A is for Animated Animals in Amniotic Afterbirth!

I may be over-egging it slightly, but it's still a rather odd thing for anyone to think might make a toy, even a toy for older kids, as one presumes these were aimed at? They literally come in a rubber amniotic sack!

 

Made of stretchy-rubber, probably a silicon, and various colours, designed to produce a sort of limited-colour rainbow effect, with the 'smoked' bicolour eggs, which are a hard propylene, or flexible hybrid-styrene, the amniotic sack IS what constitutes the afterbirth, isn't it, I'm not making this shit up?

 

These were a charity-shop purchase back in 2018, who have been sitting in Picasa while I tried to find an angle on them, but I'm not sure if I have, really? Anyway, we're going to run through them quickly as a box-ticker!

 

There are two parallel lines, one more Dinosaur recognisable, the other more Monster'ish, and both had five models in the first tranche, although I don't know if there was a second wave, and they were issued by Canadian Mega Brands (of Mega Bloks), and may have been designed to enhance that companies little Lego-like 'minis', which at the time (2006) included fantasy stuff, and - if memory serves - rather overblown Vikings.

 

Plasma Dinosaurs

 

The two Dino'types, a steggi' and a tricerah', they are well-made and decorated for what they are - pocket-money'ish, plug-together fantasy toys. Made of a dense but softish PVC substitute, and dry-brush weathered over a two-colour, basic scheme.

 

They plug together from seven parts, remarkably like the Blue Box Gormiti we saw here;

https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2014/03/n-is-for-new-finds-pt4-sci-fi-and.html

 

And may well be manufactured in one of the Tai Sang plants, for Mega, who knows, they are certainly the same material, as well as having the same plug-in construction?

 

An eighth part takes the two dinosaurs off to the realms of pure fantasy, being sets of wings which plug-onto the back, at the shoulder joint area. But to get the wings you have to have the full-on dragon-monsters too!

 

Plasma Dragons

 

Construction of the two monsters is similar, and if you studied the scanned ephemera on the way down the post, you'll see the idea is to collect all ten, and then twin them; one each, dino'monster, with it's dedicated full-fantasy monster, to create even larger monsters, through mix-and-match of the various parts!

They all came with a collecting card too, and I'm sure if I dug deeper, I'd find there's more to them, I have a tin of Orks (Tolkien not Kremlin) somewhere (their own tin, illustrated like the paperwork here), from Mega Bloks, which are far more adult-oriented toy figures, than even the current Lego stuff, yet they are similar age (20-odd years old, or thereabouts), and there may have been gaming elements or rules, to, or between the two lines, in an attempt to muscle-in on the Nottingham Mafia's action, but I don't know?

L is for Lots of London Loot - Two is a Pair!

Continuing with the various donations which have come back from London 'Taaarn' over the last few months, and we're back to August for this lot which all came from Peter Evans, so thanking him before we start, let's see what was in the bag!

 

An eclectic mix of figures we've probably seen before, with clockwise from the top left; Lido French Foreign Legion officer, Crescent for marked-Kellogg's medieval archer, astronaut (K&M I think?), Matchbox Adventure 2000 figure and the Corgi camper having a Barbecue!

 

In the centre a novelty, overmoulded guardsman with what seem to be a simlified SA80 (so quite modern), with two of the Hong Kong figures, copied from and sometime carried by cavendish Miniatures, and nice to get a loose Hourse Guard with his sword arm complete!

 

We looked at the main sets/games with show-jumping kit, not that long ago, well, just a year ago, so this will make a nice addition to that tub! I suspect it might be from a kid's magazine cover-gift, I occasionally see such things, but it's very well-made, and wile a bit small for something like Playmobil, could be from a Gymkhana by them?

Three ACW from Hong Kong, copies of Timpo 1st version figures, there are lots of these waiting final sorts (some cowboys and Indians recently came in, also from Peter, which should be in one of the later posts in this sequence), and the unusual aspect of this clean sample of one maker's stuff, is the pegs are still with the figures (which will help ID them) and the weapons match, despite being two colours, so a further ID'ing clue!

This is fun! Reasonable rendition of a Tricerotops, in the style of those Blue Box monsters from Gormiti, we looked at here at Small Scale World, a few years ago, but of a smaller finished size, it has a pop-together element with ball-&-socket hips, shoulders and tail section, anyone know the maker/set/line?

 

11-02-2026 - I knew! Plasma Dinosaur from Mega, they were already in the queue!
 

Two bags of small-scale, ancient, in the post-Giant Wild West (1960/70's) and more modern in the WWII figures - I seem to recall those quite good, near-28mm copies of Airfix were around in the 1990's?

 

A couple of 'clean' Britains farm animals, two Airfix babies and a couple of old Hong Kong copies of Britains (officer) and Crescent (damaged shorts guy), which will be sorted into the rest, where the shorts guy may be the only one in blue plastic, so stays until he's been sorted - a damaged sample is better than no sample!

An eclectic lot! At the bottom a set of Matchbox lumps from the 1990's, above them are a nice little cannon, probably from a quite juvenile mini-playset? With a Nottingham Mafia horse, home-painted, while at the top we have an Autobot/Transformer type thing, possibly a modern capsule toy, a Culpitt (and others) cake decoration Indian, and the Giraffe from the Tupperware alphabet blocks.

 

Modern animals, medium-small, but quite nicely done and probably from the same - yet to be identified - set, possibly a toob/tub thing?

 

Top left is Iggle Piggle, I think? From In the Night Garden, below him is a pencil top of Raymond Brigg's The Snowman, with what would appear to be three Pokemon, although I'm not so sure on the purple dragon chap? Many thanks again to Peter for this eclectic bucnh of polymer personages!

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!