L is for Lord of the Jadas

I can't remember where I found this now, I have a feeling it was discounted, so probably TKMaxx, but I can't swear to it, it was in the last few weeks though (July shots), so may still be out there, if like me, you do regularly irregular sweeps of all the likely sources!

Having waxed lyrical about these Jada die-cast figures in the past, and specifically their decoration/paint-finish, I have to say I don't think these Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) figures, are quite as nice as some we've seen, but the green cloak guy has the lustre I liked so much on my first figure, while the silver chap could march straight into any 28mm biblical force, although at 40-odd-mm he'd have to be a specific Philistine!

S is for Shot on the Shelf!

A few shelfies which were a bit too big or pricey for Rack Toy Month, here; and I think they may have been shot over some time in three stores?

 

New 'Britains' farm sculpts from Tomy, shot at the Country Market store in the garden centre near Borden a while ago now, I don't remember the git=rl being in even the last tranche of real Britains, while the vet/farrier is a totally new sculpt.

 

While these are the latest iteration of mouldings over sixty or seventy years old!

But you wouldn't transport postpartum ewes, with both their lambs, AND a ram!

 

Just a bit of fun - sleepy-cat chopstick rests! Homesense, Farnborough.

Just the kind of thing which will be appearing in those charity shop bags of mixed scale/era/make figures, quite shortly I'd imagine! Jada Toys, I couldn't tell if it was a polymer figure or another of their die-casts with a matt finish? About 75mm? TK Maxx, and I'm tagging for Gaming and TV/Movie as a film is due in 2026!

L is for Let's Have Some More!

A Bit of a follow-up to the previous posts, but once you've got the Phidal's and a few Kinder or other figures on a given theme, they rapidly get their own 'zone' and become a side-collection, so I guess that's what we're looking at here - the bulking-out of two side collections!

 

Encanto again, from Jakks Pacific, I think we may have seen these in a B&M shelfie post sometime over the last 12/18-months, but clearly I weakened when they reappeared in TKMaxx for a pound-twenty a figure! They look like the stampers (coming to the Blog soon) which are everywhere at the moment, but are just stand-alone figurines with very thick bases, for little fingers to manipulate, and weight against fluffy surfaces so they stand up, I suspect!

While I think these, The Nightmare Before Christmas figures, were from B&M? We've been looking at these on and off for several years now, Jada's line of Nano Metalfigs, with various franchises already seen here, I though what is probably a seasonal-special 'whole' set was worth grabbing at the time.

 

I know I've said it before, but it's worth saying again, or I wouldn't say it! I really love these, not because I used to be a small-scale collector, but because the metallic paint is so . . . . thick, deep, lush? I dunno', it's like you can dive into the finish; you won't understand until you've handled a few, but they are very different to anything else I can think of, and among that rarefied class of hard-metal figure which includes the Monogram WWII/Vietnam sets and the equally uncommon Kenner Star Wars die-casts.

G is for Guardians of the Galaxy

Really it's a bit of a follow-up to Jada and some recent developments in their range of Nano Metalfigs 40mm, die-cast figures. Namely, that one range has been cleared though Poundland, and another is now in that annoying vehicle; the blind bag!

I found these back in June, in the aforementioned Poundland, on each occasion there was only the one sculpt, in multiples, which I took to be a clue that it was wholesaler stock being cleared, but at a quid each they were pretty much half-price on the supermarket stuff we've looked at previously, so I grabbed one of each.

 

Close-ups of the two generations of Groot (a portmanteau word from 'Guardian' and 'Root'?) in the opposite order to how we were introduced to them! As you may have discerned, I'm not a great fan of the Marvel/DC universes, all far too formulaic, repetitive and convenient for me, but I love Guardians of the Galaxy, because it is a stand-alone sci-fi movie, with the tongue-in-cheek humour of Star Wars or the Good-Bad-Ugly trilogy, and while I have now got both sequels on DVD I haven't watched them yet, so I don't know if there are any crossover appearances from other Marvel characters, but I hope not?

 

Keeping my eye out for them after the initial finds I picked up two more, Rocket racoon (my favourite!) and Thanos, branded-up to The Avengers, who IS a crossover-character seen in the Galaxy movie, but so long as none of the spandex-clad, flying, transforming, super-powered loons' turn-up, I can bear his being in the background driving the plot!

