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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.

Monday, March 21, 2022

R is for Russian Russians from Russia.

I don't know if I have any Russian readers left, nor do I know how many Russian readers I had before Putin locked them out, but against the possibility that some are using VPN's to get a fix of their Western filth (toy soldier and model figure 'filth'!!), or that Blogger has escaped the more Draconian lock-bots currently blocking the parent Google, this is for you, if your President's allowed you to be here.

Most of these pictures were taken by Alex / Oleks known to some of you for his toy soldier site, he's in or around Kyiv, which your army is bombing back to the stone-age, (along with Serhiy of ElastoWit toy soldiers) and sends me what he can when he has a moment.

Luckily, the Russian Army is so fucking useless, they've left the mobile communications network up, so they could use it (which seems to have resulted in five of your Generals' being zeroed and dispatched to meet their maker), and by the time they might have been minded to shut it down, Ukrainian forces had knocked-out or captured most of your Electronic Warfare vehicles.

Understand this is NOT a "Special Military Operation", it is a murderous aggressive war of INVASION against an innocent country which did nothing to harm you, and it is a WAR you are losing. 

Я не знаю, остались ли у меня русские читатели, и не знаю, сколько русских читателей у меня было до того, как Путин заблокировал их, но против возможности того, что некоторые используют VPN, чтобы исправить свою западную грязь (игрушечный солдатик и примерная фигура «грязь»!!), или что Blogger избежал более драконовских блокирующих ботов, которые в настоящее время блокируют родительский Google, это для вас, если вы, президент, позволили вам быть здесь.

Большинство этих фотографий были сделаны Алексом / Олексом, известным некоторым из вас своим сайтом о солдатиках, он находится в Киеве или его окрестностях, который ваша армия бомбит обратно в каменный век (вместе с Сергеем из оловянных солдатиков ElastoWit) и отправляет мне то, что он может, когда у него есть момент.

К счастью, русская армия настолько чертовски бесполезна, что они оставили сеть мобильной связи включенной, чтобы иметь возможность ее использовать (что, похоже, привело к тому, что пятеро ваших генералов были обнулены и отправлены на встречу с их создателем), и, судя по всему, когда они, возможно, собирались отключить его, украинские силы подбили или захватили большую часть ваших средств радиоэлектронной борьбы.

Поймите, это НЕ «Специальная военная операция», это кровопролитная агрессивная ВТОРЖЕНИЕ против невинной страны, которая не причинила вам никакого вреда, и это ВОЙНА, которую вы проигрываете.

Putin lied to you, and he's still lying to you. You have lost thousands of vehicles, tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of tanks and more than 70 aircraft, including three of your new 'indestructible' Kamov Ka-52 gunships.

Путин лгал вам, и он продолжает вам лгать. Вы потеряли тысячи единиц техники, десятки тысяч солдат, сотни танков и более 70 самолетов, в том числе три новых «неубиваемых» боевых корабля Камов Ка-52.

This is what is waiting for you in Kyiv and Kharkiv,
everyone who can is working to make your soldiers die.

Это то, что ждет вас в Киеве и Харькове,
каждый, кто может, работает над тем, чтобы ваши солдаты погибли.

This is what you are doing to dozens of cities in Ukraine, carpet bombing and unregulated shelling, you are making 44-million enemies, in Kharkiv the Russian-speakers stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Ukrainian speakers, ready to kill your invaders.

Это то, что вы делаете с десятками городов Украины, ковровые бомбардировки и нерегулируемые обстрелы, вы наживаете 44 миллиона врагов, в Харькове русскоязычные стоят плечом к плечу с украиноязычными, готовые убить ваших оккупантов.

You have wiped whole villages off the map, for no strategic or tactical reason, the hate generated will last for at least three generations.

Вы стерли с лица земли целые деревни без какой-либо стратегической или тактической причины, вызванной ненавистью хватит как минимум на три поколения.

This is what you mean by not targeting civilians, in Mariupol you have destroyed 90% of the housing and targeted two community shelters (in the Theater and a junior school) because they were built in the Soviet era and you know where they are, they are two war-crimes to add to all the others.

Вот что вы имеете в виду под нецелью мирных жителей, в Мариуполе вы уничтожили 90% жилья и нанесли удар по двум общественным приютам (в Театре и младшей школе), потому что они были построены в советское время, и вы знаете, где они находятся, они два военных преступления вдобавок ко всем остальным.

