F is for Follow-up's to Donation Posts

A few things which have been raised after recent posting one way or another. The cream-white Cowboy flat's from Chris HAD had a mark, not only that but originally I had an email chat with Chris, in which they came up, so how I forgot I don't know, elsewhere it gets excused as brain-freeze I believe, I'm blaming the amount of stuff which has come in recently, and the fact that it keeps going to storage in dribs & drabs!

Anyway, I've adjusted the post and added Vortella Plastic to the tag-list, as that was the mark!

Further to Spectrum Steve's ID of the Pink Panther as being Dinky, I shot him with a few others which have come in recently, and so above, from the left we have Yolanda large and Yolanda small; both in the style of bendies, but actaully 'solids' from Spain, a duplicate key ring from a set we saw a year or two ago, another key-ring, probably Hong Kong, but new to me and then the Dinky, on the end.

While the bad guy from the Black Caldron cereal premiums in the same post hadn't been undercoated for painting, well, actually he had . . . but that wasn't the comment-worthy thing about him - he was a home-cast copy in solid pewter/whitemetal!

A comparison between the new - white - duck and the older 'Hubley' one in red, except all the Hubley's I can find are shades of brown, or white, while I have black, red and yellow, so possibly a European mould-swap or license involved there? The new one is a nicer sculpt with better wing-definition, and feet - more realistic overall.

I've also had a few more of the approximately 54mm Xandria's come in since Theo's stuff was posted, I think I said four were in the post at the time, but I forgot I'd had a fifth come in with a mixed Key-ring lot, a while ago; the lady on the left.

From the left; Unknown (Cinderella trying on the slipper from the fairy tale 'Pixies'?), Krent Kruidenier (Krent the grocer. a De Betuwe jam premium, seen before), Pied Piper of Hamlyn (Grimm's?), Bertje Big (Bertie Pig (?), another De Betuwe jam premium) and a Witch - another fairy tale Pixie?

Note Bertje's over-all PVC-vinyl trousers, the pattern making him look just like Podgy Pig from Rupert Bear, in his tweeds, who - when rendered in colour - is also often drawn as white, rather than pink? As Rupert dates from the 1920's, any plagiarism is Dutch I'm afraid! But, 1950's fashion on the farm, where you find pigs . . . I suspect more of a parallel evolution, there's only so many ways to anthropomorphise an animal so it's still recognisable!

C is for Chris's Autumn Parcel - Everything Else!

Basically, TV & movie related, Sci-Fi and Fantasy figures and a spaceman who might be a diver (or a skydiver), but who is more spaceman than diver (or skydiver) when compared with the divers who were nearly spacemen (but not skydivers) in the previous post!

Kid's TV! A Paddington pencil-top, I think he's missing a hat, but I might have a spare one somewhere, or a Hong Kong cowboy 'Swoppet' hat in red or blue can suffice! In the middle is a new Pink Panther, while the Big Ears is from a Budgie toy tricycle I think?

A Santa's sleigh, weighed-down with presents; hard polystyrene and hollow, there's a catch-like hole in the front-end which suggests he may have been clipped to something like a musical box, or that there was a deer-team with a T-bar 'key'?

There was going to be some more cake-decoration posts this month, but I think they're going to be pushed back to next year now, especially if I get the Nativities finished first! We'll see how the holiday week goes after tomorrow's cooking!

Fantasy; with a Kellogg's black cauldron figure in the middle, undercoated for painting, he's a home-cast pewter/whitemetal copy, the originals were in typical premium colours! To the left is a Chinese Lord of the Rings knock-off, I think? Again, it went to storage before I'd taken notes or paid attention! With a C.S. Lewis 'Narnia' toy to the right from Disney/Walden, we've seen a couple before here.

A fantasy board game figure on the left, but on the right is a fascinating thing, which has some of the properties of a paperclip, and Chris wondered if it might be the logo/mascot of a hotel or restaurant, and have been used to hold menus or a welcome pack (fire-regulations?) in a  motel-room or something like that?

Does anyone recognise the slightly devilish fantasy warrior type? Equally it might hold dividers together on a board-game so players can't see what's happening on the other side of the board?

We've see these before too - classic Christmas cracker novelty! Not sure if we've seen an elephant, I know I have a bear in orange/yellow, but love this shite! This is the stuff which makes Christmas memories when you're five!

Lik Be's legacy written over two of them, but no LB here! A Marx 'Mystery Spaceship' alien in the less common (?) red, as against the Orange/Green set we saw here, along with a robot sucker and mini-astronaut, and both LB piracies.

