Still feels a bit inappropriate to blather,
so on with the listings . . .
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 4th May 2019
Brecon, Wales - Chris Dyer Fairs
Market hall, Town Centre, Brecon, Powys,
Wales, LD3 7LG
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £2
Exeter - Events Frontier - Devcon
'19
Exeter Corn Exchange, Hele Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4JS, UK
Mob. - 07508 548 938
Hours unknown
Admission fee unknown
Sci-fi, film and comic convention
Hawkinge - SRP Toy Fairs
Hawkinge Community Centre, Heron Forstal
Avenue, Hawkinge, Kent, CT18 7FT
Mob. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission fee unknown
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Sunday 5th May 2019
Coventry - Barry Potter / BP Fairs
The
Connexion, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Coventry, CV8 3FL
Tel. - 01604
846 688
Mob. - 07966
527 177
10:30 -
15:00hrs
Admission
£3, seniors £2.50p, children £1, early bird (from 08:00hrs) £6
Free parking
Falkirk, Scotland - McLaren Models
Tel. - 01324
624 102
Haydock
Park - Barry Stockton Fairs
The
Exhibition Centre, Haydock Park Racecourse, WA12 0HQ
Worthing - SRP Toyfairs
Charmandean Centre, Forest Road, Worthing,
West sussex, BN14 9HS
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
York - J&J Webb - 'York
Racecourse'
The Knavesmire Stand, York Racecourse,
York, Yorkshire, YO23 1EX
Tel. - 01522 880 383
10:00 - 14:30hrs
Admission £2.50p, seniors £2, 1st child
£1.50p
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Auctions
Reminder - Today (and Tomorrow)
Friday 3rd / Saturday 4th April 2019
Chippenham - Wessex Auctions (days 2
and 3 of a three-day auction)
Wessex Auction Rooms, Westbrook Farm,
Draycot Cerne, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 5LH
Tel. - 01249 720 888
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Saturday 5th May 2019
Sheffield - Shefield Auction Gallery
Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield, S8 8UB
Tel. - 0114 281 6161
Viewing - Thursday 2nd 10:00 - 19:00, from
08:30 on sale day
14:00 - Finish
General toy and collectable sale
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Wednesday 8th-Thursday 9th May 2019
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis
Auctions (2-day sale)
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
01642 750 616
Specialist die-cast sale
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Other Events
Sunday 5th May 2019
Chertsey - Great Cockrow Railway -
Miniature/Garden Railway
The loco's start running for the summer
season this Sunday and mostly Sundays, so check the website before travelling!
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If you are
an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model,
collectable or popular-/youth-culture type sale/exhibition/event listed here - FOR FREE - or linked to; please eMail me -
maverickatlarge[at]hotmail[dot]com
- stating
the date/s of the event, address of event, contact details, opening/viewing
times, admission pricing and any other relevant facts/details or features -
parking, travel notes, disability access, availability of refreshments, event
subject matter &etc.
And please
mention any flyer-art or poster-/leaflet-scans but send by separate eMail, in
case they go to the 'junk' folder,
from where they can be recovered and marked safe, but only if I know they're
there!
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Links
What's New In Table-Top Games
Tugging the Heart Strings!
New Auctioneers
I Bet Someone Thinks They'Re The 'Five Best' Wrestling Toys!
Toy Soldiers Get Everywhere!
&
Battleguard Ready and New Hope Design News Piece
https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2019/04/toy-soldier-company-in-jackson-ships-history-around-the-world.html
Tabloid'y Piece on Values
Comics Spain
Clearing eMails and I came across these
from a few years ago;
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H is for....
....How Big is a Bearskin?
This big.
....How Small are Donald Trump's Itsy-Bitsy
Little Hands?
This small.
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Other News
Money Money Money!
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Disney
Corp Bob Iger has just seen his pay rise to £50m+ ($65.6m), for a year, that's
a million squid a week, give or take, £200,000 per day! I wonder what he spends
it on? How can anybody do 200,000-quid's worth of work in eight hours, there's
the end of the human race, right there; no sense of proportion!
Lego - Not!
Chinese police raided the Lepin factory and took possession of
620,000 fake Lego sets, which sell in
China for a 6th of the correctly branded originals, as most of the cost of
these things is the material, that suggests Lego
is at least five times more expensive than it needs to be, and Mega Blocks about three-times as
expensive as necessary. It also explains the growing success of the plethora of
lesser brands in poundshops, Wilko
and The Works!
Record Prices Realised at Vectis
Vectis are understandably chuffed with
their recent 'Star' Wars Items, and have issued the following press-release;
"Star Wars Prototype Resin Master
Tooling Aids – World Record prices!
On the 30th of April,
Vectis Auctions offered for sale three prototype resin master tooling aids,
something which had never before been offered for sale on the open market. The
figures are examples of the master sculpts used to create the well-known
vintage Star Wars 3 ¾” figures from The Return of the Jedi toy line, and have
been authenticated and encased by UK Graders Collectable Grading Company.
The Vendor visited the auction
room, and watched with anticipation as his lots began. First up was Lot 6429,
Ewok “Logray”, and with all three models estimated to achieve £6,000 - £12,000
it was uncertain how the bidding would go, after all, there were no pre-sales
to base the valuations on.
The anticipation soon escalated
as “Logray” sold to a telephone bidder in the USA for £12,000 (inclusive
of Buyers Premium). With the Emperors Royal Guard up next, and two telephone
bids, plus Internet and room bidders eager for the second lot, the bidding took
off, with a Vectis Internet Bidder winning the Lot for a phenomenal £28,800
inclusive.
However, in this case, it would
appear the best was saved for last, as Lot 6431, Bib Fortuna, a male Twi'lek
who lived on the desert planet Tatooine, again had a flurry of bids from across
the globe, with the hammer finally falling to an internet bidder for an
incredible £36,000 (including Buyers Premium).
The vendor was delighted with the
results of the auction and with these characters being relatively unknown to
non-Star Wars collectors, they beat all expectations, these vintage, one of a
kind lots have realised World Record prices.
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Toys in the Media
The modern tourist equivalent of Matchbox by the looks of it! Sainsbury's
Magazine.
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And Finally
Ooh! Are 'we' going to Alderney?
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Plastic
warrior
next weekenD