Your vehicles are not only being destroyed in large numbers, they are also being captured and used against your useless army.

Ваши машины не только массово уничтожаются, но и захватываются и используются против вашей бесполезной армии.

Still burning! Because your officers took all the paperwork, mobile 'phones and watches from the conscripts in the initial wave, they are being buried in mass graves with no hope of identifying half of them. It will take international forensic teams (of the sort still working in the former Yugoslavia) years of peace to sort your mess out.

Еще горит! Поскольку ваши офицеры забрали все документы, мобильные телефоны и часы у призывников в первой волне, их хоронят в братских могилах без надежды опознать половину из них. Международным группам судебно-медицинских экспертов (такие, которые до сих пор работают в бывшей Югославии) потребуются годы мира, чтобы разобраться в вашей неразберихе.

One of yours, the initial phase of the Northern Army Group (Group Z) was so appallingly badly handled, a lot of your dead were found days later frozen to the snow or mud, and the Ukrainians call them 'dog-food', because all the abandoned dogs in the villages you raised to the ground for no reason, have been eating them.

Один из ваших, начальный этап Северной группы армий (группа Z) был так ужасающе плохо организован, многие ваши мертвые были найдены через несколько дней замороженными до снега или грязи, и украинцы называют их «кормом для собак», потому что все брошенные собаки в деревнях, которых вы без причины свели на землю, съели их.

Abandoned, it is reported that retreating troops from that initial debacle were summarily executed by FSB firing squads, I don't know the truth of that, but as you are fighting in a medieval fashion, it's almost certainly true and with mobile crematoria in your rear echelons, you'll never know, as the evidence has already been burned, taking your casualty figures over 15 or 20,000 dead, god only knows how many injured? But we only care about the Ukrainians who didn't want this on their soil, they aren't bombing your cities, your towns - but they have every right to.

Сообщается, что отступающие войска после того первоначального разгрома были без промедления расстреляны ФСБ, я не знаю, правда ли это, но поскольку вы воюете в средневековой манере, это почти наверняка правда, и с мобильными крематориями в ваших руках. тыловые эшелоны, никогда не узнаешь, так как улики уже сожжены, принимая твои цифры потерь более 15 или 20000 убитых, бог знает сколько может раненых? А нас волнуют только украинцы, которые не хотели этого на своей земле, они не бомбят ваши города, ваши поселки - но имеют на это полное право.

One of yours.
 
You have lost so many troops now, the Duma has passed a law allowing you to recruit thousands of mercenaries, but how are you going to pay them, your economy is on the floor and crawling out of the door? And who will those mercenaries be? Fascist lunatics and ego-tripping body-builders from the beer cellars of St. Petersburg, Islamist extremists from Syria and Tunisia? Chechen animals? You're going to love billeting them when the war is over.

Один из ваших.

Вы потеряли сейчас столько войск, Дума приняла закон, разрешающий вам вербовать тысячи наемников, но как вы собираетесь им платить, ваше хозяйство стоит на полу и выползает из дверей? И кто будут эти наемники? Фашистские сумасшедшие и тщеславные бодибилдеры из пивных подвалов Санкт-Петербурга, исламистские экстремисты из Сирии и Туниса? Чеченские животные? Вам понравится расквартировывать их, когда война закончится.

One of theirs - I have no words.

Один из них - у меня нет слов.

What you are doing to Ukraine.

Что вы делаете с Украиной.

Why you've lost so many aircraft!

Почему вы потеряли так много самолетов!

Does this look like a 'limited military operation' to you? Do you seriously think the Ukrainians would do this to themselves while you stand around doing nothing? Stop believing the Soviet-era style propaganda, and start to understand it will take you decades to pay for this.
 
Which you will have to before all sanctions are lifted - you have done trillions of dollars worth of damage and are continuing to do so as I write, despite the fact that in the North your armies have all but stopped and in the South-East Army Group V and the Donbas fascists are struggling.

По-вашему, это "ограниченная военная операция"? Вы серьезно думаете, что украинцы будут делать это с собой, пока вы стоите без дела? Перестаньте верить советской пропаганде и начните понимать, что расплачиваться за это вам потребуются десятилетия.

