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I’m a 60-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 Warlord Games. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

T is for Toy Fair 2020 Reports - Hornby - Other Makers Products

Hornby (as Hornby Hobbies or Hornby Group) is now one of the big six players in the global toy business (Hasbro, Mattel, Lego, Tomy-Takara, Games Workshop), and as such it probably wasn't a surprise to find 'rival' products on their stand, obviously as distributors, also ensuring they get a percentage of the hobby market their own products don't cover!

Band of Brothers; Black Powder; Black Seas; Bolt Action; Doctor Who; Esci; Exterminate!; Games System; Gaming System; Hornby Group; Hornby Railways; Humbrol Paints; Italeri; Judge Dredd; Master & Comander; Mega-City One; Osprey Games; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Starter Set; Voyage of the Damned; War Games; War Gaming; Wargames; Wargaming; Warlord Games; Waterloo;
Warlord, Bolt Action, Osprey Publishing and Esci-Italeri all here, as thick as thieves, in the worlds of both licensing, and proprietary or sealed-system war-games and rule-sets. It wasn't clear if the diorama was connected to some of the displayed products or just for display interest?

Band of Brothers; Black Powder; Black Seas; Bolt Action; Doctor Who; Esci; Exterminate!; Games System; Gaming System; Hornby Group; Hornby Railways; Humbrol Paints; Italeri; Judge Dredd; Master & Comander; Mega-City One; Osprey Games; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Starter Set; Voyage of the Damned; War Games; War Gaming; Wargames; Wargaming; Warlord Games; Waterloo;
They are also handling Dr. Who, Master & Commander, Blood Red Skies and Judge Dredd stuff, now I clearly didn't spot the Judge Dredd 'thing' as I didn't photograph it properly/separately and don't know what it is, if it's a game with figures . . . .wantone!