Meanwhile having lost the Witch-hazel to
last summer's drought and the dry winter/spring, we've now lost the Bramley to
the soak, just keeled-over and snapped at the base, and it was well-over 100-years
old, the last tree from the orchard which was here before the railway came.
Climate change - as predicted - making itself felt everywhere now, and Brazil's
monkey-in-charge wants to log the last of the Amazon forests!
Toys are struggling to cheer, but see what
you can find this week . . .
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 22nd June 2019
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
Gloucester - Steven Clement Fairs
Churchdown Community Centre, Gloucester,
Gloucestershire, GL3 2JH
eMail: clementfairs@aol.com
01380 725 322
10:00 - 14:00hrs
eMail: clementfairs@aol.com
01380 725 322
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Refreshments available
Refreshments available
Maidstone - Maidstone
Vintage Toy Fair
Lockmedow
Market Hall & Leisure Complex, Barker Road (Hart Street entrance),
Maidstone, Kent, ME16 8LW
Internet
presence unknown
Tel. - 01622
298 159
Mob. - 01732
840 787
09:00 -
15:00hrs
Admission
£2.50p
Park &
ride, pay and display parking, refreshments
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Sunday 23rd June 2019
Bolton - Barry Potter / BP Fairs - 'Macron'
The Premier
Suite, Macron Stadium, Bolton, Lancashire, BL6 6SF
Web. - www.bpfairs.com
Tel. - 01604
846 688
Mob. - 07966
527 177
Hours
unknown (probably
10:30 - 15:00hrs)
Admission £4.00,
early-bird £8, (from 08:00hrs), seniors £3.50, children £1
Free parking
Worthing - SRP Toyfairs
Charmandean Centre, Forest Road, Worthing,
West Sussex, BN14 9HS
Web. - http://srptoyfairs1.co.uk/
eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
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Auctions
Saturday 22nd June 2019
Newark - Northgate Auctions
17 Northgate, Newark, Nottingham, NG24 1EX
Tel. - 01636 605 905
Fax. - 01636 612 607
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Wednesday 26th June 2019
Lot
4402 - Be your own Dalek, just remove your legs!
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel. - 01642 750 616
Starts 10:30am
Viewing 08:00-10:30hrs on the day of the
sale
TV & film related merchandise sale
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Thursday 27th June 2019
Lot
5613 - Roy Cross original artwork
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel. - 01642 750 616
Starts 10:00am
Viewing 08:00-10:00hrs on the day of the
sale
Military & civilian figures, equipment
& accessories sale
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Other Events
Saturday 22nd 2019
Web. - www.iwm.org.uk
Air and ground displays
Currently Cancelled - may be due to (now improving) weather, so worth keeping an eye on the website? If not; next show is Saturday/Sunday 13th-14th July 2019
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Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd 2019
Kenilworth - English Heritage -
Legendary Joust
Kenilworth Castle & Elizabethan
Gardens, Castle Green, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Web. 1 - www.english-heritage.org.uk (Home)
Web. 2 - www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/kenilworth-castle-legendary-joust-22-23-jun-2019/ (Venue)
10:00-17:00hrs
Medieval jousting
Medieval jousting
Weston-super-Mare - Various - Weston Air
Festival
Seafront / Open Air
Free
Red Arrows, Battle of Britain Memorial
Flight
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Sunday 23rd June 2019
London (Central) - Royal Academy - Big Architecture Family Day
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House,
Piccadilly, London
11:00-13:00hrs - Sky Creatures Drawing Workshop
14:00-16:00hrs - Lego Architecture Challenge
Admission Free
Three leading British architecture
practices will be competing to build with Lego
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Overseas Events
From Friday 21st June 2019 (today) - Saturday 27th July
Lisbon (Portugal) - Norman Cook - Underdogs Gallery 'Smile High Club'
Underdogs Gallery, Rua Fernando Palha, Armazém 56, 1950–132, Lisbon, Portugal
eMail - info@under-dogs.net
Tel. - +351 218 680 462
14:00-20:00hrs - Tuesdays-Saturdays
Tel. - +351 218 680 462
14:00-20:00hrs - Tuesdays-Saturdays
Exhibition curated by Fatboy Slim, yes - the Trance-Techno guru and ex-lucky-husband of Zoe
Ball (when she was still cute and grounded!) - showing both his 40-year-ammased collection and of other people's 'Smiley' memorabilia and artwork
pertaining to Harvey Ball's culturally-famous, instantly recognisable, yellow
peace symbol.
Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd June
2019
Parsippany, New Jersey (USA) - Veteri Productions - ToyconNJ
Parsippany P.A.L. Building, 33 Baldwin Rd.,
Parsippany, NJ 07054, New Jersey, USA
Web. - https://www.toyconnj.com/
10:00-17:00hrs, 16:00-finish on the 23rd,
'Early Bird' from 09:00hrs, games room stays open 'till 19:00hrs on the 22nd.
Admission; Saturday: $15.00, Sunday:
$15.00, Early Bird: $20.00 (each day), VIP weekend pass (unlimited access):
$25.00, cosplay'ers: $8.00 (each day), veterans: $8.00 (each day), under 10's
free.
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Missed
Last weekend there was a massive attempt to
re-set Waterloo in 25mm, nothing obvious in the press last week (printed or
on-line) so I didn't cover it, but after the event it was in all the papers,
BBC online and elsewhere; Ce la vie as the French say, and
they know what they're talking about - they all speak French!
Organised by the University of Glasgow, 20,306 painted figures were controlled by
teams of over 120 'players', the whole thing being in aid of Waterloo Uncovered, a charity for
ex-military personnel. The game was conducted on a 2,066sq.ft. map on four
tables with historians and archeologists on-hand, none of the reports state a
win for the Sardinian, so I guess the outcome was never in doubt?
BBC link courtesy of Paul Morehead at Plastic Warrior magazine
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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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News
Link
Fort Bragg 'drops' Charity Toy Drop [https://www.fayobserver.com/news/20190607/does-fort-braggs-annual-toy-drop-have-future]
- Five-thousand toys which won't go to needy kids and another mealy-mouthed
excuse from a 'spokesman' for more undoing of all the good things we used to
do, same month as the D-Day commemorations too; if there's one thing you can
count on from the 'moral Right' and conservative 'silent majority' it's that
they'll kick you when you're down! The 'U.S. Army
Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command' . . . they sound like
propagandist bean-counters don't they? Make America not
so great . . . ours is the more informal KAPE
- Keep the Army in the Public Eye; which - in my day - used to involve marching
through Bristol, getting paint thrown at you!
Hornby
The railway maker has announced that losses
have halved, which to city gamblers is good news, so shares are up on the news
that losses this year will only be £5.2m! Sales are also down from £35.7m to
£32.8m which is also good news apparently, as it's due to an end to
discounting! Call me a cynic - but capitalism's mad.
Smiggle
Who I discovered with those dinosaurs a
while back (checks - still in the queue!) have announced a slow-down in
'aggressive expansion' after opening 133 stores since 2014, the
Australian-based stationers will concentrate on market share and other such
boring, grown-up stuff in the near future!
Lego - Turkish Airlines
The national carrier has adopted the song
from the Lego movie 'Everyone's going to have a good time in the
air tonight' as part of their in-flight entertainment, I think (I'm not
sure) that it's been redone so the singer is now in TA's trolley-dolly attire?
Mattel
The toy maker and parent of Barbie has
rejected a hostile merger-bid from MGA Entertainment, the background and
details of which are such tediously boring accountancy-speak and legalese;
we'll leave it there!
Charity Shops
My find of the Dinky's the other week is apparently part of something called the
'Marie Kondo effect', she seems to have a televisual programme somewhere among
the 400-odd channels available to some of you, concerning de-cluttering, which
has led to much donating to charity; I'm all for it, you take your treasures to
charity - they're in the way aren't they - and I'll pop-down and pick 'em up!
Which brings us to . . .
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H is for How They Come In
A handful of - mostly TV/movie related -
stuff this week, along with a vintage Waddington's
board game and an evilBay lot (the lot I thought I'd missed two weeks ago!),
which will both get their own posts in the fullness of time. The green Michelin man/Hulk'y key-ring is a second
(recently found) and along with the three 'phone-string' superheroes (and the
pterodactyl) is/are probably Kinder.
There's a Phidal Thor, two more McDonald's
Smurfs (I picked-up three a while ago) and a Schleich PVC one. No idea on the unmarked leaf-head while the two
small superheroes are probably capsule toys too - LPFToys?. The large 'Torch' is a duplicate from the bigger Zuru capsule toys we looked at a year or
so ago. Finally, the Splinter (is he Splinter?) in a Lego-likey/Megabloks
style is also Kinder I think?
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Toys in the Media
Fridge magnet numbers being used to
illustrate an advertisement for some financial 'thing'!
Two cake-decoration brides are employed to
accompany a piece on the first lesbian marriage as part of the hype surrounding
the build-up to the recent BBC (?) Gentleman
Jack, it'll annoy small-c conservatives, but anything which annoys them is
OK in my book!
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