Что вам придется сделать до того, как все санкции будут сняты - вы нанесли ущерб на триллионы долларов и продолжаете наносить, пока я пишу, несмотря на то, что на Севере ваши армии почти остановились, а в Юго-Восточной армии Группа V и фашисты Донбасса борются.

This is what you're doing.
Это то, что вы делаете.
Blindly bombing residential suburbs.
Вслепую бомбят жилые пригороды.
This is not 'limited', this is total war, with war-crimes.
 
Это не «ограничено»,
это тотальная война с военными преступлениями.

No military targets here, no limited "Nazi" elements,
just housing and shops.
 
Здесь нет военных целей,
нет ограниченных «фашистских» элементов, только жилье и магазины.
 
Your army has thrown so much at the two northern cities, they are reported to be running out of ammunition, then what? Putin wants a deal, but the cards are falling from his hands, and you will have to pick up the pieces.

Ваша армия так много бросила на два северных города, что, говорят, у них закончились боеприпасы, и что дальше? Путин хочет сделки, но карты падают у него из рук, и вам придется собирать осколки.

150+ civilians homeless - if they escaped the bombardment?
 
150+ мирных жителей без крова - если они избежали обстрела?
 
More housing, more shops.
 
Больше жилья, больше магазинов.

Is this one of yours, or one of theirs? Maybe one of yours which became one of theirs for a few days? It doesn't matter, it's what it shows, total war against an innocent neighbor in the 21st century. You can't win, because we don't want this as the 'new normal'. The sanctions against Russia are the most punitive ever, you are now more isolated that Iran or North Korea. the whole world (except China - and they are staying on the fence) are against this WAR.

Это один из ваших или один из их? может быть, один из ваших, который стал одним из них на несколько дней? Неважно, что он показывает, тотальная война против невинного соседа в 21 веке. Вы не можете победить, потому что мы не хотим, чтобы это было «новой нормой». Санкции против России являются самыми карательными за всю историю, вы сейчас более изолированы, чем Иран или Северная Корея. весь мир (кроме Китая - а они стоят на заборе) против этой ВОЙНЫ.

Army Group Z, as they are seen all over the Internet,
an Internet you're not allowed to look at.
 
Группа армий Z, как они видны по всему Интернету, 
Интернет, на который вам не разрешено смотреть.
 
The whole world except Russians and Belorussians are seeing these every day.
Army Group O? Resupply, second wave? Dead.

Весь мир, кроме россиян и белорусов, наблюдает это каждый день.
Группа армий О? Пополнение запасов, вторая волна? Мертв.

Putin calls the Ukrainians Nazi's,
but the only Nazi's in the room are your military.

Путин называет украинцев нацистами,
но единственные нацисты в комнате - твои военные. 

Direct hit on a residential block which has already been shot-up?
Not even war, just war-crimes.
 
Прямое попадание в уже расстрелянный жилой дом?
Даже не война, а военные преступления.

You have forcibly removed between 5 and 8,000 civilians to Russia when they were supposed to be using a humanitarian corridor to escape the bloodshed west, that is a war crime. You are refusing to allow humanitarian convoys into besieged cities, that is a war crime, you are threatening the entire population of Mariupol with military tribunals (when you have no jurisdiction in another country), you have shot on an old people's home killing +/-50 civilians, that is a war crime.

Вы насильно вывезли в Россию от 5 до 8 тысяч мирных жителей, когда они должны были использовать гуманитарный коридор, спасаясь от кровопролития на западе, что является военным преступлением. Вы отказываетесь пускать гуманитарные конвои в блокадные города, это военное преступление, вы угрожаете всему населению Мариуполя военными трибуналами (когда у вас нет юрисдикции в другой стране), вы стреляли по дому престарелых убивая +/ -50 мирных жителей, это военное преступление.

A school. March 1st. It's worse now.

Школа. 1 марта. Сейчас хуже.

A block of Flats.
 
Многоквартирный дом.

But across Ukraine they are ready for you, they are preparing to kill your soldiers as they have been killing them for three and a half weeks.

We are told the people of Russia aren't to blame, yet we are also told Mr Putin's ratings have gone up, we are told the Russians don't know what is going on, well this is going on; your army is destroying a happy, developing democracy for no reason, while the Ukrainians destroy your army.

I realise this is a drop in the ocean of stuff generated by this illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, but if I reach one Russian, and change their mind, it will have been worth it. My impotence in these matters is matched only by my anger.
 
