These are all the other things in a folder
it'll be nice to see the back off for a bit, as they've been sitting around in
Picasa for about three years now! Vaguely in order of their being deposited in
the folder, with something a little different at the end!
Full page spread in The Metro or 'i', probably CGI'd Russian nesting dolls
advertising a give-back to the LGBTQI+ community by Paddy Power . . . every time Russia scoured a goal, money went to
Putin's hated gays! The funny thing is, I susspect Putin's an every-way
predatory deviant . . . but the witnesses are probably all in the ground,
except his poor ex-wife who's in internal exile in Kaliningrad!
And it's nice to see that while I was
earning my own opprobrium from 'over there' for questioning some of the 'eastern'
production, its promotion, price and where - exactly - the money was going,
other - more mainstream - sources were also realising Russia was not a friend -
of anybody.
Oh, I'll have plenty more to say on the
subject, don't you worry . . . unless you're in the Penn-State Toy Soldier
mafia, in which case you may well worry? I'll name you because you put your
names to your insensitive comments, lacking all self-awareness, or awareness of
the greater world picture, you nasty little, right-wing, selfish, brain-dead
shitheads.
Taken before I'd got my new scanner, and
sadly out of focus, but you can see it's Kenco
using some cheapo, substitute vinyl-rubber, rack-toy Chinnamals to advertise
their excellent granulated goodness! Yeah-nah-yeah, I used to take Kenco,
before I realised Douwe Egbert's gave
me an unending supply of self-seal storage jars!
I like this one, on one level it's a pretty
non-descript advert for something your subconscious will ignore the instant you
realise it's not for you, but on another level it's using a toy frog to trigger
the large-print tagline, while the toy bus reinforces both the toy/key-ring
motive, and that it's about two drivers, one having more useful insurance
coverage than the other - get on the back of your better insured friend, or get
the bus!
I
think this and the previous were taken from copies of The Economist?
This is more of a joke-ad', I can't
remember where from, but something like The
New Yorker, circa 1960's, maybe something more mainstream like Mad Magazine? It is however; still 'toys
in the media' and came via Brain Heiler's Facebook group I think?
Two from my Facebook feed, following the
same trope of using a model house to sell on-line Estate Agency (Real Estate)
services. The two buildings are quite different so may have separate origins,
and I wonder if they might be houses for gerbils or other small pets, or maybe
money-banks strategically posed to hide the coin slots?
Touristy/novelty pound/dollar-store stuff,
though, I think? However - from the size of the hands - very useful for war-gaming
in 54/60mm scales. Both could pass for Western Europe or New England and both
are pretty simple, timeless designs.
Back to an old trope here, previously seen
on a couple of book covers and a health thing; the model-kit runner. Here
employed as street-furniture outside the Japanese HQ of Shizuoka Models, incorporating a post box, there are similar
constructions around the plant's wider site, some in blue.
Real-steam steam-rollers (probably Mamod - the current Model 1312 [short version] looks almost the same) being used to
sell the luxurious smoothness of Cormar
carpets! Bry-Nylon was that terrible
stuff which snagged you fingernails, skinned your knees and gave you shocks if
you had the wrong footwear . . . and the shit which gathered in the little
ravines between the fluffy-islands!! Published circa-1970; a magazine advert
for awfully-awful, bloody-awful carpets.
Not a movie still, not a fan's CGI, not a 'toy
in the media', and while Paddington has been seen here before now; not actually
Paddington, not even a bear . . . this is a dog! A toy-dog if you like, a Pomeranian
to be precise (no piccolo :-( ), who
gets dressed-up as Paddington by his owner! You can't make this shit up, but he
(she?) makes a very good Paddington!
