N is for Not That Long Ago, in the Galaxy We Share . . .

. . . I scored a couple of Star Wars items, the middle of August to be exact, and having another hanging around, a small post was born . . . phffft . . . that's a different movie!

I think this must be either an unmarked McDonald's type premium (which is unusual; their stuff is usually clearly marked?), or some bootleg market-stall rack toy type thing? I don't remember it being marked anyway, but as it was not working I'd already decided to take it apart for the figure. Is that crown the Burger King logo or the new movie graphics? Kylo Ren?

A light-sabre will cut through anything! The funny thing was it started making Star Wars noises and flashing as I was taking it apart - it clearly had a loose connection somewhere - and for clues to origin I took similar equipment out of those Tiger Electronics spaceships and Speeders when I added them to the Galoob fleet a decade or more ago now?

From the same Charity shop (and the same collection?), I also got the C3PO jiggler, like a bobble-head he is articulated, but at the waist, and he jiggles like a hula-girl at the slightest movement. He's unmarked apart from a single figure '15' on the underside of the base, and while construction seems simple, it is robust, even the push-on base can't then be removed due to a sharp shoulder on the pegs.

Go Berserker! Get him while he's posing for the camera! . . .

. . . the final item in the line-up is the Stormtrooper toothbrush Peter Evans had chucked in the big bags at Plastic Warrior's show! I'm using it, not on my teeth mind; to clean dirty toys!

For some reason it is called 'Firefly' which is also another movie altogether? And is carried by Dr. Fresh in the US and Canada; Grosvenor Consumer Products here. It came with a spinning Power Rangers Biro-topper TV thing!

T is for Toothbrush!

A bit unusual - tonight's offering! Both my Brother and I had these when we were kids, it would have been about 1968/'70 and I can't remember who had the pink or who had the blue! What I do remember is that they came with a yellowish-pink toothpaste that was supposed to be strawberry flavour and in fact tasted of a mixture between banana baby-food and colonic worm-powder!...hey, we ate a lot of raw veg in the '60's!!

Manufactured by Halex, who still seem to be manufacturing a wide range of sports and domestic/household products, there's little else to add, they are about 40mm, figural flats if you remove them from the rest of the handle and a little nostalgia hit for people of a certain age!