If you are Russian and you don't agree with what's happening, and you can see this, share this.

Но по всей Украине к вам готовы, готовятся убивать ваших солдат, как убивают уже три с половиной недели.

Нам говорят, что народ России не виноват, но нам также говорят, что рейтинг Путина вырос, нам говорят, что русские не знают, что происходит, что ж, это происходит; ваша армия без причины уничтожает счастливую, развивающуюся демократию, а украинцы уничтожают вашу армию.

Я понимаю, что это капля в море вещей, порожденных этим незаконным вторжением в суверенную нацию, но если я доберусь до одного русского и передумаю, это того стоило. Мое бессилие в этих вопросах может сравниться только с моим гневом.

Если вы русский и не согласны с тем, что происходит, и вы это видите, поделитесь этим.

They are killing you at a rate of approximately 1000 personnel every two days, and you can include 5 generals and 1 Admiral in that total. The graph can't be fully trusted as it's come from Ukraine, during a war of attacking aggression and illegal invasion, but it's ten-time more accurate than anything coming out of the Kremlin or your puppet broadcasters.

Они убивают вас со скоростью примерно 1000 человек каждые два дня, и вы можете включить в это количество 5 генералов и 1 адмирала. Графику нельзя полностью доверять, так как он исходит из Украины, во время войны атакующей агрессии и незаконного вторжения, но он в десять раз более точен, чем все, что выходит из Кремля или ваших марионеточных вещателей.

Use Lantern to protest, learn and share

Используйте Lantern, чтобы протестовать, учиться и делиться

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n5e9/russian-internet-lantern

Sunday, February 27, 2022

F is for Faceplant

Very hard for a thoughtful person to post frivolity while a war is going on where he has friends.

Although it's starting to look as if Putin has - like all dictators in the end - miscalculated badly, and on many levels, but if the Russian people don't get rid of him in the next 48/72 (?) hours, we may all be in a nuclear-war, as he's not pissing-about, he's losing his temper and his rationality with it.

On the plus side, it looks like the Ukrainians have blunted his invasion and smashed the forward elements of his army, some military annalists are saying up to a quarter of the force he assembled has been neutralised, and while he's only committed a third - and those awful fascists from Chechnya are on the way - of the force available, the units behind are having to advance through the falling-back mauled elements, so there's now a level of chaos in the advance.

Here's a sobering thought which the media seem to have missed picking-up on: Putin's forces have mobile crematoria in their rear-echelons, he [Putin] never had any intention of returning body-bags to mothers, he's burning his dead in the field - I don't know what that does to moral, but I guess it's not good; I don't think any army ever went to war with body-ovens before.

So, in a sombre mood, I though a few images from Faceplant I've re-posted in the last few days were in order;

The Ukrainians are calling him Vladimir Vladimirovic Putler!

Don't forget the pets!

On the left, born with a Nazi-sympathiser's silver spoon up his arse, 
on the right, actor and comedian, 
elected against the propaganda, not with it.

Against the myth of Putin's that Ukraine is 'Only' Mother Russia,
it's probably regretting helping give birth to the Bear?

On the subject of Mother Russia . . . remember Putin's ex-wife
 is in internal exile in the 'Turd' (Kaliningrad).

From the New Elephant, original caption reads "Dumbest man in universe hails another man as a 'genius' and also praises doorjambs and those little plastic tables you get with takeaway Pizzas"
 
And on the subject of the Republicans, those who are supporting Putin disgust me, I don't know where this is (somewhere in or near Florida!), but I believe it's genuine?
 

More conservatives with all that lovely lucre from Putin's cronies! This was on the NHS Newsday wesite and is from the Independent's website, you can donate to medical charities here, and the money is transfered straight to Ukraine (this is a 21st Century war being fought in a developed democracy), so thay can literally pay for stuff over the counter while supplies can still reach them from the West.

Donate.

[A wounded woman is seen after an airstrike damaged an apartment complex in city of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv. Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images]

Friday, February 25, 2022

News, Views Etc . . . Hot off the Wibby Wobbly Way!

The team at PW have firmed-up the date for the London Plastic Toy Soldier Show at The Harlequin Suite, for Saturday the 14th May, in a confirmatory post on the Friends of Plastic Warrior Facebook page;

Plastic Warrior show dates 26th Plastic Toy Soldier Show Whitton London 14th May Saturday 2022
"Left a Bit, three rounds for effect!"