 

The 'promotion' seems to have ended, I haven't seen any in Poundland for a couple of months now, so if I ever get the need to finish the set, it'll be me off to evilBay, or keeping my eye out at Sandown Park (where the Poundland-visiting scalpers will be wanting 4 or 5-quid each for them, I have no doubt!), but as a sample they'll do for now!

Meanwhile, on my recent trip to London, Peter Evans gave me this pair for the Blog, we have seen the Jada take on the Harry Potter franchise before with contributions from Brian Berke and show-reports/catalogue images, but as you can see they are now being sold somewhere in blind-bags, a most annoying trend!

H is for How They Come In - Charity Shop Backlog - 2022, 2 of 2

All the two's! Clearing the backlog of stuff down in Picasa's 1960, except for 2023! Slightly more interesting stuff for the purists than the last post, but it all has its place, and I make no apologies for any of it, unless I apologise first!

A rather nice two-headed dragon, I don't know who it's by, and it went to storage ages ago, but I think it's the same line as the black one we saw recently with the two different wing arrangements, so someone like Toy major maybe?

 

Another of the Jada die-casts, again I'm not sure of the franchise (so far all their offerings have been licensed) but it could be Roblox or Blockworld or whatever they are called, I liked it, despite its chipped nose, as it reminds me of the morphing-cubes robot in the water world scenes of Interstellar, the movie!

 

Seen before I think, some things do tend to get more than one outing now I'm shooting stuff for other platforms, my latest Fontanini on his chunk of Carrara Marble, and a bigger one at about 100/120-mil.

 

 

Nappies in various sizes, the one on the right is the fun one, it's a well [home-] painted slush-cast tourist statuette! The other small one is a 'figure painters' whitemetal figure, I don't know the maker while the ceramic is a fairing type, which was going for a couple of quid rather than some Meissen/Worcester type, but a fun addition to the growing side-collection of naughty Mediterranean (remember the rules of French Warfare) corporals!

This was a 50p jobbie, and worth the read, probably collected articles from a history magazine or periodical or something, not exactly in-depth, and not revealing anything which isn't in AJP Taylor or Liddle Heart, but maybe a tad-less jingoistic.

 

This wasn't that hard to pin down, the artist being revealed as Eija Seras, a Canada-based Finnish artist of the 1960-70's, but the base mark with the 'H' seems wrong (the 'E' is as she did it), so it may be a maiden or married name from one end of her period of productivity? If you google her, you find lots of chess-set pieces, this doesn't seem to be one of them, so just a touristy piece.

"Seras produced a range of Inuit figurines, hand sculpted from terracotta clay, in the late 1960s through the 1970s based on her four years living at the U.S. Air Force base in Goose Bay, Labrador in the mid 60s . The artist was awarded the Canadian Design of Merit citation in 1974 by the National Design Council of Canada for her native figures"

 

'How they came in'! I forgot to load this picture in order, and if I slot it in now I'll have to rewrite the blurbs on the other two, and I'm intrinsically idle, so that's a big, fat no! I seem to recall they were a couple of quid each, from the BHF in Farnborough. Really showing the superiority of plastic in certain situations, as seen by those, back then, who couldn't foresee the pollution problem careering down the tracks.

H is for How They Come In - Cheap Deals

This post deals with stuff I picked-up while out and about last April-May, or at least that's when I shot the photographs, sometimes things get shot same the day sometimes they don't, nor do they always get photographed in the order they came in, so March may be the start-date of this little lot, but it hardly matters!

This must have been a previous (2020) Christmas range, on clearance, from the same Hobbycraft decoration line we've looked at here recently from the year just gone (2021), which are themselves now on clearance! Not the best sculpt, it seems to be channeling at least two species, but what do I know, the cake-decoration deer have their own box (there's so many of them) and he'll add to that 'archive'!

Erasersaurs, we may have seen them before as another iteration; I haven't checked, but, even if we have, they may be new colours. There is a post on Dinorasers in the long-queue, but these aren't in it?!! Asda supermarkets, and close-enough to the now ended Walmart ownership for them to possibly be findable over the pond in that establishment, but probably not now?

