As a complete contrast to Pirates, this is the stuff of a whackier nature I picked up at last June's Plastic Warrior show, not as much in this category as some years, but a couple of really quirky things, a nice box-ticker, and a rarity or two!
A T-Rex, on a skateboard, waving an axe? It doesn't get much weirder than that, except it's just about to! And while it may be
Kinder, it could be a lesser make of capsule-egg, or even a gum-ball type thing?
The Heudebert marked copy of a Captain Video figure was a lovely find, and while the original is one prone to damage, here they've shortened the firearm into more of a pistol, and despite the fine barrel, it has survived! While the actually Kinder gnome, is standing front of the Lone Star toadstool house!
And no, this is not where it gets weirder, this is pretty weird, but not the real weirdness! A money-box/bank, made by the same division that was responsible for the rubber pet-toys and squeakers, this is a stable (non-weeping) PVC, issued under the
Eaglet branding.
This is the box ticker, a set of the
Toys R Us bucket set
True Legends - Mythical
Warriors fantasy figures, one of each pose, so someone was offloading their master set? I've seen them credited to both
Toy Major AND
Chap Mai, it's likely to have been one or the other, and with other
True Legend sets having the
Toy Major sleleton warriors, for now, I'll go with them. Brian Berke did send us a handful of these, a while back, but no one ID'd them at the time!
Weirdness, but still not the weirdest, the Alien is about seven inches, and while made of rubber, seems to have a very solid interior, like it's metal underneath, you could certainly use it as a cosh! UFO lawn-skittles maybe?
The Wonder Woman is a cord-tie type thing, I've seen others, for school-bags or whatever, sometimes they are a keychain type thing . . . I don't know, I'm blagging it, off vague memories of things seen, out and about, it was in one of the donation bags!
From the right . . . no, the RIGHT, we have another of the larger
Captain Video space/GI figures from
Lido Archer, then an unknown figure which looks both character-driven and a bit
Phidal-looking, but probably not actually by them, maybe a
Ben 10 thing?
In the middle is the female scarecrow, pencil-top, who looks like a line-up completer, for the John Pertwee era, Worzel Gummidge set; I don't recognise the character? I have three now, I think, and I assume there's at least four, so, with this and two Gummidge's, I suspect I'm still looking for a rendition of Una Stubb's Aunt Sally?
The monkey is a tea-bag premium I think, while on the far-left, is the real weirdness, it's so weird, it's been left-off the left of left-field!
This was in a bunch of smaller bits from Adrian, and I looked at it and said something about 'fun' and 'homemade', and he looked a little hurt at my dismissal of his offering, and sure enough, when I got it home (my eyesight is getting shit! But I have got reading glasses now), it became clear that while, yes that is bread-bag ties for arms and legs, the whole assembly seems to have commercial thought, and actual design behind it?
Originally a cartoon dog keyring and pencil-topper, the green tie has been carefully designed to have the arm-and-leg twists run over the top of it, and down channels in the sides, so as it's pushed into the pencil cavity it holds everything tight. The boots are gum-ball charm, football boots, while the cartoon hands should have convinced me straight away.
Everything is PVC except the bag-ties, which are in a non-standard (for bag-ties) colour, and everything is filled/sealed with what looks like the plumbers-sealant I use for PVC mends. That someone ever thought this up, let-alone thought it might have commercial potential is extraordinary, but someone else looking at it, remembered something like them, in gum-ball capsule machines!
It's a commercially manufactured, 'homemade' bendy toy, gum ball prize! Of a dog, in a tie, with Mickey Mouse gloves, and football boots, with googly eyes!
A couple of
Matchbox whatsit-2000 figures, an
Aristocat cereal premium, an unknown . . . trash-panda?
Kinder maybe? A phone-ornament/hanger, of
Buzz Lightyear, an
Autobot's fireable fist (?) and a
Star Wars looking, action-figure sidearm!
Kinder either side,
Daffy Duck as a plug-together '
Steckfigure', along with one of the cartoon 'deform' spacemen, but between them, in slightly marbled yellow plastic, too large for a
Kinder egg, is a
Res Plastic solid, of
Speedy Gonzalez! And obviously punched for a key-ring or cord.
As I can never remember which of these
Tinykins I have, I'll always buy them, if I see them going cheap, and these were reasonable, so I grabbed them. I think I have most of them, but the cousin-ducks are all different, and I don't know if I have all of them, and wasn't sure if any
Thumper I have has both ears!
As before; thanks are due to - Issack, Graham
Apperley, John Begg, Barney Brown, Brian Carrick, Peter Evans, Adrian
Little, Michael Mordant-Smith, Trevor Rudkin, Steve Vickers, and with no
emails since the intro-post, anyone else who gave me stuff, I've
forgotten to add! Many thanks to all.
