More Disney Princesses, we've looked at
another set already and two of at least three Frozen sets, the beauty of this set being that they are
approximately 54mm, and apart from the costumed Snow White, all can pass for regency ladies.
Comparing the contents (usually incomplete
if found in charity shops) with the artwork above, there's a green
fish/frog/gecko thing missing, a grey blob (donkey?) and two girls, the one in
gold and one of the newer Disney Princesses with ethnicity (other than white)
in a green dress.
One can't complain at the missing items, as
these charity shop sets are usually 50 or 75p, if one does have a 12 count they
tend to be a quid though!
This was a 50p one! Incomplete, but only
missing the little cave boy, had I known they were cartoon caricatures; I
probably would have left it, but there you go - another piece of the puzzle.
This was the full whack! All £5.99p of it
from TKMaxx! I done did a video
di'unt I!
Watch, enjoy, hear my evil laugh at my secured plunder! Yeah . . .
I'm still learning the movie thing, each time I watch it I see another error,
or niggle I'd change, but this is the third edit (I think) and each one takes a
while to get right, and involves looking for folders that hide themselves in
the system!
I like the Killer Croc character as it's a straight-lift from Marvel's Hulk, but with knobs-on!
Here's
our Graham, chooks - with a quick reminder! They
are the smaller size at around 50mm (Batman), I don't know what Robin thinks
he's wearing, but it was Pride the other day, maybe he is trying
to tell us something we've already guessed!
Another day; another charity shop; another Phidal; another license! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with up to
six enemies (which is unusual for TMNT toy lines!), the trope with this set is
that the play-mat is also a board-game with simple mechanics. Other sets can be
puzzles, magnetic flats (fridge magnets!) or sucker-flats.
Note also, that it points to another source
of these sets (as yet unknown to me) selling at £4.71p (with VAT), that's more
than a quid less than TKMaxx and over half the price of WHSmiths, yet crooks on feebleBay are
selling them BIN for 12.99-a-set (plus post!) with no book! It's criminal, but
that's capitalism.
Given the locations of both me and the found object (Basingrad) it may be a Reading Warehouse (Tadley) thing, but it's been years since I was last there.
I can't work out if it's missing a green
tentacle-armed humanoid, a larger black, white and yellow monster or a small
turquoise rolling-die, but the eleven-count is wrong. A slightly older set
(dated 2014), it seems the figures with bases are newer, while the older sets
(I've found dates back as far as 2006/7 now, I think) tended to be baseless.
While I had them all out together (new
container, for a growing sample pile) I did a quick scaler or two,
although they are marked (by me) and measure up as 54mm, the princesses are a
tad smaller than the Lone Star sailor,
due in no small part to his chunky base and hat!
The thing with these Phidal's is; there's no rhyme or reason to size, I thought it might
be due to cost, but with one set having twelve 60 or 65mm figures and another
have 12 45mm figures (or their cartoon equivalent) it seems that the only
'rule' is that within sets figures should be in-scale, but even there; two DC sets, or two Marvel sets, two Frozen
sets, two Disney Princess sets can be
completely different scales from each other!
