This
is a right old Picasa-clearing, box-ticking, bag of bones today with nods of
thanks to Brian Burke and Peter Evans for 'shelfies' and/or samples and a
couple of images that have been on my 'phone since 2011!
Getting
the aforementioned out of the way first; I can't even remember where I shot
these, but it was in November 2011, as I was moving so it could have been
anywhere! Looks to be HTI the - then
- new branding for Halsall [Toys
International] and the figures are about 45mm, we'll look at the firemen from
the twin-set tomorrow.
A
rather busty police-woman who's been put in 'shirt-sleeve' order to advertise
her charms, while her colleague keeps his tunic on! And would you say the
uniforms are actually quite Chinese, despite the international [play-value]
feel of the rest of the contents?
These
should have been in last year's Rack Toy Month (as should a few other things in
this year's!), but they got held over. The figures are well sculpted, but a
little wooden in their dynamism and have been issued under various brands; here
claimed by Regent Products' sub-brand
of Good Old Values.
Duplication
of pose between sets (which have figure-specific blisters so it's meant) would
require quite an outlay to find all the poses, but they do turn-up in other
brands packaging or loose on eBay occasionally.
Brian
pointed out that the mock-up of a shoulder patch on the Regent packaging is missing the NYPD (New York Police Department)
of a genuine ESU original, so it can
be assumed this is an unlicensed 'tribute-act' rather than any kind of official
'homage', and as such - a slightly
distasteful exploitation of peoples goodwill; we're talking 9:11 and its
aftermath here?
Also
from last year (but 2009-marked stock) is Jaru's
set Police Emergency Rescue with the police sculpts/figures in both blue and
red (and with poses I still have to track down). All that; for five dollars?
Bargain!
While
this year Brian sent shelfies of Imperial's
offering which appears to have the same boat as Jaru's, but all stickered-up, along with the same road/traffic
signs but a mix of figure poses from two of the sets below.
Note
that the importers are Greenbriar/DTSC,
while Imperial are a US-based seller
in their own right, a fourth unknown 'name' will be the shipper and the factory
- a fifth!
We
looked at some of these last year, some a few years ago but I think new poses
have joined the first row, courtesy of Peter's 'Big Bag', while I grabbed a few
others of the same vague size. The figures in the Imperial bag contain poses from both the Jaru and the Top Toy sets
but in a better quality than the Top Toys.
Top Toys/Imperial (and others!) are
also taking from Fishel in the pose
department, while the unknowns at the bottom pay some homage with the pistol-firer
almost a mirror-reverse. It should also be noted that while having new poses
the Jaru bagged set above has
flat-based figures, not the slightly hollowed-out ones sent to the Blog by
Brian last year and shown here.
I
almost forgot - Brian had sent me this ages ago, too cool for police-college; he's
painted up a bunch of unknown police and the Jaru radio guy as what I believe (Brian'll correct me if I'm
wrong!) represent Dan Dare
space-police in 'planet-side' uniform!
Looking
at the guy reaching for his 'piece the others may be additional poses from my
unknown last row, but then the shooting-with-bull-horn looks like one of the
poses from the larger Jaru bagged
set, are they one and the same? Or are mine poorer, 2nd-generation copies of
the Jaru 'originals'?
