O is for Once Upon a Time, in June! Sci-Fi, Fantasy, TV & Movie

As a complete contrast to Pirates, this is the stuff of a whackier nature I picked up at last June's Plastic Warrior show, not as much in this category as some years, but a couple of really quirky things, a nice box-ticker, and a rarity or two!

 

A T-Rex, on a skateboard, waving an axe? It doesn't get much weirder than that, except it's just about to! And while it may be Kinder, it could be a lesser make of capsule-egg, or even a gum-ball type thing?

 

The Heudebert marked copy of a Captain Video figure was a lovely find, and while the original is one prone to damage, here they've shortened the firearm into more of a pistol, and despite the fine barrel, it has survived! While the actually Kinder gnome, is standing front of the Lone Star toadstool house!

 

And no, this is not where it gets weirder, this is pretty weird, but not the real weirdness! A money-box/bank, made by the same division that was responsible for the rubber pet-toys and squeakers, this is a stable (non-weeping) PVC, issued under the Eaglet branding.

 

This is the box ticker, a set of the Toys R Us bucket set True Legends - Mythical Warriors fantasy figures, one of each pose, so someone was offloading their master set? I've seen them credited to both Toy Major AND Chap Mai, it's likely to have been one or the other, and with other True Legend sets having the Toy Major sleleton warriors, for now, I'll go with them. Brian Berke did send us a handful of these, a while back, but no one ID'd them at the time!

 

Weirdness, but still not the weirdest, the Alien is about seven inches, and while made of rubber, seems to have a very solid interior, like it's metal underneath, you could certainly use it as a cosh! UFO lawn-skittles maybe?

 

The Wonder Woman is a cord-tie type thing, I've seen others, for school-bags or whatever, sometimes they are a keychain type thing . . . I don't know, I'm blagging it, off vague memories of things seen, out and about, it was in one of the donation bags!

 

From the right . . . no, the RIGHT, we have another of the larger Captain Video space/GI figures from Lido Archer, then an unknown figure which looks both character-driven and a bit Phidal-looking, but probably not actually by them, maybe a Ben 10 thing?

 

In the middle is the female scarecrow, pencil-top, who looks like a line-up completer, for the John Pertwee era, Worzel Gummidge set; I don't recognise the character? I have three now, I think, and I assume there's at least four, so, with this and two Gummidge's, I suspect I'm still looking for a rendition of Una Stubb's Aunt Sally?

 

The monkey is a tea-bag premium I think, while on the far-left, is the real weirdness, it's so weird, it's been left-off the left of left-field! 

 

This was in a bunch of smaller bits from Adrian, and I looked at it and said something about 'fun' and 'homemade', and he looked a little hurt at my dismissal of his offering, and sure enough, when I got it home (my eyesight is getting shit! But I have got reading glasses now), it became clear that while, yes that is bread-bag ties for arms and legs, the whole assembly seems to have commercial thought, and actual design behind it?

 

Originally a cartoon dog keyring and pencil-topper, the green tie has been carefully designed to have the arm-and-leg twists run over the top of it, and down channels in the sides, so as it's pushed into the pencil cavity it holds everything tight. The boots are gum-ball charm, football boots, while the cartoon hands should have convinced me straight away.

 

Everything is PVC except the bag-ties, which are in a non-standard (for bag-ties) colour, and everything is filled/sealed with what looks like the plumbers-sealant I use for PVC mends. That someone ever thought this up, let-alone thought it might have commercial potential is extraordinary, but someone else looking at it, remembered something like them, in gum-ball capsule machines!

 

It's a commercially manufactured, 'homemade' bendy toy, gum ball prize! Of a dog, in a tie, with Mickey Mouse gloves, and football boots, with googly eyes!

 

A couple of Matchbox whatsit-2000 figures, an Aristocat cereal premium, an unknown . . . trash-panda? Kinder maybe? A phone-ornament/hanger, of Buzz Lightyear, an Autobot's fireable fist (?) and a Star Wars looking, action-figure sidearm!