There'll be more to come nearer the date, but for those not familiar; I know there have been a lot of new people join the hobby during the covid lock-downs, details are on the poster or;


Tel: 01483 722 778

Address; The Editor, 65 Walton Court, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5EE, UK
And they are on Paypal
 
It'll be the 37th actual show, but should be the 39th, and it is the 39th year . . . I think!
 
* ** ***   ****    *****     ******     *****    ****   ***  ** *
 
 And don't forget it's Sandown park tomorrow, I'm going to risk it (three jabs and a mask on my wagon!), last one was a bit quiet, so try to make it down, the stuff's all there! And staying home listening to the news is bloody depressing, so have a day out and buy some old toys!

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

H is for How They Come In - Two Months Three Parcels!

When I started catching-up with these in the Autumn, we were over a year behind, but with this post we get closer to only six-months behind, and with the ongoing Historex stuff and a couple of other things, I'll try to get fully up-to-date soon . . . ish!

American Indians; Erasers; Hing Fat; Jeu; Jeunow; Laurrel & Hardy; M.U.S.C.L.E; Mattel; Mixed Figures; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Model Soldiers; Mixed Novelties; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toy Soldiers; Mixed Toys; MUSCLE; Native American; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tim Mee; Tim-Mee; Transformer Robot; Vi!Kondo; Wild West;
This lovely little lot was sent to the Blog by Peter Evans last August, and you can see the forth colour of robot/transformer - in a cereal premium style - which I mentioned when we looked at Peter's latest donation a few weeks ago, the bags include the Chinese Army-funded Jeunow-Vi!Kondo stuff who've had their own post already (October, they missed RTM!), Russians and medievals from Hing Fat; white with bases, silver - stand on their own two feet! The orangy bag has the Hing Fat Egyptian stuff, which I will compare with the K&S/Safari sets when they come back out of storage.

American Indians; Erasers; Hing Fat; Jeu; Jeunow; Laurrel & Hardy; M.U.S.C.L.E; Mattel; Mixed Figures; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Model Soldiers; Mixed Novelties; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toy Soldiers; Mixed Toys; MUSCLE; Native American; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tim Mee; Tim-Mee; Transformer Robot; Vi!Kondo; Wild West;
Peter sent another parcel in September of which the main sample was also added to that Jeunow and Vi!Kondo post linked to above, while various other bits and pieces were included, both vintage (Monogram copies, mini's) and modern - 70mm 'armymen' and vehicle/ships.

American Indians; Erasers; Hing Fat; Jeu; Jeunow; Laurrel & Hardy; M.U.S.C.L.E; Mattel; Mixed Figures; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Model Soldiers; Mixed Novelties; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toy Soldiers; Mixed Toys; MUSCLE; Native American; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tim Mee; Tim-Mee; Transformer Robot; Vi!Kondo; Wild West;
Brian also sent a donation to the blog in September*, a couple of the main pieces from the lot having been removed for the canoe project before this shot was taken, but still very useful stuff including a set of the TSR 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' board game character figures, I know I've got them because we've seen them here before, but these will get a decent painting once I'm settled at the other end - wherever and whenever that is! And because I have plenty of the 'counter' figures, I'll paint-up a few of them at the same time.

* Err . . . email conversation says August, and in time for RTM, where we saw the missing items . . . I'll leave it like this as it gives you some idea of the chaos at SSW Towers, this is the chronological order of the photographs, I must have put Brians to one side for a few weeks before sorting/shooting them?!!

There's also some nice knock-off's of the Mattel MUSCLE figurines, and Wild West from US makers including the earlier Tim-Mee stuff, which I was meaning to do a bigger post on, but managed to forget to take the pictures before they all went to storage, but there are some 'sorting Wild West' shots somewhere! I also got a Mickey Mouse firefighter to share with you!

American Indians; Erasers; Hing Fat; Jeu; Jeunow; Laurrel & Hardy; M.U.S.C.L.E; Mattel; Mixed Figures; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Model Soldiers; Mixed Novelties; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toy Soldiers; Mixed Toys; MUSCLE; Native American; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tim Mee; Tim-Mee; Transformer Robot; Vi!Kondo; Wild West;
Also and under the 'seen elsewhere' banner were these delightful Laurel and Hardy cartoon/caricature erasers, who went on the Friend of PW Faceplant group at the time!

