Originally sent in by Konrad Lesiak as examples of his recent purchases,
there are three different sets of figures represented in these shots;
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a Disney 'Frozen' Prince on the far right of both line-ups - there seem to
be at least three different sets of these capsule toys/capsule-type toys around
at the moment, one set was covered complete in Plastic Warrior magazine; I
think I looked at another here on the Blog and this chap would appear to be
from a third.
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In the middle are what look to be three TV-related figures, Konrad reports
they are marked TM
& © '05 Fox Made in China, which I assume is
Fox TV? Can anyone ID them?
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The other pair looked both
interestingly like 'designer toys' with a kaiju/manga look, and slightly
familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on them? So I told Konrad I'd pop them
into 'News, Views . . . ' and see if anyone could help.
Konrad has provided the markings on one of his
as PPI 30 Worldwide (the other looks
to be 33) but in both cases (and it's the left hand 'Fox' one that still needs a full ID) they were hard to shoot being
grey-scale which always goes either bright white or dark charcoal under flash
or in Picasa!
So, while they (Konrad's) sat in the news
folder, I picked these two up in a mixed bag from one of the charity shops in
town, and as well as just being two new examples, the familiarity - with a bit
of colour - was greater and I thought "I'm sure I've got some of these in
the attic somewhere from another mixed lot?", so off to the attic the
other day where I found the rest of the post in a tub of similar mini-super
deforms (Star Wars in a few days), Zomlings, Fungus Among Us &etc.
The two new ones are marked with a number
and Magic Box International
By now I thought they were probably called
crazy bones which was at the back of my mind, due to the fact that while the
obverse's are all different, the reverse's are all similar and look a bit like
vertebrae - or molar teeth-roots!
Now; I don't have a folder on the dongles
for 'Crazy Bones' and the PPI folder
only has a few PVC-looking LRG's of a Halloween type from evilBay, but I do
have a Magic Box International folder
- with only one document in it . . . Soupie's post from a few years ago.
Therefore everything I know about these
comes from there, or the links already posted there, so the rest of the post
will just look at these as examples - follow the links for more info. if you
need it.
The above are - obviously - the yellows!
From the left, the first is a sort of 'Mecha' with tampo-printed highlights in
two colours, then we have what can only be described as a tracked, US-style,
fire-hydrant! And; the only one here without a bonelike obverse - having full
mirror-symmetry; front-to-back and side-to-side.
The last two are disembodied faces, one
similar to 'The Mask' with sort of hand-feet, the other more like Laurel from
Laurel & Hardy!
The odd shapes/odd colours, I call the
green one 'Arrow-dildo' - ouch! The weight-lifter on the end is similar to a Zomling I picked-up in a mixed lot, but
the copying will be the other way, crazy bones are earlier. The blue one is
very 'designer' in execution and of a very different quality to say the silver
one next to it. On the left is a telephone?
Colour-transparent red ones, we have a sort
of ghost, a pumpkin and something I call 'Underpants Face'!
The metallics; another 'sort of' ghost on
the left, a surprised pig in the middle (I love the colour) and the new one, a
sort of designer Dunny-Bunny thing? A Wilt Dismal Manky Mouse!
Two designer types and a clear one which is
so clear it's unclear exactly what it is!
I don't know for certain anything about
Konrad's two grey ones but I wonder if PPI
are a local Polish licence holder for these globally available lines, there are
certainly limited editions, national lines and fast-food tie-ins available as
reported on Soupie's post, so I suspect they might be less common ones?
I would love to spend some time
following-up the links myself, but I have another 25,000 posts to get out and
only the one lifetime (don't laugh - I've done about 6%!), so if anyone else
does do a bit of digging; let us know what you find!
However, I'm pretty sure A) I've a similar-sized
sample in storage and B) these have become/will remain common in mixed lots for
the next few years/decade or so; so we will return to them, despite the fact
their presence here almost certainly upsets the 'Toy Soldier' purists, but I
don't call myself an iconoclast for nothing; there's no sacred cows 'ere! And
it's four new tags!
Thanks to Konrad for kicking-off this
little journey and if anyone can help with the Fox figures or his Gogo's Crazy
Bones pair I know he'll be grateful.