 

Kinder either side, Daffy Duck as a plug-together 'Steckfigure', along with one of the cartoon 'deform' spacemen, but between them, in slightly marbled yellow plastic, too large for a Kinder egg, is a Res Plastic solid, of Speedy Gonzalez! And obviously punched for a key-ring or cord.

 

As I can never remember which of these Tinykins I have, I'll always buy them, if I see them going cheap, and these were reasonable, so I grabbed them. I think I have most of them, but the cousin-ducks are all different, and I don't know if I have all of them, and wasn't sure if any Thumper I have has both ears!
 

As before; thanks are due to - Issack, Graham Apperley, John Begg, Barney Brown, Brian Carrick, Peter Evans, Adrian Little, Michael Mordant-Smith, Trevor Rudkin, Steve Vickers, and with no emails since the intro-post, anyone else who gave me stuff, I've forgotten to add! Many thanks to all.

K is for Kinder's Klassic Kapsule Kombatants

When it comes to Kinder figures, these are among the most sought-after by the 54mm purists which gives them a bit of a premium they probably don't deserve, which makes them harder to collect purely on cost, but I have had some success except with the Egyptians, where I've only managed to find one - and I forgot to shoot him!

These aren't even that old; 1990's, yet there's one on evilBay at the moment for which the seller is asking £117! They. Are. Not. Rare. I've only been picking them up since about 2010 and I've managed to find between six or eight (?), some here and some in storage, now they're all in storage, and it's actually the ones which were in the garage we're looking at today.

Each was available in all four colours and bases seem to have been random with black or a few shades of green and they are hardly animated, a quick dry-brush of silver and they're best suited for the corridors or lobbies of large dolls houses! But lovely sculpts and - without being an expert on such things - from the high-point of armour design; sort of Tudor'beathan?

This is a 'phew' moment, the rather pathetic contents of my Samurai bag, now, we've seen the archer a few times here I think, in mixed lots, of which one was painted, the others damaged, so it's nice to be reminded I had a good one, also 1990's and a little smaller as around 50mm.

The torso however, kept as a spare part 'in case' is just what I need for one we saw recently in a lot from Chris Smith (last image), who's sword was broken, but was otherwise OK, and with only the two poses in the set I believe, I've now got them both in good condition, an irony as I used to give them away to friend's kids when I was a small-scale collector!

Also much sought-after, and also NOT RARE, because also only the 1990's, the Wellingtonians probably benefit from a firm gluing at the waist and a decent paint job, like the knights they came in four colours, and can all be found in each colour I think, so you can swap legs for variety, but they are really clip-together (or 'pop-together') rather than swoppets, although (and unlike the knights) can have their heads swapped, which might produce other units/ranks, if you know you Nappy uniforms?

Flyer for them, again I remember getting these and giving them away in the early 1990's, made for Kinder by Res Plastics (RP) of Milan, I don't think they ever got a separate issue, but they may have done, and certainly some dealers in the past seem to have cleared unused stock, while I've mentioned the current daft-price knight, there are some reasonable Italian (and German) eBayers selling ex-Capsule toys, often in sets for sensible sums.

Arguably (along with the Egyptians), the finest figures of their type in Kinder's oeuvre, the yellow-tan ones seem harder to find, and being more 'swoppet', they can get changed around, so I'm not sure there's four different here, but you will be looking for four of each leg-pair, torso, loin cloth, shield, necklace and headdress to have all of them, and a flyer would help which I'm also short-of, although there will be a reference picture in the O-ei-A guides.

We saw these back at the start of the blog, so just a reminder and all marked RP for Res, I'm pretty sure everything in this post is by them, and the change from the rather crude stuff which was issued in the 1950's is obvious. You can see in the left-hand bag, these because a source of 'vintage' space helmets for unscrupulous dealers, looking to enhance older figures or the German/Spanish bubblegum figures, so are harder to find intact now.

