of them after they have happened, so you couldn't have attended them if you might have wanted to, any intended criticism here would seem to apply far more to him than to me? So we have hypocrisy, a bit of a lie and the wittering of a very stupid man.

Not that I'm encouraging him to try copying yet another Small Scale World trope - we all know he would do it poorly - although better coverage of the North American circuit would be useful, my listings are - naturally - UK-centric; I'm only highlighting the bullshit emanating from this lumpen oaf.

Let me reiterate here . . . I give you 7-20+ event-dates, ahead of time, every week, with links, he gives you one or two a month, often after the event, often without a link. He's a very stupid man!

toy trade fairs - the same criticism applies equally, not only did I notify readers of the London fair two days before Stadinger (both this year AND last year) but I got my overview out days earlier too . . . both years!

And in the case of both announcements and overviews, they were held-over for the regular Friday 'News, Views . . . ' posts, so if the lazy mother-fucker that is TJF had been minded to get his out in a more 'timely manner' he could have, but he didn't, in fact he waited until I'd posted (17th Jan.), reminding him (annually) it's time for him to take my posts as his trigger to start pontificating in reaction, this year on the 18th!

Further, my overview (24th Jan.) was what I had seen/experienced the previous Wednesday, his overview (27th) was four links to leading toy maker's own websites, a trope he stole from my post of the 21st January, where I was making the point that these posts are not the be-all-and-end-all he's talking them-up to be? While last year my post was similarly a 'walked' site-report while his was regurgitated, second-hand news.

He then tried to write-up the Airfix site's news, forgetting that company websites are sales sites, and often talk shit! The Sherman Firefly and 'new' Tiger have been announced more often than the end of the world, and I (like Airfix) announced the 1:35th series a year ago (slightly more 'timely mannered' than the jabbering fuck) and pointed out that A) they were only drawings, and B) might never happen. I.E. the only original copy in his overview was old hat!

Let me reiterate here . . . he is bitching that I "dragged-out" my 12 or so posts . . . he did one . . . it came after my initial overview . . . and was itself, a generic overview! He's a very stupid man!

At one-time toy trade shows were showing products that would be out for the Christmas holiday. Today, the products are coming throughout the year. An example of this is the figure on the left. He is Bane from Batman being done by Spinmaster. He is part of a thirteen figure blind bag series. The figures are out now.so I will have ('have' Hahahah! Pompous idiot!) to report on them. Again he twists and wriggles on the hook he's forged for himself! Using the exception (blind-bags) to prove the rule; most of the stuff debuted at the Spring Fairs IS destined for the Christmas market! The Bill & Ted board game (already blogged) is a mock-up, looking for orders, if it appears, it will be in time for Christmas, same with the Airfix 1:35th-stuff - it's waiting for a favourable market . . . or better finances at the parent Co.!

The companies also often show their standard ranges just to remind the buyers they are there! He (Standinger)'s talking shit as if he has half-a-clue what he's spouting!

Sadly items that have to be reported in a timely manner do not allow excuses. This is an illiterate garbage-sentence, apparently constructed from random words, that's makes no sense, to the point where it's hard to even guess at the point he's trying to make? Naughty 'reported items'; someone should punish them!

If this other person had ignored my comment as I ignored his profanity lace comments, he would not have defended himself. Arch-twisting now; I have stated that I won't make the same promise as him (to ignore me), so he should have expected a rebuttal, while he KEEPS saying he's going to ignore me, only to keep coming back with another cheap comment, or copy post, more lies, more hypocrisies!

And we have both a lie and a hypocrisy here as he clearly isn't ignoring me, in the line of the post were he says he is! The man's a blithering idiot . . . although Man's a bit strong, the 'infantile man-child's a blithering idiot!

Instead, he took offense and has responded with vicious attacks. As I've said I always will and therefore; as was to be expected! If I ignore him, he gets worse, we've seen it before.

All I was stating a fact I learned in doing my printed lists and carried over to doing my postings on the internet. Self-regarding, self-absorbed verbal diarrhea, bigging-up his opinion of himself! And as we can see; no 'fact's above - just pontificating, self-justifying bullshit.

Attempting to justify the fact that in posts which also name Dr. Adreas Dittmann and Peter Bergner of PB Toys (among others) he, Paul Stadinger, attacked me with a bitch-kick, suggesting that by taking time-out to bury a parent, I was 'dragging-out' posts.

Anther hypocrisy - Those posts I 'dragged out', were extra-to the Toy Fair 2019 overview, and were posts Stadinger never had, never has, as, having pompously told us he would be reporting from London, Nuremburg and New York, last year; he actually gave us one rather bitty overview (in a less 'timely manner' than me) and nothing else!

