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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Showing posts with label Magicbox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magicbox. Show all posts

Monday, August 21, 2023

F is for Follow-up, Just a Follow-up!

I few things which have popped-up here in the last few weeks, to which I've added another 'thing', so, shove them all together and we've got a bitty post, of limited interest, but hey, you can't be perfect everyday!

A shelfie I took in The Works last week, nothing exciting, but it all helps, or will help ID this stuff in the future, I think there were three different packings of the dinosaurs; clearly combining a set of medium-sized ones (the ones from WHSmith a few years ago?) and a set of smallies, while the farm sets all seemed to have the same contents.
 
I would have bought a couple, but until we complete on this place I have to be frugal, in case I need to find another six-month's rent in December - which is frighteningly not far away now!

Charity shop handful, the large Policeman's base matches the farm lady we saw here a while ago, she was an Elastolin clone, and while I think he's more original, the connection might help explain his slightly German look?
 
The bear is a MEG Teddy in my Pocket, and just happens to look like Paddington, I don't think he's meant to be/represent Paddington, but I'm equally sure it wasn't a coincidence! And the Toy Story model of Jessie is a Nestle premium.
 
While on the blind-bag front, from the 'We buy this shit...' department, and also from The Works (although they will be all over the place), came this Super Thing, from Magicbox, a small foamed-rubber 'kin, with a hole which can be stretched over a pencil, even though they don't seem to be specifically designed for pencils?