Other swoppet types were made for Kinder, or supplied to them while having separate issues by the likes of CGGC (Cane-Grisoni; mostly vehicles/motorcycles), Giocattolo, Techno Giodi, Giopi (Wild West) and others, and I do have a few for another day, indeed we've seen one or two here in the past (ACW, Tarzan) but most of them are a lot more fiddly (Wild West and Samurai), and some of them (pirates) are also rather daft-looking!

H is for How They Come In - June 2021 - 2 - Three Days in June

Toward the end of May last year I went a little mad on evilBay, call it shopping therapy, call it depression, call it extravagance . . . it wasn't a good time, there were no shows, lock-down was into its 26^th month and it's comforting to go and buy shit, however transitory the feeling it brings, so that's what I did! And I like to think I have a good eye, so it's all worth a look, these are some shots I took not long after the Postman had been!

Tuesday 8^th June - Parcels from the four corners of the world here, almost, with packages from Amazon, the USA, Ukraine and Greece all arriving together! From the latter came the Louizos Toys Wild West set, which I hope contains cowboys around 50/54mm and probably of the Solpa type, but I don't know as it's sealed, and having never seen one before I thought I'd better keep it sealed for now!

Below the unknown cowpokes we have a set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Hero Turtle Anthropomorphic knock-offs from the former Soviet Union, and bunch of Japanese glico-style spaceships and UFO's, but from the 'States, and a rather nice magnetic bottle-opener which was one of two I got in the last 18 months or so, I thought it looked like a Matchbox GI-copy, but it's closer to the Marx 60mm sculpt.

This single parcel arriving the next day was several lots from the same seller (Tony; a friend of the Blog), and contained all sorts of nice things, starting in the top left-hand corner, and moving vaguely clockwise - several swoppet knights, some Elastolin 54mm and some Hong Kong copies of Britains mounted Swoppets.

Below which is a handful of the RP issue of Co-Ma's Roman sculpts, with enough duplicates for me to send the five I hadn't previously been able to, to Peter, small thanks for all he sends to the blog, and who I'd originally sent my only one, we now both have a full set!

An empty swoppet box I can fill at some point! Two empty Airfix boxes and a bunch of loose Airfix figures, two of the new 1:144 war-gaming AFV's which have become popular, literally over the lifetime of the Blog! Below them are two Roskopf blisters, which are nice as I previously only had them loose, or in the small tan boxes, while in the bottom corner two sets of the Roco-Minitanks 'Artillery Group' (copies of Tamiya's 1:35th scale desert-attired 25lbr crew), so I will - at some point - make one up.

The 'box-square' of figures to their left are more modern HK/China (Rado) & Caesar and older Roco and Eidai figures in various amounts with a Japanese officer from Marx Miniature Masterpiece's lines.

To their left a mix of larger figures and above them smaller Giant, post-Giant and Montaplex, other HK figures of interest and a 45mm Ri-Toys (a.k.a. Rado) French soldier taken from Airfix. In the centre we have an Airfix boxed 6x6 truck, a post-Giant two-horsed, articulated chariot, Eidai FlaK's (one mounted on a  half-track) and Roco SPG.

While the 11^th brought a very eclectic mix, which I thought to shoot, but not the best photograph of the three, nevertheless full of nice things!

In the distance, lined-up on the laptop is some Comansi Wild West, but not just any-old Wild West, they are the five character sculpts (husband, wife, two kids and uncle) from the High Chaparral, in front of them some cake-decorations (I can't even remember - one looks Chinese?), a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea . . . heehee!) diver from Remco, another PVC bird from that set we looked at the other day and some Toy Major knights.

We saw the two Soviet-era AFV's back in the summer or autumn, the V2 will be made up at some point, I intend to compare all three - Condor, Eidai and Revell! While I'd forgotten the two Hong Kong AFV's, they are the same maker as the one we looked at the other day, so I'll be able to cannibalise one of the Dingo's to give the Humber it's missing set of wheels.