I always take lots of photographs, speak to the 'toymen' (and toywomen!), collect a shed-load of catalogues, the odd sample and produce a number of follow-up posts, very few of which are time-sensitive and get placed among the other output of the blog to - hopefully - keep the mix fresh!

While this gobshite-arsehole, talking shit, tries to be me, or tries to make his Blog look like/sound like my Blog (as opposed to any other), by sitting in my dust! AND - Mr Lickshit, Mr Dildobrand Hildabreath (or Deadleaf Hairband as someone called him the other day!), Doctor Dittmann, Mr. Bergner . . . he does it so badly . . . WITH your help!

Are you all happy to be associated with his making capital out of my father's death? Well, then; you're all arseholes?

What is the Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen's policy on your association with this filth Andreas? I mean; if you're all happy with the situation, I'll start putting you, your department and the university in the Search Engine Optimisation of all Stadinger/Sell rebuttals, so we can get it all pushed up the good-old Google page-rankings?

Now - let us now go back to the 25th January . . .

I Am a Collector, despite what one sad man thinks. He's not a collector, he's a dealer, he's obviously retained a few bits, as we've seen, but one of these, one of those and one Timpo 8th Army does not a collection make and his output remains poor because he doesn't have the 'stuff'. Nothing wrong with poor output, there are lots of mediocre Blogs out there, lots of small collections, but don't start fights you can't win! (He even wrote a silly song (It is a measure of his humourlessness (which we've seen before) and lack of cultural references (which we've seen before) that he thinks Ms. Sinatra's big hit is a 'silly song' and while I'd love to take the credit for it, it was actually written by Lea Hazelwood, I just engineered the parody. He should put that in his little black book!) with a lyric saying I am not.) Besides that, I am a writer (If he was a 'writer' he wouldn't have placed the preceding sentence in brackets after a full stop!) ( I have epublished one book with two more to be formatted), an untrained ventriloquist, and dealer among other jobs (I doubt he's done a day's hard work in his life!). Most dealers like myself started the same way. I enjoy being a dealer as I can find items for people and myself.

His eBook has (and I've mentioned it before) so many syntax, grammar, spelling, punctuation and lower case-v-capitalisation errors (some 57 if memory serves) in its introduction, only a retard would pay the $4.49 to read the work itself. And what does he mean '...to be formatted'? You format discs to clean them, you format lists, tables or web-pages to follow a pattern, or system, but you edit a novel!

'Untrained ventriloquist'? Is that like an untrained brain-surgeon, or an untrained explosives expert? Untrained banker? I now have a vision of him operating Erwin Sell by shoving his forearm where the sun don't shine! Gime Gerwin Gell! DeeGheeEnn, DeeGheeEnn, day ere galled DeeGheeEnn! Get a gottle o'geer gor Gewrwin!

Sigh . . . we go back to January 23rd

One thing I like on the internet is we can not only share items with friends, but with others. People can find out about new items or remember having them. This is being accomplished through my site, Facebook, and other places. The sharers have done across various platforms or exclusive to one site. Never should anyone degrade a person for staying exclusive with one site over theirs.

I couldn't - on first read - work out what point he was trying to make here, as it reads like a bit of a self-justifying whine to his own ego, in public? But further study suggests it is a whine about my including of such luminaries as Shitstick and Hairbreath in my rebuttals of the endless stream of botty-burps from JTF and his fuck-monkey Sell?

Well, let's get a few things straight here, shall we?

After TJF's original attack on me (17th December 2016) some of his friends thought to comment in an equally-derogatory fashion in the comments, as they again did in another attack on me a week or so later.

I responded to them with the same veracity (or was it voracity!!!) I had done to Standinger and Erwin's risible nonsense, after the Christmas, in a series of rebuttals - I wasn't going to ruin the holiday by stooping to the level of the PSTSM's slime-balls.

It took a few more exchanges of salvoes for most of them to learn that if they stayed out of it, I stayed off their case . . . not that they had originally had a 'case', all the efforts of the terrible two'o in those two December posts were based upon a litany of lies, falsehoods and misappropriation . . . oh; and an invented 'quote'!

In the meantime, I have never suggested any entity or website, not even stadsshite, shouldn't have its supporters, even exclusive ones, and I don't attack many of Stadinger's supporters in my rebuttals, if they haven't harmed me, have stayed out of 'the war' or were there from the start, and it would be arrogant of me to do otherwise.

I wouldn't - for instance - put fake comments purporting to be from one of his supporters on my Blog? Stadinger can't make the same claim! Nor - for that matter - have I ever suggested anyone 'come over', I've just suggested they stay on the bloody fence.

But . . . and it's a valid 'but'; Merkle Littlewick and Deadbeat Herder both 'got off the fence' after Stadinger's initial attack on me, and both continually help the loudmouthed blowhard in his efforts to 'be me', and by doing so have made themselves legitimate targets.

