E is for Eye-Candy - Rubber Suits

Just a quickie, having a sort the other night and photographed all the minor-sample, droid-mecha-auto-tranformer-battle suit, small bots which have come in over the last few months, these are all soft, PVC-like or eraser-rubber, technically - mixed elastomers!

The three larger erasers we've seen before here, while the two taller blue ones are interesting for being my First marked 'Korea'. The sucker-bot is about half the size of the Lik Be (LB, because it can't realistically be anything else) ones, and the checked-chap in pale blue is a M.U.S.C.L.E from Mattel via-Japan, and the small blue one with the big exposed brain is another Japanese Kaiju type mini.

 

The rest (green, silver, orange and sucker) are Hong Kong's finest, with the green one being an apparent conversion, from the straight pantographing of a parachute toy licensed from He Man, I think, by removing the shroud-line hooks.

 

Added within the hour; the sucker-bot has a full set of M.K. and T-in-a-circle marks for Mei Kee, (also and since around 2016/17 credited to one of two Tai Hing's on Moonbase, I can't remember why) and is actually about 2/3rds of the size of the LB ones, not 1/2 as I said above - I'm shit at judging by eye!

 

There's loads of this mini-stuff in the stash, and one day I'll try to make more sense of it all!

T is for Two - Alien Academic Accoutrements

Oh, we like a bit of novelty stationary and stuff here, whether it's WWI rulers from France, 'Erasersaurs', or pencil sharpeners, and in particular, recently, the KT-marked pencil sharpeners, and, related - very recently - the cake decoration astronaut, so we shouldn't be surprised to find more KT novelties . . . 

. . . even when they are a PVC-flat/Ethylene-cap combination, rather than the polystyrene of all the previous finds! Aren't they lovely? Over-sprayed with random blasts of transparent 'glass-paint' giving the soft vinyl a metallic sheen, the black cartoon outlines over-rolled.

 

Did they belong to cheap 'Biro's', or were the caps designed to be universal, they are a bit narrow for most writing implements, so the feeling is they were specific to something? But what? And are they 'Bots or humanoids . . . humanoid droids!

I present a new tongue-twister: A Human boy, called Floyd, annoyed a humanoid droid, named Boyd!

 

The clear K.T. mark, as seen on all previous examples with the distinct full-stops, and they are modelled after one type of cookie-cutter, with the detail raised as low walls on an otherwise flat slab of PVC. The googlie-eyes giving them a certain character, which paint, or raised black-lines wouldn't have!

 

We actually saw this guy (girl, hermaphrodite . . . insert crude joke about female couplings here, well, it's an Alien; it could be a polyp-reproducing hive-mind for all I know!) the other day on a comparison shot, but he obviously got shot a lot! A modern 'CHINA' pencil top, nothing else to say about him, out there still, probably, somewhere!

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31st Dec. 2023 - Shaun Hite over at Pod Stallions, quickly ID'd the pencil-tops as being characters from Robocon, a Japanese live-action 'Tokusatsu' children's TV comedy, from Toei, with the short fat chap being the eponymous and hapless Robocon, the silver one is his boss-creator/teacher-mentor called Gantsu Sensei I think, while the other might be RoboWaru? Images from a third party, if they are yours, and you want them removed, that's not a problem.

 

From the Mai Kee (MK (T)) catalogue, 1986, courtesy of Bill B

 

Shaun was looking for similar flats to his, and while they are the same as mine (flat yellow, black cartoon line 'walls', transparent red/green spray-wash patches), his are key-rings (with the same gold-anodised connecting ring) and represent characters from another set, possibly Anime, of the Transformer type, not Tokusatsu. So these tops were part of a larger line of items - note the sharks and dinosaurs.