Other AFV's include two guns and the weird six-wheeled AMX30! Three swans (?) a bag of ? (something), and finally; a set of Supreme Saracen/Livonian type knights made up an eclectic list of arrivals. Most got sorted away quite quickly and sent up to the storage unit, some just packed in 'To be Sorted' boxes, so I will have the fun of discovering them all again at some point!

N is for Not Co-Ma . . . Except the Ones that Are!

Strangely these appeared on Shitestuff the other day, grandly announced to his eager readership by the 'legend' that is TJF (legend in his own lunchtime!) as Co-Ma figures, but . . . err . . . they aren't! Anyway, in the interests of setting things straight (again!) let's look at them here, now . . . and dispel a couple of recent myths!

I bought six (a 'set') of the seven above (we've looked at the gunmetal one - top left - in the past) at the recent PW show in Whitton/Twickenham, and - hurrying (so many bargains, so little time!) - failed to notice until I got them home that in fact half of them were Res Plastic's issues and the other half were the dwarfish copies/piracies of the original Co-Ma Romans and Barbari or (and henceforth-) 'Vikings'.

Knowing (after a call) that they would reappear at Sandown Park I prepared the above drawing (read scribble!) to help sort out any remaining figures (I knew they'd sold well on the day) and hopefully find some of the ones I needed.

Taking the picture above for the hell of it, I realised I didn't actually need the drawing, as I could just load the images of the figures back onto my camera and use that, so no real reason to subject you to my skeletal-zombie figures either, but I have!

Almost total success was achieved with another of the copies secured, and all three of the missing RP's truffle-hunted from the pile! The same Stadsshite post also explained to its readers that some of the figures had holes for weapons (as - of course - the Co-Ma originals did), this too was a failure of TJF's 'knowledge base' . . . and his abilities to study photographs; two of the figures have crude daggers where they used to have ring-hands in the original, which these aren't!

A similar exercise was carried-out with the Romans, but no similar success was forthcoming, so it's just the three to add to my Co-Ma originals and previously seen copy. It seems the 'fallen helmets' added to the bases (and passed on to the RP re-sculpts) were something conjured by the first copyists who made the above figures, each helmet lying approximately where a bump lays in the Co-Ma original's grass-etched bases.

A couple of comparisons; the copies are much smaller than the Co-Ma donors, but RP beefed them up again, a bit, and while the Co-Ma figures were hard polystyrene, the copies are a soft polyethylene. Note that the gold copy doesn't have horns, but rather two stumps or studs, which seems to be deliberate, but could be a short-short moulding?

More interestingly, the RP's are - mostly - also a soft polyethylene, but one or two of them are the harder ethylene or polypropylene of the gold Romans we've seen before . . . seen rather too much-of, some might feel, but I see Erwin was whinging (again) back at Christmas that he'd never used the RP's, even though the Vichy's limp-dicked hussar (born from the thigh of an angry, retarded troll) has taken my cropped enlargement of Erwin's 'Peruvian' RP figure to illustrate his (hussar's) RP entry in a spreadsheet!

Which is itself (the spreadsheet) equally interesting, as it's also full of my images, despite the limp-dick having gone on record as 'barely knowing' and 'rarely visiting' my site! But I'll be dealing with several of his utterances in a separate post.

They're all awful; the TJF & the PSTSM, the Vichy French and AFD's, along with the three lick-spittle Aussies (Hall, O'Connell and Pye)by turn ; hypocritical, shite-talking, envious, plagiarists, making it up as they go along, or sitting in other-people's dust and vociferously talking-up each other's nonsense in a group-hug of fuck-wittedness!

Although I let the gold RP go six-years ago, I had taken loads of images (although I think I'm using this one again? Doh!), so we can look at all three types together. Obviously, the Res' is scaled 'by eye' but when seen together, he will be found to be slightly larger than the copy but noticeably smaller than the Co-Ma original.

Co-Ma's sculpt is a well-proportioned, proud, graceful figure; sculpted with some care (for the 1950/60's), striking hard, two-handed, at an enemy he is clearly making eye-contact with, a sweeping stroke which will - hopefully - remove the protagonist's head!

