H is for How They Come In - Chris - May - 6

Drawing to a close, but if you've caught any of the previous five episodes, I think you'll agree is been an interesting lot, with a few revelations (not 'discoveries', just revelations!) with Commander Rourke's Command Car and the Poplar Plastics / Playthings Two-in-One pair!

This is the TV/Movie, sci-fi/fantasy and space items, which includes any superhero's or cartoony things.

Chris has only gone and found another pop-up astronaut/spaceman! Based on the old LB sculpt, missing his spring and sucker but a nice, muted, mustard-yellow. In front of him is a Bluebird Karnoid, or knock-off (?) I can't get an exact match with my catalogues? Next to him what looks like a gum-ball capsule-machine knock-off of a Japanese keshi robot in silver.

Next to the Action Fleet Vader is a Chewy who looks familiar while being neither Galoob nor Wizards', so must be a more modern Mattel or Hasbro thing, I have half a feeling I have a Han or Luke on a similar base? He would go well with the Wizards of the Coast stuff though, or the Imperial Assault board game from Disney/Fantasy Flight?

The two larger figures look like 'action figures' but are solids, one a MUSCLE or knock-off (blue) the other new to me; anyone know? Front row are a sidewinder type missile in a hard plastic but not kit-plastic and from the size, some big-box 'China' electronic aircraft I suspect, an Airfix kit figure from the Moon-Lander and a triple-point, vaginal-stimulator with hand-grip . . . wot? Oh cummon . . . they RUINED it - Thunderballs, no double-oh-seven! It looks like a dibber for spuds! It goes in the tub with all the other micro-Anderson stuff and is gratefully received!

Which leaves the large chap at the back . . . I knew literally nothing about Quentin (for it is he!), but Chris knew all about him, and we worked-out I was mostly out of the country, without telly, or drunk during his run at popular-cultural fame!

Quentin for those equally not paying attention back in the day was the mascot for Lloyds Bank, and he had TV adverts and everything; Chris found one on YouTube -

It might have been a squeaky toy that's lost its squeak, or just manufactured in the same way - PVC blow-mould? And a brilliant box to tick - cheers Chris!

This looked like a rather non-descript civilian type, sans head until I noticed he wears a Starfleet breast-badge, so . . . board-game playing piece? I've had a cursory look but didn't draw-out anything beyond the fact there are lots of Star Trek board games! Behind him a Swizzles Matlow Bone Shakers candy-container coffin, to keep you cough-drop'in! You can get tickets from the box-office, I'm here all week!

Two Teenage Mutant Hero Ninja Turtles, the one on the left (Mirage Studios/Playmates Toys) is action-figure'y with five points of articulation, the one on the right (Mirage Studios/Bully) is a solid, and both seem to be new to collection/Blog, but the Playmates' may go with ones we've seen before, as there are a lot of product-related figures out there for these, there being only four joint/main characters, and a lot in the collection still to be Blogged.

The Post Office failed again, foxy will need superglue, the 'wraith rider' should accept poly-cement! I don't know if the figures are from the LotR's Risk, or a French board game of 30-odd years ago called Dragon-something, or something-Dragons, but it's all in the archive and will come out in the wash before they go on the A-Z pages!

Quality merchandise! A Brickwoods publican 'brewerania' figure, a resin footballer and his dog, a polystyrene crocodile (or alligator, I'll have no species'ism here!) playing a saxaphone - as they do - and an old silicon elephant which I think might be an Esso Petroleum premium.

An Action Fleet Tie Fighter pilot who should have been in the first shot, and a Captain Scarlet who's probably been ripped from a Century 21 or similar Hong Kong make's Spectrum Patrol Car?

Kinder Disney, sans stickers, a wooden nodding toy removed from its nodder and re-tied as a floppy donkey! And the best; a smoking dog bendy! I thought it might be a Hector knock-off from Hector's House, but Chris found a couple more with cigar and cigarette, so they are 'the smoking dogs' bendies!

What looks like a Harry Potter figure, but not Harry, one of the bad-guys, they always have pale skin, or green skin, or red skin, or blotchy skin, even sweaty skin . . . odd-skin = bad guys! A Battle Beast in a pink leather leotard . . . and why not? He's missing an arm, but will join a slowly growing pile of them, whole ones are getting pricey on feebleBay these days, and the weapons are like gold-dust! I think there's a spud-dibber round here for him!

And an action figure of 54mm proportions brings these parcel overviews to a close. He is probably a character I should know, but you can't know everything! Seven Points of articulation, and possibly a wrestler figure but from which franchise! Many, many thanks to Chris Smith for everything we've seen in these six posts, we cover/re-cover a lot of ground with them, each time.