The other day we had Dildabreath Hardbrick getting together with Stadinger to lie about show purchases in order to confirm what I'd said two day earlier about palm-trees, a pointless move, but dishonest - fake, phony, frauds . . . very stupid men.

And if you are going to fake stuff for an unclear reason which is - nevertheless - clearly aimed at baiting me, you will earn my opprobrium - don't then act all-surprised! Stupid!

Likewise if Doctor the Professor Dittmann and Mr Bergner are happy to be named in, or contribute to, posts attacking me, they have to accept the consequences, especially if those posts involve my dying father.

AND . . . the only person who has called for any Blog to 'not exist' is TJF, who suggested I "go and do something else" back at the start of his war with me - more hypocrisy! He's a very stupid man.

It's been a new low at shitestuff over the last week or so . . .

 January 18th "We will report it and other items in a timely manner not dragging it out six months"

. . . which we now know was designed by Stadinger to provoke me and the Germans were in the thick of it. I never involve this (Small Scale World) Blog's supporters in these 'spats', but Stadinger does everything he can to involve other people and some of them . . . let him?

Stadinger, the Jabbering Fuck, is a spoilt brat, with little self-awareness and an over-developed sense of his own self-importance and entitlement, who constantly tries to big-up his presence in the hobby, by bleating-on about his lists (long-gone and not very good) and his Frontpage page (a litany of his fallings-out with other people in the hobby!), while sitting turd-like in his lair waiting for his idiot followers' to help him prove he is . . . who he actually isn't. He's a very unpleasant man.

It made me laugh the other day when they started arguing over whether another dealer was a bottom-feeder or not, oblivious to the irony of the moment or the fact that they're all bottom-feeders! They're very stupid.

His Blog has no 'voice' (beyond a grey monotone tedium!) because he has so little 'stuff', so little imagination, so little originality and so little vision beyond trying to do something, or get someone else to do something for him, in the next few days, or week or two, which might perchance strive to look a bit like that there Small Scale World!

Everything at shitesuff, the re-posting of Faceplant or company-website stuff, the digs at Small Scale World, the posting of single figures following posts or subjects posted here days or weeks earlier, even to last weeks shenanigans about Toy Fair 2019, is 'reactive' to what I'm doing, even to the point where if I take time off, he takes time off! He's very transparent.

They don't copy any other blog, and that's because whatever I'm doing, I'm doing right, and you know it, because you're here every day - so are they!

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Corrections & Clarifications

This is a new 'experimental' section of the Small Scale World Blog, but if it proves popular we'll try to run it once a month or so - There's plenty of material, this is the tip of the iceberg!

'DGN'

There is no such company as DGN, no empirical evidence or primary source-material has surfaced yet, nor have any internet links been provided by those who wish you to believe in this imagination-station's existence.

It is [one of] the abbreviation(s) for 'Design' now found on the bases of figures by three different makers, at some point the idiocy will have to be admitted, and starting to use it again is sillier than my song lyrics!

Britains Deetail WWII German Mortar Crew

Seen on Small Scale World err . . . twice in the last ten years, but not, as far as I can recall - in a UK magazine yet?

Target Stores

It has been suggested to Small Scale World by Leanne  at Target's HR, that Mr. Erwin Sell is not an Operations Manager (DC level - whatever that is!) for the company and that therefore his comments pertaining to Target or its agents do not represent the company, its thoughts, policy or future plans.

Someone making stuff up as they go along again? Perhaps OM DC stands for operator, manual; duty-cleaner . . . dish cloth . . . dickheaded clodbrain?

Unknown Spaceman

As told here at Small Scale World, in increments, over time, with full acknowledgements to other sources or contributors, the figures were originally issued as rack-toy party favours by Party Pig, re-surfaced in 25mm as Tombola chocolate-egg capsule prizes and have recently turned-up as a smaller pose-sample in green from Fun Express (apart from Tombola - all using the same zip-code) by Chaihai, as Easter gift-eggs. Fancy neither of them knowing that when at least one of them is following Small Scale World so closely he thought to tell everyone he'd be following me 'very' closely!

Although Erwin's ex-evilBay image added a little to the whole and he has promised to give us a fuller rendition of his knowledge, let's hope he credits his sources! Hahahaha! Not a fucking chance!

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Forthcoming

Coming to Small Scale World between now and . . . err . . . whenever! Hopefully by the end of September, or earlier . . . or later, or not at all! None of it is terribly time-sensitive, if at all? And some of it may never appear as a TF2020 report; it really doesn't matter? I look forwards to the equivalent 48-odd posts appearing earlier on stadsshite in a "timely manner" though!

