A-Z is for Padgett Brothers - 2025

So back to Birmingham for this year's Spring Gift Fair, and Padgett had most of the stuff from '23, and most of the stuff previously seen in London, and a bunch of new space stuff, and some other stuff, so I took lots of pictures of their stuff!

 

The dogs have new A-Z branded cards.

 

And, as a range, are joined by more cartoony domestic animal sets.

 

Joke shop staples!

 

All-new Dinosaur sets, it's the same twelve animals to find/collect, but there are various assortments, and as people like me will be getting them over some time from charity shop bags, this is the image guide!

 

Not the best shot, but a larger tub of bigger beasts!

 

The insects are now on parade!

 

There's always one! Two years ago I managed to shoot the very bottom of the tub by accident, this year I wasn't in focus, but didn't realise, maybe next year or in two years time, if it's still on display!

 

Better shot's of the two window-boxes!

 

But I did get the 'new' (ish?) tubs in focus! Farm & Zoo.

 

All sorts of new NASA/Realistic-themed space toys, most of the figures are probably outside the parameters of even my collection, but there's a lot of useful stuff in there anyway, ground vehicles, satellites etc . . .

 

The guys sitting on moons and asteroids in the first shot are all over evilBay as hard, poured-resin versions, I suspect these are softer PVC-alike, and may be the originals, while there are [larger?] night-light versions, so a new 'thing' which will be around for a while, I don't know if it's one maker or several involved?

 

New 'army men', following the trend of having a piece of scenery integrally-attached to the sculpt/base, but not the figures we've seen here a couple of times, these are older sculpts repurposed/nth-generation pirated!

 

We've seen these before here, and in a subsequent follow-up post, which both produced a few comments sending me down a rabbit hole, and which also led to further purchases. Meaning, for several years there has been a follow-up in the queue, probably two or three posts-worth, or one very long post? Which I'd better bump-up the queue, now I've mentioned them!

I think the three above are the better ones with accurate chassis and detailed superstructures, while the lower set of eight are the poorer ones with generic running-gear and simplified, one-colour air-brush weathered bodies?

A-Z is for Padgett Brothers - 2023

I don't have as much Padgett as other brands in the archive pile, as their stuff is always interesting enough to post nearer the time of taking, certainly all the London Toy Fair stuff has gone-up in the past, but with everything else going on recently, I did leave 2023's Gift Fair shots in Picasa, so this is they, and then we'll have this year's efforts later.

 

Paint your own Dinosaurs

I think we've seen these elsewhere, possibly in different packaging

 

Lots of other Dinosaur stuff, some, like the silly (not if you're a kid, I know!) vehicles, have smaller 'companion' dinosaurs. Some of this is branded to A-Z, some of it more generic, and as such harder to ascribe, especially if you've seen it somewhere else first!

 

Farm, zoo, sea-life and more Dinosaurs, in sets. I'm pretty sure I recognise the larger bears; Panda and Polar, and I'm sure that the odd-coloured sheep is in the pile somewhere, so I suspect a fair amount of this is already in the stash, among the unsorted stuff of the last few years.

 

A range of domestic dogs with what looks to be three sizes of card, six small, three-each mediums and larger, or is it a trick-of the eye, due to how they have been hung?. They are very reasonable sculpts, and well decorated in what is several colours for most of them.

 

The Insects clearly weren't ready, so get a colour print of the catalogue/online artwork! And another set/size of Dinosaurs!

 

More retail counter-display boxes - farm, wild animals and leery lizards!

 

Pretty sure these cows were in a donation from Jon Attwood or Peter Evans?

 

Likewise, I've already put one or two of these chaps in the stash, I think?

 

A BTR60pb/VAB hybrid? Nice-looking model for 54mm figures, though.

 

Another farm set, with different animals to the previous one, above. These have the look of those thin-walled, hollow dinosaurs we've seen here on previous occasions, but they might be solids, it's hard to tell from looks alone!

L is for Lots of London Loot - Jan. Through Feb. 2 of 2

A continuation of the previous post, and as I tend to post these in the order I shoot them, we’re back with the leery pink background first . . .

