News, Views Etc . . . Saturday 27th April - Friday 3rd May 2019

No blurb today, no pack drill . . .

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Toy Fairs

Reminder - Today - Friday 26th April 2019

Alfreton - Toy and Train Fairs (Malcolm Townsend) - Evening Fair

The Leisure Centre, Church Street, Alfreton, DE55 7BD

Web. - www.tttf.co.uk

Mob. - 07951 072 790

19:00 - 21:00hrs

Admission charge unknown

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Saturday 27th April 2019

Beconsfield - Toy & Train Fairs (Peter Levinson)

Beconsfield School, Wattleton Road, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1SJ

Internet presence unknown

Tel. - 01282 051 518 (Peter or Diane)

10:30 - 14:30hrs

Admission charge unknown

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Sunday 28th April 2019

Ashington - David Parsons - Toy & Train Collectors Fair

Ashington Community Centre, Foster Lane, Ashington, West Sussex, RH20 3PG

eMail - modelcarmart@gmail.com

Tel. - 01424 846 676 (Pete)

Mob. - 07742 609 865 (David)

10:00 - 14:00hrs

 Adults £1.50, concessions £1

Carmarthen - Chris Dyer Fairs

Carmathen Leisure Centre, Llansteffan Road, Johntown, Carmarthen, Wales, SA31 3NQ

Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk

Tel. - 01643 702 757

Mob. - 07966 694 579

10:30 - 15:00hrs

Admission £2

Chester-le-Street - Jim Corr Fairs

Lord Lawson Academy, Birtly Lane, Birtly, DH3 2LF

eMail - jim_corr73@hotmail.co.uk

Mob. - 07504 035 955

10:00 - 15:00hrs

Admission £3, children/senior citizens £2, 'Early Bird' £5

Colchester - SRP Toy Fairs

Langham Community Centre, School Road, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5PA

Web. - http://srptoyfairs1.co.uk/

eMail - srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk

Mob. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)

10:00 - 14:00hrs

Admission unknown

Exeter - Bulldog Fairs - 'Westpoint'

Westpoint Arena, Clyst St. Mary, Exeter, EX5 1DJ

Web. - www.bulldogfairs.com

eMail - bulldogfairs@aol.com

Tel. - 01373 452 857

Mob. - 07917 125 641

10:30 - 14:30hrs

Admission £4, each under-16 free with adult, 'Early Bird' £10 from 08:30hrs

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Tuesday 30th April 2019

Garstang - Janet Pearson - Garstang Evening Fair

Kirkland & Catterall Memorial Hall, PR3 0HR

Web-presence unknown

01282 439 009

18:00 - Finnish

Admission fee unknown

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Auctions

Monday 29th April 2019

Lewis - Wallis and Wallis

West Street Galleries, Lewis, Sussex, BN7 2NJ

Web. - wallisandwallis.co.uk

eMail - toys@wallisandwallis.co.uk

Tel. - 01273 480 208

Fax. - 01273 476 562

Antique Playthings & Toy Soldier Sale

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Tuesday 30th April 2019

The following Star Wars Prototype Resin Master Tooling Aids will be offered for sale as part of the Vectis TV and Film related auction on 30 April, 2019.

• Logray
• Emperors Royal Guard
• Bib Fortuna

https://www.vectis.co.uk/star-wars-prototype-resin-master-tooling-aids-30th-april-tv-and-film-related-sale

Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions

Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 9JZ

Web. - www.vectis.co.uk

eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk

01642 750 616

Star Wars and Other TV and Movie Memorabilia sale

"The TV & Film related sale to be held on the 30th of April starts at the earlier time of 10am to ensure there is enough time to complete over 700 lots.

The sale features predominantly Star Wars lots, including carded, loose and boxed figures - including Graded figures; accessories, playsets, posters, jigsaws and comics. Lots include a large selection of Tri-logo carded figures, Ewoks and Droid series', Black Series, vintage Micro Collection and a fantastic collection of prototype resin master tooling aids.

Other items in the sale include Action Man and Tommy Gun, Dr Who, Masters of the Universe, Games Workshop, Electronic games and Lego.