And yes! Stadinger will use this image to try and do spoilers, but my output is so far removed from him and his acolyte's idiotocracy, it makes no difference, when he does manage one! It just makes him look smaller and more pathetic.

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These posts are getting to be a tedious chore, but I did say back at the beginning (winter of 2017) that it would take five-and-a-half years, and we are still only just over three years into the lunacy - only encouraged by the inaction of people who should know better - so there's a couple of years or so, still to go, before I start to look inaccurate!

T is for Toy Fair 2019 Reports - Tobar & Schylling - Tin Plate, Rack Toys, Novelties and Die Cast

I say Schylling, but it was Tobar's stand, just that they have a close relationship with Schylling in the US (not Germany Mr. Sell; definitely not Germany) and carry each other's stuff, they also both import from Supreme (SP Toys) but more on that in a minute.

The main direction of the tie-up this year is a range of retro tin-plate, these may well be from the same source as the tin-plate tree-hangers carried by both Shylling and Ingo Roggaz's ^Z_Z (not George Zimmermann Mr. Dildobrand; definitely not Zimmermann) back in the 1990's? Particularly the small hot-air balloons? The duck on a tricycle is a timeless novelty, while the three robots cover all the tropes of their 1950's forbears.

Radio Control is getting very interesting, with new digital tech', miniaturisation and lessons learnt in the mini-drone sector being converged into smaller and more sophisticated toys at affordable prices, here a set of two 'firing' tanks are more traditional, while who could resist a digger which digs!

On the subject of construction vehicles; Maisto (a Thai-centered, US headquartered group of Chinese factories and brands) who I think now own the Bburago name (ex-Italian; Mebetoys) are another one probably coming to Tobar via Schylling or as a joint-purchase with Schylling; and here we see various die-cast construction sets in two scales and several formats along with dinosaur play sets.

Counter-display cases of more traditional clockwork wind-up and squirty-toys! Not really 'my thing' but it's nice to see these things still out there; they are the 'meat & two veg.' of toy sellers; the everyday earners.

I thought this was a lot of fun; a mini or nano-bot cockroach, with a very small motor driving (or jiggling) tiny hidden legs to propel a larger 'rubber-jiggler' shell across surfaces - what's not to like?

You can tell from the above that there wasn't much to excite plastic figure collectors on their stall this year, but it just so happened that the managing Director of Schylling was on the stall at the same time as me, and the lady from Tobar offered to get me a slot with him, I explained he probably wouldn't want a farty, middle-aged, toy-collector/Blogger trying to confirm or deny Erwin's bullshit with him (slightly more politely than I've just written-it, of course - I know how to behave in public!), however she confirmed that both companies import from Supreme (indeed; looking at Supreme's 1986 HKTDC year-book advert', the cockroach may well be theirs), have done for years and that Supreme are a stand-alone toy manufacturer.

[latter offices: Room 504-507, Tower B, New Mandarin Plaza, 14 Science Museum Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong]

Now most of you already know this, it is - after all - a good decade since Plastic Warrior magazine was carrying editorial provided by Tiger Hobbies on their importation of Supreme's 60mm figures, and longer since the figures were first covered there.

Tiger had through the 1980/90's being importing the first series 54mm knights and Wild West (Deetail style bases) with Strawberry Group (who further worked with 3-D Licensing) and (or alongside) Toy Major, Simba carried them too. While Ackerman and Halsal/HTI are known importers of Supreme, as are Titan, while they are now also re-packed for on-line platform Sunjade and, through Schylling via-Tobar, are - as I write - now probably in Hawkin's Bazaar?

Yet Erwin, who, electing to start pontificating only in 2015, and who clearly wasn't around to read 'from the horse's mouth' a decade ago, has decided to make Supreme his second favourite go-to brand-mark for bullshitting-about - after Blue Box!

He has variously claimed Simba 'designed' Supreme figures "...first" (with no quoted source or empirical evidence), that Supreme are actually Schylling (while trying to flog his own Schylling stock), that Supreme are a sub'er for Sunjade (when the opposite is probably true, despite Supreme having their own wholesale unit) or sub' for Schylling (who admit the opposite) and that Supreme are 'just' an exporter and x all else. Oh . . . and that Schylling - with a 'y' - are German! And while his utterances are spread over many comments, posted over four years - he managed to repeat most of them in the single comment above!

I could do a word-by-word autopsy with lots of screen-cap's, but this isn't the post, suffice to say wherever you find Mr Sell pontificating on any of the above, know that he doesn't know what he's talking about! They are all getting this product from an old, established Hong Kong toy maker; Supreme/SP Toys. Luckily for the hobby most of his nonsense-utterances are hidden in Shitestuff's comments or on the locked Vichy-forum; both places ignored by the Googlebots - phew!