C is for Civilian Contributions

I think these are all from Peter Evans, a mix of convenience store finds, car-boot sale's plunder, and the odd visit to the Toy Project store in North London, and they were in three folders, although they are in the order I shot them, which is vaguely the order they came in!

 

Fireman Sam figurines, from Simba, blind-boxed, there were a bunch of these, and I've saved them for another post another day, but here's a sample, with boxes, bag and figures, manufactured in a modern, PVC replacement, and quite nicely done I thought? And they seem to be clearance from a German series, you can find English language versions

 

Nice unknown firefighter with the 'jaws of life', a Corgi fireman from the Simon Snorkel, and a 'Christmas Village' figure - I've already promised myself I'm never going to try and annotate all of them, but hopefully by the time I get round to the A-Z pages, there will be enthusiasts pages to link to!

 

The other figure is from the Teamsterz sets, and is the third of four road menders (the other two came from Peter too), and I was only sorting them the other day, I now have four firefighters, four police, and with this, three road crew, although we may have seen the other in a shelfie at some point; I'm not sure how well they've been Tagged!

 

Another set of firefighters, red, is, as always, a bugger to photograph, but I suspect six of six poses from a rack-toy set, and not one we've seen before?

 

Funny, I found the post where these (Poundland?) wrestlers were shelfied on the cards, the other day, looking for something else, and, at the time, I said something along the lines of, they'll come in in mixed lots in a few years, and, indeed they are starting to turn-up, these aren't the first we've seen I think, just the first since I saw that old comment!

 

I need to sort all these out, but some are to hand, some are deeper in the unit, so it'll have to wait for another day, but I think we've now seen them all in both sizes, and all of them, bar the smaller set, with packaging, from three or four brands/brand marks (here PME), in teams of three-a-side with a referee, and seven-a-side, no referee!

 

This is interesting, and a nice box ticker, but these are the poor quality Hong Kong/China copies, commissioned by Hornby Hobbies, of their own, better-quality Scalextric product, from the previous Lines-Triang iteration, with a loss of details and basic painting. When the pit crew had matching cardigans!

 

More for the unknown seated/rider zone, except I know the big one is Tudor Rose, and he's in the folder I mentioned the other day as sliding into the long-queue, I'll dig him out as a follow-up!

 

Despite being in two colours these seem to be from the same set, and again would appear to be new to Blog? Although possibly copies of others we have seen already.

 

Cakeboards bowls playing cake decorations, I don't know if they are still going but they seem to have produced quite a few of these resin figures, between about fifteen and eight years ago? The missing sliver of the lady's hat is in the bag, so must have broken off on the journey back to Hampshire, I'll get it glued back on! We've actually seen her before, sans hand!

 

Compare this ice-cream or snack vendor from Scalextric, with the featureless figures above, I've never fully got my head round these, because as well as various generations, painted and unpainted, hard 'styrene and soft 'ethylene, there seems to be a set of scaled-down figures as well, and I've never understood where they fit in the line.

 

Next to him is a Timpo policeman, and I'm not sure which of the set I have, which I need, this one's leaning a bit, had a wee dram against the cold of a night-shift! Unknown motorcyclist, probably from an Hong Kong plastic jobbie around 1:25th, and another anonymous construction/road worker.

 

These might go with the four figures above, they were in the same lot?

 

And to finish, some smaller chaps, being three more of the Hornby plastics, which with the ones the other day is most of a loose set in a few weeks! A Dinky police officer and another Merit platform staff, moving a milk churn. Tanks again to Peter for all these, more useful stuff, and more images for loyal readers!

F is for Fireman Pat, the Paw Patrol Builder

There's a ton of this infant oriented stuff out there, and in scanning the shelves I tend to filter it out, what with the American knock-off of Tomas the Tank engine starting to make inroads to British shelves, and Postman Pat now joined by similarly-cloned builders and firefighters (still called 'firemen', shock-horror!), even if you could argue Pugwash or Mr. Ben came first!

 

But luckily, Brian Berke spotted these in the 'States a while ago, and they've been in edit since . . . checks images . . . 2024, in fact, June, so two years ago, and well overdue for an outing here. Also, while flat erasers aren't necessarily a thing, we have had similar robots and dinosaurs, so by default, they are part of the Small Scale World oeuvre now! The law of unintended consequences!

 

 

Apparently direct-from-Turkey imports, or is that a version of Arabic? Zaini (LZ) are well known as a Kinder rival, and we've seen a few figural efforts or vehicles from them over the years, the likely prizes as illustrated on the box, weren't in the box! But do include two figures who may turn-up in mixed lots someday?

 

Instead you got flat-slab erasers with water-slide transfer-printed images of the characters from Fireman Sam on them, credited to a Prism Art & Design Ltd.* Many thanks to roving reporter Brian, for roving, and reporting!

 

*According to the Fireman Sam wiki - "Prism Art & Design Limited is a Welsh entertainment company currently owned by HiT Entertainment, itself a subsidiary of Mattel" - so, wheels within wheels! 

B is for Brucey Bonus - More Phidal!

A few recent shelfies of Phidal stuff in TKMaxx I wouldn't bother with if I found them in a charity shop or at a car boot sale, and a few odds I think are also Phidal.

We saw a quite nice My Little Pony set as a shelfie from Brian, which appeared to have stuff likely to prove useful to fantasy war-gamers or role-players, I suspect this set's contents are more chunky, cartoony figurines.

The other three are run-of-the-mill licensed stuff, likely to be larger animals, small trains and a mix of figures and sub-scale vehicles, I didn't study the backs of the tomes; where those clues lye!

Other probable Fidal's, the Disney Infinity character I'm now sur of (haven't confirmed the Minions though), likewise the superhero, who is tatty and damaged, but I think the two girls (big hands?) from Scooby Doo are early Phidal, their markings are right and I have seen a more recent Scooby set in TKMaxx, so Phidal obviously carry the licence?