The metallic-blue one is a much-poorer copy, the neck lost and the legs shortened leaving an over-developed torso. He is still 'in-line' with his base and remnants of the Co-Ma details (buttons and things) are there, but he's swinging his sword with less purpose!

While Res Plastic's figure is (like the rest of both their sets) a re-working, which seems to refer to both the previous versions; anatomy has improved toward the original, but the neck is still missing, the torso has been turned slightly, and with a further slight turn of the head he is swinging more wildly (in the 'ineffectual' rather than 'angry' sense of the word), the 'fallen helmet' has been cleaned-up (but retained), the buttons, however, have been replaced with some poor machine-tool marks aping the leather segments of the original's 'cuirass' - it's probably got some Latin name! Leatheretta-segmata jerkinius?

The fact that the slight musculature on the Co-Ma figure's right wrist/forearm has - by the incidence of the RP figure - become large welts or scales, suggests the employment of a pantograph in both copying exercises, but work has also been done by hand (body posing), and machine-tools (leather, 'fallen helmet') to change the copy-sculpts slightly.

Another comparison, Co-Ma to the left and two of the copies; I've placed a bit of Blue-Tac under the gold figure to give a suggestion of the missing RP version.

It is a fact, that despite seven or eight mentions, posts or forum threads on these figures over the last 24-months, here and with the derisible-duo, as yet, no evidence has come to light of fourth or fifth types, apart from that rather-odd set, looking like RP's but with hexagonal holes in their backs - where you might expect to find the RP marks! I believe they are an act of vandalism designed to win an argument - which the authors' had already lost?

There is little or no evidence of DSG figures either, except insofar as with both hard and soft plastic versions of RP-marked figures around, DSG may have run the mould (which they are known to hold, or have held) unchanged, or wholesaled/retailed the/some leftover RP-marked stock. I say "little or..." as - if they are genuine - the hex-hole figures seen on Shitestuff may be DSG, but they weren't presented as such by 'Cheech & Chong'!

Neither is there any empirical evidence of Basa having ever carried the Co-Ma figures (which they may have done) or produced their own copies - which they almost certainly didn't. As they (Sterwin) have led us round the garden-path several times trying to cover-up Erwin's original falsehood (that the gold RP's were Peruvian product), one has to ask why they still visit these figures? The figures announced the other day in the 'other place' (as he refers to me!) as ring-handed Co-Ma, are neither Co-Ma, nor ring-handed!

Indeed, while my own ministrations over the course of the debate have provided some facts by way of obvious conclusion, the pathetic pair of poltroons have provided piss-all of pertinence and only succeeded in confusing themselves and each other as we saw earlier in the journey!

The two figures have - in point of fact - been armed with crude daggers, made by simply drilling into one half of the tool and removing the little spigot with would have formed the hole in the hand, so that both the hole and the drill fill with polymer, creating a stumpy, stabbing instrument!

Or, at least, it would be how the originator might do it, the pirates' just avoid the hole while- (or fill it in before-) pantographing, and then only have to drill the stabber-stud!

On the subject of the copies; I don't know who produced them, it may be in the latest book on Italian figures (which I don't have), but I don't recall it being in the earlier volume (which I do have!), it'll probably be someone like Plasticrom (Cané/Grisoni), PRB or Ro-Plast who were all producing rack-toy/'bazaar' stuff and/or knock-offs, in the 1970's?

Given the metallic colours' similarity to those Cane 54/60-mil Vikings which were everywhere about fifteen/twenty years ago (I think PB Toys still have a load?), they may be a Grisoni branded thing?

One is tempted to wonder - given that other people produced several versions of their main earners (Britains khaki Infantry or Starlux combat troops for instance) whether Co-Ma were involved in the soft-plastic copies, but the copies are so poor, that seems unlikely.

True: Britains Hong Kong khaki infantry were as poor compared to their grandparents, but there was a longer period of time between the two generations, and the market had moved-on further when those late PVC atrocities came out of the Far-Eastern colony.