Cheers Brain, cheers Peter, all good stuff; gratefully received, shared here and/or otherwise made use of!

Sunday, February 20, 2022

F is for Follow-up - Glow in the Dark Bug-eyed Aliens

Very much a follow-up to this post, which does itself link to the previous sighting here, so a third outing tonight! And far from just ID'ing them, I've managed to find and ID three lots under four monikers which is a pretty satisfying state of affairs, I can tell you!

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They weren't capsule toys (I'm sure I've seen something similar on gum-ball machine insert-cards, so I'll keep an eye out for more on these!), they were Cosmo Explorer Glow in Dark Alien aliens, and imported or 'jobbed' into the 'States by Way Out Toys Inc., of New York (left hand card), however, under the Way Out sticker is the unmistakable Soma logo printed on the backing card!

So the ones we looked at last time were Soma, and in this pack we have a new three-finger pose (pink, right) and a new four-finger pose (greenish, left), and a colour variant - in the middle - of the pair I already had, with plastic-colour, pose and paint variations; who knows how many you can find? Soma pose-counts are often in sixes or twelve's, so it should be dozens, as a minimum . . .  oh goodie!

Meanwhile the card on the right shows what seems to be all four poses (some sources state six poses, but the blister say four - two pairs, two singles) of the Imperial Toys (another importer/jobber, but also a contracting one) Glow in the Dark Alien Invaders, in what seems to be all three colours.

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Well, once you know what you're looking for, finding them (and inaccurate information about them! I'm talkin' to yooh - Pinterest and Wortpoint!) becomes easy, so I bought some . . . so you don't have to! But why wouldn't you want a glowing army of human-knapping cattle-botherers!

The Imperial ones are slightly less sophisticated in that they all [and only] have black eyes, with no other decoration and a lower pose-frequency count on the two with weapons, but then the Soma planet sends it's emissaries out with no weapons at all, so on that score these guys are better-off!

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Close-ups; because I can, and because the Soma ones are good-enough in the link and now in storage, so I couldn't shoot them for this post and I didn't want to de-card the three newies. I would imagine Imperial commissioned theirs after they'd seen Soma's, but the factories in China may have spied on each other; bringing them out at roughly the same time - around 1992-94'ish, I believe?

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But I got a half-decent image through the blister and shone a torch on them for the de rigueur glowing in the dark shot! On the eight I have now we can see gold, blue, green and orange paint with a distinct four polymer colours. And while Imperial have gone with one 'species', Soma's are - so far - all different.

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They are all a nice 54/60mm with the Imperial Toys set having a constant, slightly cone-headed physiology (for people who follow all that 'greys', 'nordics', 'talls' and 'midgets' LGM stuff), with the cone/bulge at the rear. They are also all marked 'Imperial-[over]-CHINA' faintly, across their shoulders.

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All the searching which resulted from knowing what they all were actually threw-up a third lot, another novelty importer; Amscan, their's sold as an eight in North America and a twelve here (but the spelling suggests they were both available for order in all sales-territories?), but only one pose/colour-way, with orange eyes. I haven't got any yet (they are findable), but in those multiples, too-many, so I'll wait until I see one or two in a loose/mixed lot.

I can't work out if the picture bottom-right is a mock-up or an artist-enhanced photograph, nor is it clear whether they have been and gone or are yet to arrive, but the image comes up when Googling them, so it (the picture) has been released somewhere (might have been the Amscan website), for some reason . . . something to look for!

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I kept forgetting to turn the light off and/or turn-off the flash (the cat thought I was mad!), and so several similar shots resulted in an obvious .gif presenting itself!

It's like a 1970's disco' floor . . . "OOOOoooooo'Ifeellove-Ifeellove-Ifeellove-Ifeellove . . . Iyyyyy Feeel Luuuurve . . . I FEEL Luuurve, Luuurve, Luuurve Luuurve . . . I feel luuurve . . . piew-piew-dugaduga-whang-whang piew-piew-dugaduga-whang-whang Phessheewwww! Cheers Donna; the ultimate bangin' choon - and a nice spacey soundtrack for little rubber aliens!

And many thanks to 'Patti' in the US-of-A who sent me extra figures!