This was 20p in Paperchase! They had a table with tons of stuff, most of it one-offs, some of it quite dusty and had obviously had a serious five- or ten-year stock take and cleared out the forgotten corners, and 'behind the shelves' areas of the storeroom? You can see from the chunky pen that it's a largish beast and had a lovely metallic decoration. 'Bronty' the Biro!

This was in the same Paperchase pile, and also the only one, missing it's cap and not something I would normally give house room to, but A) it's cats! B) I had, only a few days earlier, split the cats, dogs and elephants into their own tubs, and C) 20p!! Soft-foam calico cats with a Biro up their arses!

Flying Tiger gave up this for a quid, the same day I think? It was my first trip to Basingrad since before lockdown (a year or so?) and is just for the archive, to ID in the future, to box-tick the brand and items, fun, silicon 'rubber jigglers' in the old-school style.

These were on clearance at TKMaxx, and you know by know I really like these, the . . . start again; We are about to look at three of these sets of Nano-Metal's from Jada, two of which (probably these two) were on clearance at TKMaxx, the other - I think - came in a few days later, either from eBay or Asda stores? But . . . it may have been a donation and because the amount of stuff which has joined the long-queue in the last 14-odd months is vast, I'm not 100% sure on the history of these now! So I'll thank the two obvious candidates - Brian Berke or Peter Evans - for everything they do for the Blog, and carry on as if they were three similar retail/clearance purchases a few days apart, nearly a year ago!

The first set (above) was a straight tie-in with the Incredibles movie, or at least Incredibles 2 which I haven't seen, but I thought the first one was fun and they have that lovely metallic paint which makes this range so lush, while there is a duplicate pose in the second set which is a sort of Disney 'starter' set with figures ancient ('classics') and modern (Pixar joint-productions).

I don't know who Baymax is (actually I've just Goggled him! Big Hero 6, which had totally escaped me?), but there are characters here from seven franchises, with pairs from Monsters Inc., and The Muppets.

The one I'm not so sure about, I think it was reduced in Asda, but . . . which definitely came in a week or two after the other two sets and, again, another 'starter' set to get you wanting more Disney "100% diecast" Nano Metal's, with a lovely pair from Alice in Wonderland, two Scrooge McDuck characters and little Lilo.

B is for Beered-up Bender Bot!

I knew I had a Bender-bot which I thought to add to the back-end (tail-end?) of the previous post, but then I couldn't find it in Picasa? Looking on the desktop (which has far too many folders on it because I'm lazy) I found it was already a post, waiting, so here it is as a follow-up!

Courtesy of Mr Berke of New York, this is another rival to Lego (always to be encouraged), with 'popular market-leading brand' stud-compatibility and you can see from the obverse of the card that there are other ranges including masters of the Universe (He-Man) and Star Trek figurines, also it (Mega Construx or Mega Brands)'s backed by the mighty Mattel, so let's hope for big things and a break on Lego's hegemony!

It's 'Kiss my shiny metal ass' Bender with his Mom's Old fashioned Robot Oil can and swag-bag, too cool for coding school!

Robots give way to ducks . . . and British Bobbies! Brian shot him with a Jada Nano Metalfig of Uncle Scrooge for sizing/scale and then shot the Disney Duck with other recognisable figures (Hill policemen?), so only two pictures and a couple'a-hundred words but a full tag-list!

Bender looks quite worried by the proximity of Scrooge! Throw the oil at the duck and run with the loot mate . . . s'my advice! Or; are they going into business together? Cheers Brian!

H is for Halo

I think I mentioned these in a Friday date's 'H is for...' and further added that we'd look at them separately, well, in the event I got four more and then another three, with only 12 in the line, I'm over half-way there . . . but they have now been fully 'cleared' so I think three-quarter's-Halo will be it! [Famous last words - Since writing this post another has come in and been seen in a Friday date's 'H is for...', so I only need one, I now have eleven (of twelve), and if I can find the commander, we'll return to them briefly as a group]

The first two purchased; a standard 'Space Marine' (from my limited knowledge of the game, mostly garnered from the sides of Mega-Bloks boxes!) [MS2 - Master Chief] and a feisty, blue, robo-babe [MS9 - Cortana] who may be enemy, but balanced what was originally intended to be a small sample . . . of two.