Comparison between the five 'pairs'; you wouldn't be hiding those shield-located marks so easily with a heated screwdriver!

When you look at something as closely as we've ended-up looking at these recently, you tend to end up with as many new questions as answers, and with these as well as who made the first set of copies it's also how Co-Ma allowed these copies to come-about, in the same country?

But looking - again - at Britains, who are known to have defended their intellectual property many times both in the hollow-cast and the plastic eras, yet still suffered loads of piracies, particularly of the khaki infantry, including a few UK-based companies, it may be that sometimes it's easier to turn a blind-eye than try to challenge in court, especially if slight changes to the sculpts will only provide a pay-day for the lawyers!

Also, Co-Ma did change direction, first toward kits and railway accessories, while by the 1980's they were producing more infant-targeted toys and big bath/beach stuff, and those changes seem to have begun quite soon, hence the interest in genuine examples of their [original] figures, in a sea of copies? Perhaps they granted permission for some of the cloning; perhaps they couldn't care because the clones weren't treading on their 'new lawn'?

E is for Erwin Watch - Part; the Somethingth!

That cock-whacking monkey-lizard Mr. Sell had a pop the other day (so did TJF actually, clearly they are getting nervous!) I am working on 'the big one' but in the meantime worth a quick look just to remind ourselves how utterly stupid he is.

He first posted this as 4:36pm local time, it reads - after the [charming] thread-quote is removed;

Such post-attack silly unfunded  maniac from UK using edited pictures  was responded here.

http://www.stadsstuff.com/?p=8882

and also here.

http://www.stadsstuff.com/?p=9096

When i post information  i back mine regardless i post all pictures or not ,yet i wait to respond with all i have and make him looks bad again.
I had never ever talk,write or post anything against this person at all ,he also have plenty enemies he had done himself out of his hate in many non toy related toys blogs.
He constantly uses derogatory ,racist words and comments that let few with desire read any of his puzzles sick comments
What is more sad is the fact that in UK they let this person post in magazines such PW when make looks entire british community looks bad .is a shame british let this person be part of collectors .
my thoughts.

Then (having got a couple of back-links posted for his paymaster) he posts it again . . .

 . . . at 4.43pm, just in case anyone missed it (and to get another two back-links posted for TJF), but also in very small text; presumably  in case anyone with the weirdest eye-condition known to man was struggling with the standard text, seven minutes previously!

Now there are two parts to his illiterate drivel, the re-hash of the Co-Ma/Basa thing which I'll deal with in a minute, and the frankly half-idiotic/half defamatory rant woven into the crucified syntax, massacred grammar and stab at spelling he calls 'thoughts'!

Same pack-drill as before - line by miserable line;

Such post-attack silly unfunded  maniac from UK using edited pictures 

Well, it needs translation I fear, but imagine what kind of maniac I'd make if I could get some funding from edited pictures!

When i post information  i back mine regardless

No he doesn't! In the same thread (on a pirate board-game figure) he states "The figures then sold as souvenir or loose in ITALY till well 90s by many companies around with sweet or chocolate as well as free toy gift as well." With no 'back' whatsoever, bear in mind he's said the same thing about another brand a day or two previously and it's not long since the German lollipop posts here - that's how it works; I lead, they follow; badly!

i post all pictures or not ,

Pretty much like the rest of us then? Sometimes we do . . . sometimes we don't! The man's too funny to be kept off the stage really.

yet i wait to respond with all i have and make him looks bad again.

I must have missed that load, was I carrying an umbrella? Good; I hate the smell of fish! He actually wants you to take him seriously, and - to be fair - some people are, but then you realise they too are strangers to the caps-lock and it's just a bunch of gobshites blowing-off.

I had never ever talk,write or post anything against this person at all ,

Except that which we are reading here? And his madness rant a month or two ago (below image)? And his original attacks on my Blue Box / Ri-Toy post which started all this nonsense, five-minutes after he got on-line? And his joint attack with TJF over Christmas 2016? And, and, and . . . he's a liar, a blatant liar, but some people, particularly the Vichy are lapping it up like hungry kittens rats!

