More standard egg shapes here, some with chocolate, some without, along with a blind bag ( Lego ) and a Tomy 'gum' ball! Bandwa...

Just a quickie, as they are definitely at the infant-toy end of the spectrum, but fun nevertheless! We've looked at the mini wargame...

And rather anachronistic, cave-dwelling, humanoid types! Each of which is marked HONG KONG on the handle/shaft of his axe, spear or club. Ke...

Just a quickie, I managed to get a handful of mostly vintage gum-ball prizes . . . humm . . . they're hardly prizes if you've paid a...

Not in the Charity shop packs of LRG's we looked at this morning but a purchase from the last Sandown Park toy show; who will go in thei...

Looking at PVC lumps; these came-in just before Christmas, there are quite a few of them around, and while I have a some in storage (odds an...

So....I'm opperating out of the libray for a week or two, so no spellchecker (or caps checker!), and while I'm loading lots of artic...

This was loaded two days ago and I meant to publish it yesterday, but Vodafone (the princes of digital-darkness) had other ideas and an Inte...

As we saw with the supermarket set the other day, the mini tree crackers sometimes contain mini-novelties, and animals are one of the tropes...

Yhep...practical! Who the hell wants something useful in their Christmas cracker? You want a frivolous piece of plastic tat to take the mick...

Yes! Knowing that some of the stuff in this run-up to Christmas was really kak-caca and shity-shite from Tatty-tat Tattington, I tried to br...

I fear we've had that title before, hey-ho!. Small sample here today, if only because the various elements of stationery-related stuff g...

Both from Christmas crackers, and both quite recent I think...well I sort of know, but I'll explain, I tend not to keep these in their s...

A great favourite with novelty shite producers and issuers, it works; vaguely, and kids love them, where/why the common key motif though, is...

The rest of the games, these are all from Christmas crackers, although some of them will be found in capsule/gum-ball dispensers, while the ...

Found the Jacks! And a few more came in, more of a cracker thing, but they are in larger capsule machines and were always one of the items i...

We've still got a few animals to cover, but these are the last of the figural sculpts, although...mostly animals, but in the cartoon or ...