Eclectic line-up here, Galoob knock-off called Soldier Force (imported into the US by James Alex Imports, don't know who handled them here?), Acme novelty mini-Autobot and a 'Gumball' pencil-top of an Ultraman, Gatchaman, Battle of the Planets, or Astro Boy character?

A later Autobot/Transformer type key ring, a stylised/deform Dr. Who (last but one?) from a maker I've missed and a Character Options Cyberman make-up this trio of more recent Sci-Fi stuff.

A lead Sci-Fi lady, which I'm hoping Terranova might be able to help us with, as I know he has dealt with some of these 'new production' whitemetal companies, but I don't think she's from the Dan Dare set?

The second one is a rubber/PVC material and a solid, similar to some of Yolanda's stuff but not them, while the third is a Dragon Ball character, possibly Ultimate Gohan?

Half a Tente spaceman from Spain, who will go with the others to find or await his legs, and the Spaceman who might be a diver (or skydiver), he definitely held-on to something with his ring-hands and looks quite modern, but the backpack is not really a SCUBA set, nor a decent life-support system, or a parachute pack?

Should have been in the previous post! The three painted ones up the top are all interesting, one is clearly a casualty from a toy ambulance, but quite a big one, anybody recognise him to ID it? Next to him on the right is a farm type in the New Ray style while the kneeling chap with treasure (?) box may be from a movie-related set?

The ruing guy is actually roller-skating, and looks like various figures from Accoutrements/Archie McFee, but I don't recognise him? The small farm figures are Smart Toys while the babe in flares is probably a Homie? Another of those Chauffeur/Doorman types, and a Marx baby-jesus, which is rather fitting, right now!

Finishing with a rather gruesome trio - for the time of year - I'm afraid, but that's how I shot them and that's the order in which they were cropped/collaged. In the style of Safari, but with heavier painting/weathering and similar to the horrid hags from the aforementioned Accoutrements/Archie McFee but smaller and a harder rubber-like material, they are both a nice surprise and a mystery! Some blind-bag gaming thing maybe; they look like Monsters in my Pocket should have looked like!

Which brings us to the end of Chris's donation, so many, many thanks to him for going to the trouble of putting them all to one side, saving them-up and sending them, I hope you've enjoyed looking at them, and maybe ID'd something in your odd's pile?

I've missed the Blog's birthday again, but this should get us one post from fifth-best year for posting, which is a minor miracle given what's going on in the background! So I'll wish you all a happy Christmas for tomorrow, and be merry!

C is for Carmine-Coloured Capsule-Cats

Love these! I only have four, I think there are about 12 from Kinder? Plus some solid, single-piece ones, but as a box ticker these four will do. I love them because I loved the cartoons, they were so chic, so stylish, it's like someone in the 1950's made some colour cartoons and hid them until the 1970's!

Although two of them have an almost uniquely British theme (bobby on the investigation and ceremonial guardsman) I believe they had a pan-European issue and aren't terribly rare, but are still among the more pricey Kinder items on evilBay, due to the very small stickers they need to be found with.

They are full-on 'Steckfiguren', but with the hands, feet, head, tail and legs all identical, there's no real 'swoppet' element, more 'push' or pop-together.

I like the little toe-beans on the underside of the feet, while the very-small looking red-component for the nose is actually a [hidden] larger component, so little fingers (perhaps with a parents help) can put them together. Note also; his rife is a pop-gun with a cork!

As well as the eyes, most models also have some other stick-ons, along with a  small sticker of the model for fridge, wardrobe door or bedstead/headboard . . . parents who don't allow a sticker agglomeration area aren't proper parents! That's it; Kinder, Pink Panthers - box ticked.

J is for Jumping Jazzberry Jaguar

I picked-up a nice mixed lot of jumpers a while ago, I think we've seen several now already, but there's a couple of 'jiggler' type monsters still to come, in the meantime and as a continuation of one of the side-collections, there was this Pink Panther.

Not a lot to add to the pictures, but you want to try and get three lines out of it to keep the Google-bots happy, so extra images for colour variation against different backgrounds and note he's wearing PE-kit of 'singlet & shorts' and looks happy anticipating his violent acceleration along a random trajectory with a 50/50 chance of landing on his head!

Marked-up to Hong Kong with a haloed globe and the letters HF (heliotrope feline!), I test fired him and he leapt about three feet . . . and landed on his head! Testing was in the interests of research of course, I'm a grown-up, I don't play!

This chap came in with a mixed lot at some point, I think. His natty jacket and hat also happen to match the sucker-pad on the one above, colour-wise, and I thought I might have him in the four we saw a while back, but he's new (there was one with a top-hat in that other set), and is probably from another set of four from the same source as last time.