Not a 'talk,write or post...against' me! Liar!

The tragedy is, as he's writing it - he probably believes it! And he knows the Vichy and the PSTSM will support and encourage it, and not just them; Carrick, Bergner, Dittman and others have chosen that side of the fence, instead of staying on the bloody thing!

[I will return to the above quote in a separate post as the main thrust of his premise (public self-therapy) pertains more to his paymaster (TJF) than it does to me!]

he also have plenty enemies he had done himself out of his hate in many non toy related toys blogs.

"Non toy related toys blogs"? Anyone? While you're trying to de-cipher that, maybe you could point me to any Blogs I have 'done myself out of', bar TJF's risible, drivellous, gray-area . . . obviously!

To my knowledge I haven't fallen foul of any other Blogs, although I have voluntarily stopped commenting on one or two - to save their blushes. Someone called James did stop following me the other day, but as I don't follow his and as he did so in a flourish of bilious (and political) hate on TJF's blog (so was therefore - clearly a TJF shill), it makes no difference to my situation and carries no significance for this Blog. And it's a tedious playing-peow-peow's-with-brum-brum's-on-the-carpet type Blog anyway.

He constantly uses derogatory ,racist words and comments that let few with desire read any of his puzzles sick comments 

Ah, yes! The defamatory bit. I have never used racism of any kind? Both Erwin Sell and Paul - The Jabbering Fuck - 'stads' Stadinger (TJF) have now accused me of racism, in public and in private - neither has given an example. The statements are defamatory.

I am beginning to suspect they are both so simple-mindedly stupid, ignorant and uneducated, that they don't actually know what racism is, nor comprehend the tenets behind it, or how to recognise it?

It's true I have been very derogatory, and will continue to be when this kind of shit is being written about me . . . by a fuckwit! Words AND comments? I must be overdoing it! Puzzles? Sick? It's almost enough to drive me to the smelling-salts! Constantly? How do I find time for everything else I'm 'guilty' of!

Even in my insulting derogatoriness I have veered away from the obvious targets, except in so far as originally christening them TJF and the Cock-whacking Monkey-lizard, which was both an amusing Star Wars reference, and - for those who know them - a bit close to the knuckle; but that was their fault for attacking me over Christmas!

What is more sad is the fact that in UK they let this person post in magazines such PW when make looks entire british community looks bad .is a shame british let this person be part of collectors .

The difficult one - In this war (which they started) they (Sell and TJF) keep trying to get other people involved - I try not to. Although I'm happy to shame those who choose to get involved.

What I would say is that I have picked up new supporters and the best part of a million hits in the last 12 months and those who choose to deal with me, do so for their own reasons and don't need Mr. Sell telling them what they should or should not do. The blog is going from strength to strength and I'm going nowhere else.

If, as a collector, you don't want me "be part of " you, have a word next time you see me and I'll try to disengage! And I only ever advise anyone / everyone not to get involved, sadly some have. The reasoning he must be using (at the level of  a12-year-old), must apply equally to Stadinger and himself, with regard the US 'community? But that's the hypocrisy of the two idiot's for you!

my thoughts.

No, no no! Not 'thoughts', his random keyboard jerks! Probably resulting from uncontrolled synaptic-sparks in the brain he appears to have borrowed from a solar-powered lawn-mower . . . too much sun!

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

So, that's his literary efforts dealt with, now back to the CoMa/Basa/Res Plastics thing, which was hilarious first time round, but which (by only posting links to one side) he is trying to misrepresent - and because TJF needs the traffic (for his SEO!)! But Googlebot doesn’t trawl locked-forums! Dum, they're both so dum.

If you missed it first time round it's complicated but well worth bringing together in one place, so it might as well be here! Let's thank him for raising the subject again after 18-months-odd (although; one has to ask why?) and dive in . . .

