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I’m a 62-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 SpongeBob SquarePants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SpongeBob SquarePants. Show all posts

Monday, October 26, 2026

T is for They Did What???

You won't believe what they've done? But first, to other things, as this is Brian Berke's findings on a recent visit to Dollar Tree, on the look-out for Halloween stuff, or other figurals, and I'm posting them in shot-order!
 
Starting with more erasers, and we like erasers here, I don't know why they switched the position of the pumpkin and Dr's Monster under the blister, but not the spider, however, it must be a nightmare packaging for someone with OCD, and on two levels! Either fully reverse the order, or keep the order on both levels, but this? The horror . . . the horror!
 
Loving these, the ghost is similar to the one we saw, also from Brian, the other day, but the cat looks to be an Iwako knock-off? Given that Iwako do two mouldings in a dozen or more colourways, and one of those has already been copied, someone with a limited budget, or limited space, could start just collecting Iwako and similar cats! And nothing to upset an OCD sufferer here!
 
White button toy, it looks like a walker, but claims to be a jumper, so might be a combination jumping-walker, it's probably only another piece of eccentric bent wire under the case? There are some more white button toys to come. Seasonal Collection looks like a Dollar Tree branding?
 


Rather nice, if slightly large solids from Harry Potter, depicting Hermione, Harry and Ron, I can't see any kind of brand or brand mark, so they may be Dollar Tree exclusives? But . . . look what they did!!!! . . . 
 



. . . they killed SpongeBob SquarePants and his friends, killed them and stripped every scrap of flesh from their bones! Who could do such a thing? Legend Toys with/for Niclkleodeon, that's who; the despicable monsters! And SpongeBob does not look happy!
 

No link to Halloween, but I rather like the M (for Marvel) bases on these, also solid figurines, Hasbro marked, I think these are what are now called 'classic' versions, the new movies having taken them to a far darker and more GCI'd sci-fi place!
 
Thanks, as always, to Brian, for shooting these for us, and he has sent one more item, the most horrible, terrible nightmare-inducing thing ever to be sold to kids, but I'm saving that for the 31st!