There is also a fantastic collection of framed autographs from artists such as Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Elvis, The Jam, Madonna, Christopher Lee, Monty Python and James Bond related, in The North West Autographed Memorabilia Collection."

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Other Events

Saturday 27th-Sunday 28th April 2019

York - Discover Vintage Ltd. - Festival of Vintage (FOV)

York Racecourse, Racecourse Road, Knavesmire Road, York, Yorkshire, YO23 1EX

Web. - www.festivalofvintage.co.uk

Cars, dancing, music, stalls and style from the 1930's to the 1960's

Saturday 27th April 2019

Basingstoke - British car Auctions - BCA Thornycroft Day

Brookvale Village Hall, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 7RP

eMail - thornycroft@brookvale.org.uk

Tel. (1) - 01256 324 313

Tel. (2) - 01256 352 852

12:00 - 16:00hrs

Fundraiser and vintage transport

Model railways, kid's stuff, refreshments (a 'Mighty Antar' or two?)

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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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H is for How They Come In

Funny little bunch this week, I'm guessing rocket is Carlton, possibly a 'companion' with a larger action-figure? A Character Options sailor, an unknown cartoony F1 driver, another 'unknown' (blind bag?), called 'Maniac' and a Giochi Preziosi 'Gormiti' to add to their tub! I also picked up another board game today (Thurs.), but given other things it can wait.

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Skeletal Chinasaurs

These have been building-up in the WTF zone, a couple from Charity Shop lots, the rest from Jim and/or Chris and/or Peter Evans (thanks' chaps). Really only useful if 1) you collect unrealistic dinosaur skeletons (guilty as charged M'lud!), or 2) need a natural history museum ruin in your diorama (you never know - spares box!), or 3) are building a killer skeleton/undead army (oh yes!) . . . so actually, pretty useful really!

Three glow in the dark, two weathered wash and probably four sources? We may have seen one here in a Poundland purchase about nine-years ago?

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News Bites

Legoland - That new Lego amusement-park ride announced (here) a couple of weeks ago failed on its opening day and had to be closed 'due to technical issues'!

Brwreakshit - Which; the UK consumer affairs organisation warned that dangerous toys 'could flood into the UK' after Brexit, one hopes that it's over emphasising the risk, but it was one of the risks mooted three-years ago, the announcement was part of a urging of the Government to keep open the European 'safety gate'.

Murder - speaking of Brwreakshit and the steady rise in violent and hate crime over the last three years - Danny Bostock (33) has been jailed for life, after killing a fellow coin-collector for a Peter Rabbit 50p. Having stabbed the owner - Gordon McGhee -14 times he tried to destroy the crime scene with a gas explosion, risking the lives of neighbours; he won't be from the 'hard left' Mr. O'Connell?

Tom Karen - Czechoslovakian-born designer of the Raleigh 'Chopper' and Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder as head of the Ogle design studio, recently collected an OBE and said he was saddened by the modern toy industry.

Nintendo - Have announced two new gaming consoles - that'll mean more toys! The new models are budget and enhanced versions of their existing Switch console.

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Spare a thought for an old soldier (Military Cross, bar and cluster - not many of them around), he's currently fighting his last battle and it doesn't seem to be going terribly well, but knowing him as I do, I suspect it might all be part of his cunning plan to cheat The Ferryman out of a fare; it won't work, of course, but it's a good last wheeze and won't cost him an extra minute in either realm...

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N is for Nobody, Not None, Not a Single Soul Escapes the Man with the Scythe

Family crisis etc . . . won't be Blogging for a while etc . . . try to do dates, truncated, Thurs./Fri. &etc . . . It''s crap, but it's life and it comes to all of us.