I think these are two 'good guys' above (yes, there are two Master Chiefs; if you game Halo I guess that'll make perfect sense!) and two bad-guys below, but I haven't the faintest idea really! I got four more, because as - you may have gathered from past posts - I really like these little Jada die-casts, and, as I know so little about Halo; I bag each separately with the little name tag they're standing on!

Three more, not sure of the allegiances of any of these, but the Hunchback-of-Halo-World [MS11 - Grunt Minor] has to be an evil-beevil? he's sports a purple fist . . . that's gotta' be bad! The chap in the middle [MS10 - Atriox] looks a bit Marvel'esque, while the guy on the far left [MS3 - Emile-239] looks like a space marine but could still be a baddie, or mercenary?

I think this got left-off any one of several previous posts on these, courtesy of Brian B who shelfied Harry in the US, we have seen the line in a report from the Toy Fair. With Marvel, DC, Disney, Harry and Halo; there's something for everyone with Jada's Nano Metalfigs!

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News, Views Etc . . . Forthcoming Events; Saturday 29th June - Friday 5th July 2019

I'm pleased to say Putin is wrong, had he made his speech a few months ago, I would have agreed with him, but in fact Netanyahu, Erdogan, and the minor player's in Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria are on the slide, and while in Britain and American 'post-war Liberalism' is still in trouble, elsewhere they are starting to pull back from the divisive popularism driven by Moscow's twitfaceplant algorithms!

Even where the 'Right' (wrong!) did well in the recent Euro-elections, they have silently dropped calls for Frexit, Dexit, Italexit etc . . . and decided to work with the EU! Here, however we are about to let nought-point-nought-something of the population elect a blustering serial liar, resigner and runner-away as our next PM, while in the US they appear to be legalising gerrymandering, while kids drown! You can't make this shit up!

The two bodies in the Rio Grande are no different from the boy on a Mediterranean beach a few years ago, from the thousands who have drowned in the same sea, from the burnt cadavers in the charred ruins of Rwandan Churches, Tamil bungalows or Burmese huts; the beheaded of Iraq and Syria; the mass-graves outside Goražde; the kids barrel-bombed in Alepo, or those sunken-eyed skeletal children pressed against the wire in Belsen.

And behind the never-ending list of the pink-monkey's awfulness, are people like Mr Putin.

Seems to be a good week for railway fans . . . get out and buy yourself a toy - you deserve it, everybody deserves a toy, and remember old-toy buying is 'recycling'; very green!

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Toy Fairs

Saturday 29th June 2019

Ditton (Kent, not Thames-) - SRP Toyfairs

Ditton Community Centre, Kiln Barn Road, Ditton, Kent, ME20 6AH

Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk

eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk

Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)

10:00 - 14:00hrs

Admission charge unknown

New Date - New Venue

Nelson Treharris - Martyn Parry - Model Railway Exhibition

Llancaiach Fawr Manor, Nelson Treharris, Wales, CF46 6ER

eMail - m.parry387@btinternet.com

Tel. - 01443 837 646

Mob. - 07990 752 102

10:00-16:00hrs

Admission £3.00, under-16's free

Free parking, disabled access, refreshments

Exhibision layouts and trade stands

Oswestry - Chris Dyer Fairs

The Pavillion, Owestry Showgrownd, Park Hall, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY11 4AS

Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk

Tel. - 01643 702 757

Mob. - 07966 694 579

10:30 - 15:00hrs

Admission £2

London (Chalk Farm) - Guideline Publications - London Toy Soldier Show

Haverstock School, 24 Haverstock Hill, Chalk Farm, London, NW3 2BQ

Web. - www.toysoldiershow.co.uk

eMail - kim@guidelinepublications.co.uk

Tel. - 01908 274 433

10:30 - 16:00hrs

Admission £6, early bird (from 09:30hrs) £10, late hares £4 - after 14:00hrs

Parking £5 (reasonable for London!)

