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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Showing posts with label Playwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Playwell. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

S is for Submarine - on a Card

I purchased this at the same time as the Tank in a Tin although it was a more reasonable pocket-money price of three-quid-odd I think? Also; it's the 3rd or 4th 4M thing to appear in the Blog now and I think I muttered 'up and coming' last time!

4 893156 032126; 4M; Baking Powder Toy; Baking Soda Toy; Bath Toy; Carded Toy; Diving Submarine; Great Gizmos; Interactive Toys; Playwell; JE609930; Kidzlab; Novelties; Novelty Submarine; Novelty Toy; Rack Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Submarine; Toysmith; Water Toy; Waterstone's;
I love the card-art, an ocean filled with submarines like a school of dolphins, but then I guess a German wolf-pack would have looked something like that - if visibility in the North Sea was anything like an artist's imagination!

4 893156 032126; 4M; Baking Powder Toy; Baking Soda Toy; Bath Toy; Carded Toy; Diving Submarine; Great Gizmos; Interactive Toys; Playwell; JE609930; Kidzlab; Novelties; Novelty Submarine; Novelty Toy; Rack Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Submarine; Toysmith; Water Toy; Waterstone's;
Because it's not that long since the last 'Subs' round-up I've no other images to fill the post with, so it's just a case of here it is; another bath toy, submarine. The slot for the coning-tower is slightly tapered so you can't put it back in the wrong way - helps the watch-officer navigate if he knows which way his 'fish' is pointing!

Shades of the old Kellogg's sub in the deck-slots and shades of another, more silvery modern one, in polystyrene (this one is propylene I think, with a nylon plug) which we've seen here before at Small Scale World, another novelty baking-soda submarine, or baking powder, it's all the same stuff!

Shipper's are Great Gizmos in the UK, Toysmith in the US and Playwell in Canada.