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There is a Vectis Train Sale tomorrow;

"The Model Train sale to be held on the 26th of April starts with a good selection of OO Gauge British Outline, plus HO USA & Continental Outline, and N Gauge locomotives and rolling stock. Further items include Triang Railways and Triang Minic Motorway and vehicles, Wrenn Railways and Bing Table Top electric and clockwork locomotives, coaches and rolling stock; plus, Hornby, modern and further O Gauge. There is a large collection of large-scale models including Gauge 1 & Larger, plus Part 2 of The North Wales Collection - including further Large scale locomotives, coaches and rolling stock, track and buildings; and a Single Owner G Gauge Collection of LGB G Gauge catalogue reference and Garden Railway Specialists items. The sale concludes with an American Outline S Gauge model, Books, Magazines & Catalogues, Meccano & Other Constructional Toys and our usual good selection of General Trains."

F is for Fishel's Fetching Fuchsia Firefighters!

Another quickie! I am hoping to get hold of some Internet time on Monday (today as you read), so will try to produce something more substantial for later on, but for now this box-ticking exercise presented itself during the ongoing sorting process.

Marked, they were kicking around about 12/15 years ago and could be seen as the more commercial wave of the newer-styled, civil, die-cast vehicle accessories, all in a similar vein, although the hats are poorly sculpted and the over-all impression is of the Royal Household's Beefeaters on a picnic!

Ooaawahh! I must change the Firemen tag to fire-fighters before someone says something!

WTF is for Whacky Thingy Found

It's currently last Tuesday (as I write), and I'm looking for easy posts to shove up on Bank Holiday Monday, as I've a load of bits to publish for the weekend and no internet on Friday, which means the show dates have to be done tomorrow for Thursday and it's all got a bit bleah! Found this though!

Courtesy of Peter Evans's last-but-one parcel and just a bit of fun to move us away from Easter, it's a stretchy alien, but using a concertinaed-cable action, rather than very elastic silicon or PVC! It's a jewelled-eyes key-ring, branded (probably phantom-) to Gismos, that's it really . . . Cheers Peter!

I is for 'In the Nick of Time'!

Spotted this online, on Monday (15th April), and only arriving an hour ago, I've quickly had it out, photographed it, duplicated 20-odd images for a .gif (hopefully loaded below!) and am now firing off a hurried blurb, before slotting it in somewhere, I think there's only two posts today (Thurs.) so it may be here new, or it may be added to Sunday or Monday?!!!

As it arrived; it's tied to several brands one way or another, but more important, it credits an artist/designer, so he should get a name-check first; Jason Pang. It appears to have been designed for Fred (Forward Fred/Fred and Friends/Genuine Fred) 'a division' of Lifetime Brands' (who are also the European distributer as Kitchencraft), sub-branded to Hoobbe and manufactured in China . . . by 'DGN' (if you believe Erwin!) and I got it from Herts of Stur!

Out of the box . . . is that a Gallil or G3 assault rifle, seems to be a bit of both?

The marking in full is exactly the same as the previous ones we looked at 23-0917-DGN [CH], which, as per last time is read backwards; it's actually China, Design No. 23-0917, there is no maker called DGN!

If it's worked there's a [rather wobbly] .gif here of a fat-knacker getting some exercise! I should have used a tripod, but is was all a bit rushed!

The egg is a papier-mâché addition to those we've looked at in the past at this time of year! Happy Easter all!

L is for Lone Wabbit and Egg: Bunny Cart at the River Styx!

What? You can't have Easter without an Easter bunny . . .err . . . actually you can, and in ten years here at Small Scale World; we have . . . several times! While the Germans run with a hare. They're going extinct you know; hares and rabbits, terribly sad, but some idiot left some pink monkeys in charge of the planet!

Anyway, that's the first paragraph provided with text . . .

. . . I shot this on Adrien Little's stand at the Plastic Warrior show a year ago (not long now), and have been catching sight of it in Picasa, regularly, ever since, it's a bit of fun but I'll be glad to get it on the dongle now!

Speaking of the dongles - after the Peter Pan Playthings dancer the other day - this is another of the PPP's in the archive, the other obvious one being Pritchard Patent Products, but I have a feeling there's a forth; just one of those little quirks!

The box-art doesn't lie . . . much, there's no sitting 'number two'! It's figural, it's seasonal and it has a bit of age. It would have been filled with smaller eggs, which were sometimes that cheap, gritty, chocolate 'flavor' sugar-candy, but if you were lucky, they were proper chocolate eggs in two halves, held together by the foil, with - if you were really, really lucky - hazelnut-ganache soft centres.