★★★★★

After I had pointed out that Erwin was wrong about my Blue Box and Ri-Toys post, they both got the arse big-time; inventing a whole port and industrial estate [Tain Sang - too funny] in Hong Kong - which doesn't exist! I pointed that out too - among a plethora of other things they'd cooked-up as they went along!

As a result they started having the odd pop at me over at plaid-stuff, suggesting I didn't know anything and was always wrong . . . so one day I pointed out that Erwin was making it up . . . again!

The funny thing was I only had the one figure, and I only had photographs of it! But it was all I needed.

★★★★★

He had tried to tell the Vichy that he was showing them Peruvian-made Basa Romans, while actually using Italian-made Res Plastics figures, I pointed out that the figures were RP and he was making it up as he went along - again. (E is for Erwin Watch - Res not Basa).

They (both were involved) then tried to make out A) I was wrong and B) he had not used RP figures (1^st link from Erwin above), by photographing some new figures (actually the same figures after someone had taken a screwdriver's hot hex-bit to them!) and claiming they were the figures he used - ergo; I was wrong.

So I went back to the Vichy thread, took screencap's of the RP-marked figures he had used (and which are still there!), compared them to mine and called them out for now lying about the lie! You can't make shit this up! Although; they try to! (I is for is it Res Plastic, Basa or DSG?).

This led to a spittle-flecked rant from Standinger (2^nd link from Erwin above) which attempted to paint me as a conspiracy theorist (I know - dum! But they get their learnin' from tabloids), with the aid of an spurious, additional, CoMa original! However by now, Erwin was getting shaky on the details in reply to someone's comment and they both ended up contradicting just about everything they'd said on the subject and each other.

I dealt with that, line-by-tedious-line in this post (Stads Watch / Erwin Watch - Back to Basa'ics !) and we moved on to Fontanini, Rojas plagiarism, the risible not-DSG thing and, well, most of you have followed enough of it to know what the flavour is!

Until the little-retch decided to resurrect it all the other day!

In the meantime I have shown the CoMa originals (or late production from those moulds) and another slightly different figure. With what came-out in the original spat, and what's turned-up since (R is for Romans! Co-Ma . . . et al!), it's clear that there are at least three sets of moulds;

• CoMa (Originals)
• Res Plastics (RP)
• Unknown (as yet)

And that the Res Plastics moulds went to DSG in Argentina, who may or may not have run them (or ex-RP stock) with or without the RP-mark and/or hex-driver holes. That there was a late issue of/from the CoMa tool and that there's a third 'cheapie' set - which may have been cleaned-up (or copied) to become the RP set?

At no point has anyone (at shitestuff, Vichy or here) shown a figure which can be authenticated as Basa, and while Basa may have worked with CoMa, there is little actual data on when or what the relationship was and no empirical evidence they specifically handled the Romans. If they did they would be the CoMa sculpts; which - ironically - Erwin also showed!

While Erwin - who claimed to have corresponded with Basa's owner - has failed to explain why he was (still is - thank God it's a locked forum) passing the RP-DSG sculpts off as Basa? Nor has he provided any evidence of this correspondence to 'win' his case.

And while the PSTSM shill's will bleat about me 'getting excited about mere toys', I am in fact responding to criticism (for 'criticism' read 'nasty, factually-inaccurate, illiterate, drivel'), while their self-proclaimed 'Legend' of a leader gets equally excited . . . about toys! Witness the second either of their posts.

And - this blog is err . . . about toys! When I blog on [more important] stuff like politics or the environment they get equally irate, so I can't win either way, but then; they're not a bright bunch, and if I can't win, I'll carry on regardless, being me; and they can go hang! Is that racist? Fuck'em!

The recent spate of attacks on stadsshite and over in Vichy are no doubt due to the fact that Christmas is coming, clearly; they are winding themselves up! I'll help!

Tatra next!

And if you're wondering about the apparent hypocrisy of the internal back-links I've managed to get into this post, actually Googlebot can mark you down for too-many of them, however I'd rather you find the stuff more easily, but then - I'm not the traffic-whore; TJF is.