T is for Tom & Jerry!

Twice in a week would give you the impression the world is awash with Tom & Jerry figurines, but with a few erasers out there somewhere maybe, and the inevitable sticker sheets, this could be about it, with the other day's pencil tops, Corgi's battling carts and the Marx figures we looked at a lo-o-o-o-onng time ago! Top of second image down.

Actually, a quick search on feebleBay reveals lots of Tom & Jerry stuff, of which several are from Kinder and we will look at the 'swoppet' plug-together's (Oh, are they stick-figures?) some other time, but these Kinder solids were to-hand the other day so I took a few quick shots.

All from the same set, we get them picnicking and surfing! Issued in most jurisdictions at various times between 2003 (K) and 2006 (MTG), they aren't particularly uncommon and 'book' at about €3, but check the cake-decoration section (or whatever your trick is for finding stuff) of evilBay for unattributed ones and you'll find them cheaper! They are all two- or three-part clip-together.

Five of eight, I'm missing Tom bar-b-que'ing and both of them weight-lifting, but listing things I'm not showing you is a bit silly isn't it? Listing things someone else had already shown and which I can't show you would be even sillier, huh?!!

T is for Two - Popular Personality Pencil Tops

All at sixes and nines this week, so things have slipped slightly, but I fired these off earlier tonight while shooting other stuff, intending to get them up here as a quickie, which I've done!

Tom & Jerry! They are the same size thought, unlike Marx's large size TV 'Tinykin' types, but still fun, sculpts don't quite capture them accurately either, which initially lead me to wonder if they might be unlicensed knock-offs, but they have the MGM mark, and there aren't so many Tom & Jerry items out there (now owned by Warner Bros.), therefore a nice addition to the oeuvre!

Turns out We saw a packeted set here!

These are knock-offs I think; there are Wizard and Punk Smurfs in Google results, but they don't look much like these two, however plastic colour screams 'We're Smurfs; buy us if you like Smurfs', so  . . . no; we don't like, horrid little bootleg nasties - yah, boo, sucks to you, fake Smurfs!

P is for Paltry Plastic Packet of Popular Pugilistic Polymer Pencil Perching Pals

I know, but sometimes once it's in your head you have to use it or you don't get it out of your head!

We like figural pencil-tops here at Small Scale World, we like plastic personages and we like Tom & Jerry, so that's alright then . . . Phew!

Scale's a bit shot, if I was Tom I don't think I'd be looking quite so unconcerned at the situation, Jerry obviously had his spinach for breakfast, his pintaday and put muck in his boots and - to be fair - Tom's looking a tad effete, maybe he's turned-over a new leaf! Brilliant!

H is for Heliotrope Hunter

Here's a quick addition to the growing bendy-toy sub-collection/trope and/or the growing Pink Panther sub-collection, or even a bit of a follow-up to a recent Blog-post on the Jolly Jaguar.

A modern (marked 2006) bendy from the - now - superhero experts NJ Croce! Tail's a bit chewed! But he's a happy looking chap, and quite like the TV/Movie original, now credited to MGM rather the the United Artists of older Pink Panther toys.

Ol' Rinky-Dink's gotta' tramp-stamp!

M is for Miscellaneous

A bit of a follow-up on previous posts and some new stuff, which came about after a follower; 'Gerhard' from Germany - sent me a few pictures the other day...

These are both from him, in the upper shot a handful of the Mundi/Dunkin type animals we looked at, ooh....over a year ago now? New colours and they apparently came 3 to a bag from Tito, who seem to have generated a lot of these 'premiums'.

Below is a near full-set with the various Deer/Antelope that were missing from the original post so we can now compare them with the bag-art shown then.

The blue Bear (third from right - bottom row) and the brown Kangaroo seem to be from other sets/sources.

The Photographs have loaded the wrong way, but I can't be arsed to sort it out or re-load them, so this was going to be the last image (a bit of a 'round-up') but is here instead!

Three Bonitos tube tops, there were 5 in total I believe, and the full set can be seen in one of the Konrad books. Above them are some larger (nominally 54mm) Tom & Jerry character models, the First Tom from the left and the Jerry from the far Right are the common versions, made by Marx probably in Hong Kong for the Swansea works. The Jerry on a block of cheese, is not marked with a makers logo, but has the license info clearly displayed, he also looks as if he was designed to be standing on a pencil sharpener but there is neither a sharpener in situ or the hole for one, so I suspect he's more the sort of thing you'd find in a card shop like Hallmark or 'Birthdays'. The other Tom I used to think was a shrinkage variation but closer inspection reveals he's quite different, and may be a re-sculpt following damage to the original mould? Probably all Marx, just different sources, some may be for Swansea?

Below them is a Jecsan Yogi Bear from Spain and a Boo-boo from - I don't know where! He is clearly supposed to be holding an umbrella which is missing the parasol and looks like he could be Blue Box or Lucky? Might be Marx Swansea again!

The last shot is a Hong Kong Christmas Cracker toy using pirates of the Marx Fairykins Jack and Jill to produce a see-saw 'action' toy! The originals are the painted ones.

Apparently these are mostly Nabisco Foods cereal premiums, the four Flintstones characters to the right are from a more modern set, maybe a pocket-toy fold-away diorama/play set thing? The Disney Robin Hood set is factory over-production and a shed-load were doing the rounds of shows a few years ago.

One of the reasons I'm always saying this stuff is not rare is that once you've made the machine-tool/mould it's easy to churn them out until you're blue in the face, they then pile up at various stages of their life cycle...producer factory, packer, distributor, outworkers (if they are painted) etc...and depending on when or why they are withdrawn, you can guarantee someone will find a box-full 15 years later!

07-01-2013 - Both the above are now identified as Tatra mouldings.

More Tatra for Nabisco - I think (input on all the last four sets appreciated) with two Tito marked characters from the same movie at the bottom right. I though they were from 'The Lady and The Tramp' but apparently is something called 'Aristocats'...showing my age again!!

So there are a few curiosities from the land of food premiums, mostly 1970's or early 1980's, and thanks again to Gerhard for the images.