Poplar Plastic Products - Bunny Cart.

Happy Egg'tastic Easter loyal readers!

O is for Ovoid, Ovid 'Old Friends'!

Having posted the small-scale ones several times and seen them also posted elsewhere on the Internet (or in my eMail's inbox) as 'unknown' before remembering they were Tombola, only for Paul Morehead to then remind me that they had been large-scale and branded to Party Pig in Plastic Warrior magazine's issue 82, they've only gawn and turned up again in't they! And they're in Easter eggs - double-bloody-bargain and the yolks on us!

As found on the Internet (left hand shot), there are two outlets on eBay.com that I know of, but there are other sources out there. I had to get a set straight away and what came is the bag on the right, 12 eggs with three each of four designs of egg-wrap, and two colours of polyethylene egg.

The bag has a header card that I think we've seen before (possibly from Brian Berke, but I can't remember if it was as a shelfie or donation) and which is trying to be the current card from  . . . err . . . Amscan - I think (Another Brian B contribution). On posting - Yes; the football erasers (among others).

As we shall see in October, rack toys with these cards can be sourced in the UK with an over-printed branding to Fun Express, here it's a sticker for the Oriental Trading Co. of Omaha, Nebraska (whispers . . . they share their postal code with Fun Express!). There's also a possibility of a Chahai being the actual manufacturer?

Ten poses have gone missing (all nine 'Blues' or 'Imperial Pilots' and the 'Greys' or 'Vaders' standing firing chap), but you get eight different figures and four [different] duplicates so it looks deliberate, and the missing poses don't feature in any of the publicity shots I found, so that seems to be it? I would further venture that from set to set the four duplicates will differ by thirds - thus a fourth tool-shot is split between three 'sets'?

The decoration is nothing to write home (or a blog article) about, but they will be a post-PVC substitute and should take PVA paints with no ill effects, although give them a good wash first, they are quite 'shiny' and that may be a leaching or a mould-release agent.

The guy pointing with his sidearm (bottom right) needs a bit of a hot-water treatment to straighten his weapon, and a few could use a flattening of the base with the same trick - I run near-boiled water over them then slide them across a cold, stone/marble cutting-board.

Sadly - even in the larger scale; their wellington-boots and gauntlets leave them looking as if their next task is masturbating a prize-bull into a jam-jar! Still they have face-mask/respirators so they've got nothing to complain about on the 'protective gear in the workplace' front.

With its usual brilliance for surrealism; Hong Kong/China use completely different figures on one of the shrink-wrapped egg-bands, being those hoary old favourites - a mix of three Matchbox US Infantry and two of the original 1990's Jaru 'fritz helmet' GI's, all five rendered in outline!

Happy Space-War'tastic Easter loyal readers!

E is for Egg Soldiers But Not Toast!

Or at least they are in a folder marked Egg Soldiers and have been edited as the above title for some time san's blurb, but, now I've looked them up, the blurb is here to say they aren't eggs, they're 'Rabbids', geddit? Like rabbits but . . . well, you know all these 'Art Figures; and 'Designer Toys' it all seems to be about death, un-death, disease and/or nihilism!

Anywhoos - These are they! They do look like eggs, and there is an obvious egg-soldiers joke in there for anyone to spot (which is why the title stands), but sadly out of all the Raving Rabbids issued (and they are legion) these happen to be the only two who's ears are hidden by headdress! But Rabbids they are.

A Rabbid Guardsman and a Rabbid Cossack from UBI Art, part of the whole Ubisoft empire, I'm not sure if they are straight-to-store 'art toys' or some sort of game-related characters, my bad, but I don't game and I don't follow designer figures and  . . . I don't care!

God knows what they cost new, but like the Un-Disney-Dunny-Bunny-Bare-Bear-Tiger thing a few Christmases ago, these were among others in a charity-shop pound-bag, and were going to post on Easter Sunday, but have been moved now I know they're not egg-soldiers; bloody imposters!