F is for Fuchsia-Flushed Feline

As well as 'the year of the footballers', 2018 has also been the year of the carmine cougar, here on Small Scale World; equally accidentally, although with some design in the middle of the year when I looked for a few on feeBay! There weren't many in the storage lots, but three have turned-up in time to be posted before the year's end!

The key-ring we've seen before, around 50mm and old-school PVC, the 'green panther' is an old European premium (Olà Ice Cream?) in polyethylene and showing all the signatures of Tito except the mark, while the bike must have been Corgi's entry for novelty vehicle of 1979!

A rocket-firing, low-raked, street-fighter! What the fuck's that all about, the Pink Panther may have covered his little nemesis in paint occasionally, even helped him down a few holes in the road or pavement, but last time I looked he wasn't a cold-blooded killer?

The cowling is a styrene polymer and can be damaged if it comes into contact with the PVC cat, while the die-cast body has polyethylene wheels and I think this probably went in a little sub-set with the Muttley thing?

C is for Coral Cougar!

Following my find of the foot-balling PinkPanther back in June (actually I think it was May . . .mas nicht!) I had a quick search on-line and found a bunch of them going cheap, so grabbed them while I could and they were going to be a quick follow-up, but got lost on the PC.

I found them again but rack-toy month had got going and I was running-about with the move and stuff, then they sort of got forgotten in September, by which time I had found another!

I've since seen several sets of four, various odds and another larger lot, so not rare, but fun! Baseball, basket ball, footballer (seen before) and a surfer-dude; Panthers pink from head to toe.

There appear to be two versions, one fully stamped with licensing stuff, the other blank, and at least 20-years old, so probably actual PVC not one of the modern synthetic substitutes.

I picked this-up as a make-weight in a mixed handful at the recent Sandown Park show, Yolanda's err . . . Orange Panther! Full evening dress, spats and a bunch of flowers, he's clearly off to woo a lady-girl panther - is she pink . . . or orange? I'm guessing he's from a set of more than one pose!

K is fur der Karmine Katzen ist so Kühl wie eine Kukumber Johnny!

Said Wulf Sternhammer, and he knew what he was talking about; I hope, 'cos no one else did! More pink Panthers, for such rare and unusual animals there are a lot about!

50mm PVC-alike (I'm preparing a page on polymers, after it's published I'll start referring to a lot of this 'PVC' as 'elastomer' which covers a multitude of sins) figurines which some of you may have seen on feebleBay, from whence I got these a couple of weeks ago, I'm on a bit of a Pink Panther hunt at the moment - among other things!

Each of them is greeting in some way with one hand, greetings being a 'high-four', 'got-cha'covered' finger-point, OK sign (not clear but it looks better 'in the polymer flesh'), a thumbs-up, a hat-doffed in greeting and a 'good idea' or 'agree with that' type finger-point.

Down the drive-through watching baseball on the big screen! I bought these from https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/391944784951 for £2.69p (free postage!), which is less than 45p-each and it was the first time I've purchased one of these direct from China lots, I can report there were no problems, they arrived from Hong Kong within a week, and the automated postal label had been ticked 'gift', so nothing evil doing at Heathrow either, you can pay £3 postage and have bigger problems buying something similar from 50-miles away.

Gangs of New Holland! What's rather comical is that apparently Pink Panthers can be naked to play table tennis, go to the theatre , play basket-ball, woo a lady panther (with a bunch of clover? Probably cat-nip!) or sit about doing nothing, but - get your camera out and you'd better-be probably dressed young cat!

And; when I say "Naked", a dickey-bow seems de rigueur!

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!

P is for PVC Puce Puma and his Pals

With Corgi, Kinder, a bendy (or two) and other key-rings I have about a dozen Pink Panthers' now, and this is the latest acquisition . . .

 . . . although quite new and generic (marked '© 1995 UA China') he's a fine example of a rare animal, never seen in the wild, and a footballer to boot! Around 50mm and a bit chunky with an odd-shaped not-really-united-artists-pink-panther head; he looks like he's swallowed a rugby-ball in that cartoon fashion!

Indeed, the divergence from the usual Pink Panther shape/design suggests that despite the UA validation, it's likely an unlicensed knock-off?

A trio of the previously seen ♫♩"Panthers pink-from-head tooo-towwwww"♩♩♫ . I will try to remember to prioritise the Kinder examples when I get the rest out of storage in a month or so. I've also introduced a PP tag, and won't retro-tag the posts they originally appeared in.

I hadn't realised how tatty the damaged key-ring was until I compared him with the others, I think I have another in storage the same, so he may yet go to recycling! I know I have a bendy in storage but probably also the same sculpt as the one which came in a while ago!