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Sunday 30th June 2019

Catterick Garison - Jim Corr - Toy, Train & Sci-fi Fair

Catterick Garrison Leisure Centre, Gough Road, Catterick DL9 3EL

eMail - jim_corr73@hotmail.co.uk

Mob. - 07504 035 955

10:00 - 14:00hrs

Admission £3, child/seniors £2, early bird £5

Free Parking, café

Exhibition layouts

Colwyn Bay - Chris Dyer fairs

Colwyn Bay Lesuire Centre, Eirias Park, Colwyn Bay, Conway, Wales, LL29 7SP

Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk

Tel. - 01643 702 757

Mob. - 07966 694 579

10:30 - 15:00hrs

Admission £2

Eastleigh - Steven Clements Fairs

Barton Peveril Sixth Form Collage, Chestnut Avenue, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO50 5ZA

eMail: clementfairs@aol.com

Tel. - 01380 725 322

Mob. - 07958 101 891

10:00 - 14:00hrs

Newton Abbot - Ray Heard Train & Toy Fairs

Newton Abbot Racecourse, Devon, TQ12 3AF

Internet presence unknown

Tel. - 01823 480 097

10:00 - 15:30hrs

Admission £2.00

Free parking, refreshments

Orpington - SRP Toyfairs

Crofton Halls, Orpington, Kent, BR6 8PR

Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk

eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk

Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)

10:00 - 14:00hrs

Admission charge unknown

Spalding - J&J Fairs (J&J Webb)

Springfields Events & Conference Centre, Camelgate, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE12 6ET

Web. - www.j-jwebbtoyfairs.com

eMail - jandjfairs@virginmedia.com

Tel. - 01522 880 383

10:00 - 14:30hrs

Admission - Adult £2.50p, seniors £2, 1st child £1.50p

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Wednesday 3rd July 2019

Hertford - Joe Lock Fairs (Evening Fair)

Richard Hale School, Hale Road, Hertford, Hertfordshire, SG13 8EN

Internet presence unknown

Mob. - 07866 641 215

19:00-21:00hrs

Admission £1

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Auctions

Tuesday 2nd July 2019

Tunbridge Wells - C&T Auctioneers

The York Suite, The Spa Hotel, Mount Ephraim, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8XJ (Venue)

Unit 4, High House Business Park, Kenardington, Near Ashford, Kent, TN26 2LF (Auction House)

Web. - www.candtauctions.co.uk

eMail - enquiries@candtauctions.co.uk

Valuations - jamesopie@yahoo.co.uk

Tel. - 44 1233 510 050 (from abroad)

Tel. - 01233 510 050 (within the UK)

Viewing from 08:30hrs, sale starts 10:00hrs

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Other Events

From Now until Monday 9th September 2019

Cardiff - Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N.

St. David's Shopping Centre, 7 Bridge Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 2EF

Web. - https://www.avengersstation.co.uk/home/cardiff

Interactive superhero 'event' running through the holidays

Previously announced here as London (Victoria Dock), that ended in May I think?

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From Now until Friday 30th August 2019

Various Locations - Scotland - DC Thompson Media - Oor Wullie's Big Bucket Challenge

A variation of the Nutcracker/Giant Animal trails held locally and reported here at Small Scale World passim, there is a statue trail through Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness, featuring the old comic-book character

Web. - www.oorwullie.com

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Saturday 29th June 2019

Plymouth - City Council/Babcock Engineering - Armed Forces Day

The Hoe, Plymouth, Devon

Web. - plymoutharmedforcesday.co.uk

Live music (military bands and the Military Wives Choir), military and flying displays

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Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th June 2019

Perth - Perth & District Model Railway Group (PMRC) - Celebration of Model Railways

Dewars Centre, Glover Street, Perth, Scotland, PH2 0TH

Web. - http://smet.org.uk/show-pmrc (club page)

Web. - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/142112-perth-model-railway-exhibition-29-and-30-jun-2019/ (hobby page)

10:00-17:30hrs (Saturday June 29th)

10:00-17:00hrs (Sunday June 30th)

Admission £9.00 adults, £4.00 chirldren.'family ticket' (2 adults + 2 children) £20.00

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Overseas Events

Sunday 30th June 2019

Gujan-Mestras (France) - L'association Starlux Generation Beffara - Une Bourse aux Figurines, Miniatures et Trains (A market for figures, miniatures and model trains)

Maison des Arts, Rue Edmond Daubric (face à la gare - facing the station), 33470 Gujan-Mestres, Gironde, France

Web. - http://www.tvba.fr/agenda/bourse-aux-figurines-miniatures-trains-2/ (third party site)

eMail - starlux.association@gmail.com

09:00 - 18:00hrs

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Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th June 2019