 

A trio of the really rather exquisite Les Higgins English Civil War figures, gang-up against a Minifigs (?) Royalist! Although he's more of a fancy-pants, so may be a Swiss mercenary!

 

Matchbox US policeman and a similar firefighter from Hong Kong/China.

 

Bullyland Cacophonix.

 

Another Marx Moses (we saw a brown one the other day), a . . . Gormiti type thing? And a doctor from a set of infant or early learning toys? These actually come in two sizes, but go back-off to charity every now and again, I think we've ID'd one type here, with a Toy Fair report and the others may be 'Tikes or Mattel or someone  like that?

 

A couple of Hong King divers with the plug-in heads, we've seen small rack-toy sets of these, but it's nice to get a few loose samples for close-ups. The Dinky road menders watchman, a Huskey/Corgi policeman and a couple of other HK pieces.

 

Airfix or Airfix-related, nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!  I think he's meant to be a crusader though, and it's the daft shooting-skyward para' under all that modelling! Finally, my favourite ACW Confederate pose (never available as a Union sculpt), seen here as a home-cast copy!

 

A selection of kit figures, mostly Airfix, but the sailors may be Tamiya or another MTB/Fast Boat kit's crew, and the two air stewardesses could be another maker too?

 

In the background we have two lots of early Airfix HO-OO copies, a small bag of Roco Minitanks with stab-and-hope flesh paint and a near complete set of Matchbox commandos - missing their boat!

 

In the middle-distance is a nice sample of Britians Lilliput, which will help top-up that boxed set we saw here a while ago, and in front of them a few Lone Star 'Afrika Korps' are about to be neutralized by a larger contingent of UN paratroops from the same maker!

 

A nice trio of interesting combat types, with one of the so-called 'Bonnie Bilt' semi-flats to the left, but in the more-local soft polyethylene, a home piracy or minor-make (?) copy of Britains in the centre, and one of the probably Pioneer (for Stonegalleon or Zita?) figures, which could also be Realtoy or someone else!

 

Bits and bobs! Mostly generic fencing or model railway walling, with a Supreme Wild West sign-post (top right) and three pieces of Lik Be (LB)'s farm fencing - bottom left, along with a bag of Airfix Betta Bilda bricks.

 

Various Hong Kong trees/plants, and a fireplace from Merten.

 

 Bellona pup-tents, a Wardie/Mastermodels station bench,

 and a couple of boxes for the spares zone!

 

More spares, including the Mafia 'violin-case', from a (Monogram?) car kit, a ship's yard, solitaire piece, Action Man pistol with broken trigger, Britains musket, plastic toothpick and some runner oddments! Also, an ornate pressed-tin washer of the sort you used to get on toy holsters and gun-belts from the likes of Crescent, Lone Star or Marx.

 

I thought these were stands of some kind, but I think they are dividers for old multi-drawer component storage units, of which I have several types in actual storage, so they may prove very useful going forwards!

 

A mix of mostly pretty generic farm animals, although it's hoped some will be ascribed over time, and while the purple-patch rabbits have a loose association with Blue Box or Tai Sang, it's not concrete at the moment.

 

Likewise, poultry and game, with an errant pair of Crescent-copy lambs!

 

Slightly more substantial in the interest department are these Britains lambs and duck family, better-quality Hong Kong rabbits and a rather nice PVC hen.

 

Modern 'China' farm animals.

 

More nice cows (see previous post), the pair on the left need a bit of digging, while the one on the right has suffered horn-surgery!

 

Two Crescent farm animals, foal and donkey, with what I think is a Britains in the middle, but is it an O-gauge horse (which could even be Hornby?) or a 54mm foal?

 

As well as a large quantity of previously-mentioned pewter/whitemetal war gaming stuff, there was all this Atlantic, mostly loose, and a bunch of flattened boxes, but not a lot could be made into whole sets, and some brittleness will mean a better sort into my similar stocks before it all makes sense!

 

Thanks again to Peter Evans, and another thought for the late Mikael Hyde, the Atlanitc was his, all useful grist to the mill, or bricks in the wall!