Retro Space Stationary! It almost trips off the tongue like it's a real 'thing', but then we've seen on the Blog, this year at least, it HAS been a real thing! These are sets' six and seven I think since January, with the two larger sized sets from Home Bargains a year or two ago, and another set a few years before them, but this has been THE year!
So, these came from Rymans back in April, although I think they are still in there, and when looking just now at exactly how many of these sets we'd seen this year I could only find four under the 'Eraser' Tag, as I think several were in the Toy Fair/Gift Fair posts, and this may have originally been one, we did look at Legami's stand I think. I also got the Panda USB stick/dongle, going cheap!
Only the Astronaut in this set, and his visor is a coloured plastic transparency, rather than more eraser material. Which is another minor bugbear about these posts, over here, in the UK we call them rubbers, or pencil rubbers, and because my PC knows it's in the UK, with UK settings, I get the blue-line from spellchecker every time I write 'eraser' with the option to change it to 'rubber', and the question "Do you wish to switch to American English"!
Or worse, a full admonishment; "Eraser is a common American expression. Consider using expressions more common to British English", which is daft in itself, as there's no such thing as British English, there's English, named after England, with regional accents, but we don't call them Scottish English, or Geordie English, we call them the Scottish and Geordie accents, otherwise we'd have to have an English-English!
Likewise, we talk of Canadian or Australian accents, not Canadian or Australian English, there IS an American English, because Noah Webster decided, arbitrarily, to 'simplify' some spellings, over those already established by the Oxford and Cambridge university dictionaries.
I actually decided to use eraser, way back when I first blogged them - The Diener robots/aliens, I think; 2009 - as I knew more people would likely search for that term, but in those days there was no impertinent spellchecker, hovering over my metaphorical e-Shoulder!
Not the best shot, but he joined the stash, back in April/May!
Then I picked this up the other day, no, yesterday-evening! In TXMaxx, Astronaut - check! Dodgy satellite - check! Retro-rocket - check! Planet - check! With planetary rings - bargain! Claiming to be designed in the UK (but made in China) by a Tinc (which may be a graphical branding of 'T' Inc.,?
The four items in close up, very much mirroring other items seen this year.
Quite the little steckfiguren, isn't he!