Deshler (USA) - Spring Creek Model Trains - Train Show & Open House

Spring Creek Model Trains, 304 East Bryson Avenue, Deshler, NE 68340, Nebraska, USA

Web. - https://www.springcreekmodeltrains.com/train-show/

eMail - customerservice@springcreekmodeltrains.com

Tel. - 4023 657 628

Times and admission details unknown

Stuttgart (Germany) - Eventbrite/Panini - Comic Con. Germany - 'CCON'

Messe Stuttgart, Messepiazza 1, 70629 Stuttgart, Germany

Web. - https://www.eventbrite.de/e/ccon-comic-con-germany-stuttgart-2019-tickets-50587266877?aff=ebdssbcitybrowse

The Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/comiccon.germany/

09:00-18:00hrs

Admission charge unknown

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News

More on Hornby

Several cutting have thrown a little more light on what's been going on at the home of Airfix/Corgi/Scalextric recently with Lyndon Davis of Hornby claiming the previous senior management didn't understand the business and that the company had been in chaos. Blaming the previous management for what was known throughout the toy industry to be supply-chain problems from a Chinese supplier (who's no longer in the frame), seems a bit harsh though?

Safety

The British Toy & Hobbycraft Association (BTHA) have blind purchased 200 toys from eBay, Amazon and AliExpress (retail arm/platform of Ali Baba) and found 22% of them to have failed UK (currently still also EU-) safety standards. Now obviously there's bias involved as they actually represent UK retailers/manufacturers rather than the consumers they are trying to scare with subsequent tales of 'risk of death and serious injury', however the most worrying thing they found was a superhero dressing-up costume with illegal levels of lead? Something to think about when looking for generic bargains on off-shore platforms!

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Toys in the Media

Three today;

More Preiser/Noch types; when they're not being used by artists (check this post out at Jan's) they are being used by advertisers! And there's a second (non-toy) recurring trope in there with the piles of small-denomination coinage, it's only piggy-banks missing for a full-house . . . and I think there are some in the queue!

This would appear to be the old, slightly cartoonish 'toob' figures from Safari? Helping to sell a drug-trial and because it's for Charity and may even appeal to some of you (not us fifty-something youngsters!); I've not obliterated the copy. I have the catapult somewhere and a couple of the knights . . . somewhere else!

Yeah! It's a Teddy Bear; apparently if you smoke over them they can get kapok-cancer or something . . . plush-pulmonary disease, even-glassier-eye? In the case of the above chap/chap'ess - it seems to be a chronic case of fatalistic-frown syndrome? Fee Fi Fo Fum; I smell the blood of Photoshop!

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H is for How They Come In

I think this is 11 of 12, but I'm not sure, and the post I thought I'd done on them is still in the queue, bar another, previous 'H is for . . . '-post, so I'll have to re-shoot it and do a better job at some point . . . but; still appearing in The Works are Jada's die-cast Nano Metalfigs 'Halo' clearance, and I picked up another this week, they also have HP, HP II and Amazing Beasts, or whatever HP VIII is called?!

This was interesting; Charity shop in Farnborough had five bags of 'gift aid'ed figures, three were the usual pile of Airfix Para's, Commandos and US Infantry (which I left), but two bags were Germans, mostly Airfix (DAK and Infantry), but a few vintage and what were 'modern' about 15/20-years ago, so I grabbed them for the gap-fillers,

Weirdly there are no less than five officers in the lot, yet no Airfix 'Rommel's' and while there were plenty of the Revell prone shooters (and the running guy) along with the officer, all the poses not seen on the right were missing, so I'm guessing these bags contain the unwanted's from an army-building exercise?

There were also a bunch of Deetail in a glass cabinet, individually priced, but I only took the two 1990's re-issue examples as I have the 'inherited' lot of the originals Also a bit strange, the two charity shops in Farnborough are next door to each other, and the other shop also had Deetail Germans in a glass cabinet, but they weren’t 'gift aid' and were scruffier, so it appears that they are having charity-shop wars, down the line there!

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Links

The rules of 'being a toy' explained!

While the Philstar Global's trying to kill them off!

More Prieser, but this was all her own 'unique' idea, she has no knowledge of the fifteen artists who came before and are already on the wibbly wobbly way!

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