D is for Dinosaurs 1 of 2 - K & J P

We saw theses briefly in a 'How They Come In' a while ago, one of my nicer 'scores' from a charity shop this year, still on card but a bit tatty Kenner-Parker (KP) Jurrassic Park (JP) stuff from the early 1990's, probably old 'emergency presents' found at the back of the 'phone-drawer years later!

Because they were tatty and due to ever-increasing space-restraints, I have de-carded them, the cards scanned and sent to fire-lighting; at this time of year recycling drops-off here!

From the fact that stickers have been added with an over-print for the consumer-information panel we can tell that these were current-stock as Hasbro bought the Tonka empire to which Kenner-Parker then belonged, and it also enables the set codes to be worked out, the original (un-stickered) cards having only a generic 61027 'assortment' code;

61028 - Brachiosaurus & Velociraptor

61029 - Ceratosaurus & Triceratops

61030 - Pteranodon & Gallimimus

61031 - Ankylosaurus & Hadrosaurus

61032 - Dilophosaurus & Stegosaurus

61033 - Tyrannosaurus & Dimetrodon

61034 - Plesiosaurus & Iguanodon

You distract 'im Baz, and I'll 'ook 'is neck!

Matchbox were doing die-cast JP things at about the same time, so whether it was a shared license, or just a  quality stipulation from the licence issuer I don't know, but it's an odd co-incidence that two companies should be making similar sets in an unusual material (for figurals) at the same time, pertaining to the same movie?

Oooh . . . Me'favorite! Dimetrodon; showing how you can display each model's card in the little slot shown on the back of T-Rex's stand, also highlighting the gruesome fact that 'Rex is about to chow-down on a rather old, sun-faded carcass . . . nom-nom-nomnivore!

A couple more JP dino's, we've seen one already and I may have some more in the ex-storage pile, but the dinosaur box/boxes (can't remember) haven't surfaced yet? Pretty standard PVC-type plastic and I used to think the mark was the toymaker's, but believe it's actually a park-owner's tattoo found on the CGI'd animals in . . . err . . . the second (?) movie? So these are probably Hasbro/Mattel too, but I don't know.

News, Views Etc . . . F is for Free Toy Soldiers!

Dunklin County Libraries (Missouri) are giving away free toy soldiers on Veteran Day if you drop by, the links are problematical (I had to view the 'cashed' version, and as a 'text-only') so if anyone 'over there' can get a better link please do and chuck it in the comments.

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Friday, October 26, 2018

As the Dunklin County Library kicks off celebrating Veterans Day, stop by any library in Dunklin County and pick up a toy soldier as a reminder of the men and women serving our country. Also, each location will honor veterans with a special display inviting county patrons to bring in a framed 5 x 7 or 8 x 10 photograph of a veteran. The Dunklin County Library in Kennett will feature a salute to veterans during the month of November with displays of pictures, memorabilia, uniforms, and other veteran related items. Harold G. Walker will be at the Kennett location on Monday, November 4, 2018, from 4 pm to 6 pm, to sign his latest book release entitled, The Grotto. This book commemorates his time as a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam war and the camaraderie among fellow soldiers during this tense period.

 

They're probably cheapish rack-toy figures but support the thing anyway!

F is for Follow-up to Flexible Foreign Farm Folk

Following the recent bucket'ess post Brian Berke kindly sent me the off-shoots of his Auburn Rubber 'Dan Dare' hunt, to compare the - believed - Ohio Arts figure with an Auburn original, this is they!

Not only was the Ohio Arts girl carrying a basket of bread, but the original is carrying a basket of eggs; with one of the Britains' girls carrying a bowl of 'cereal' we have a whole, healthy, farm breakfast . . . in polymer! Sausages coming on the 31st . . . !

Here she is with her husband, except that that is an illiberal, patriarchal, old school assumption, worthy only of a reactionary, parochial right-winger! He may be her son, her brother, one of the farm hands or a neighbour; come-over to give a hand at egg-carrying time!

Cheers Brian, another box ticked!

T is for Two . . . Wheels Good . . .

Like Paratroopers and whatever the other thing was the other day . . . goes and checks the 'finished' folder . . . ; footballers (!), this has become another of those perennials, we return to from time to time, dinosaurs, insects and fish are all currently rising-up the queue as well, but today it's a return to two wheels; well, fourteen wheels or - if you want to be a total pedant fifty-seven wheels and at least three - visible - skids!

Roughly in the order they've come in or been shot since we last looked at them excluding a lead flat I think we looked-at separately . . .

Upon the demise of PoundworldPlus back in the summer, this was reduced to 50p with a further reduction at the till taking it to 43p or something! It was worth a punt for a small plastic motorcycle, of Kinder-egg quality? It needed squeezing together properly which I didn't notice until after the photo-shoot, branded to their ITP Imports and coming with a reasonable rendition of an executive type helicopter and a really crappy jeepney-thing which - if pink - would look like Barbie's beach-buggy!

I can't tell you what this cost as it was a present for my Brother on his Birthday! He's one of those people who has everything he wants, and if he really wants something else tends to go and get exactly what he wants himself, so he's very difficult to buy for, but he likes his motorcycles, so when I saw this . . . bingo! Noki are the same people who did the novelty egg-cup and toast-soldier sets, see Small Scale World passim.

I think this is the third time out for this chap, and the second involving contributions from Peter Evans, who recently sent me a very interesting set, with the unpainted black-plastic version. In the meantime I found another (slight colour variation) in the Storage lot, so shot all four together and they now have a new tub, all to themselves, although the black one is still in the bag awaiting next year's RTM.

CHiPs! From storage, from Kentoys, but not the Kenway Cycle Shop of 1950's London, but rather the 1990's Kentoys with a half-mile-long factory in Shatin, New Territories! Now into high-end, larger-scaled, die-casts, they started (as so many HK companies did) with cheaper plastics, these came with blistered sets or singly with larger trucks, in this specific case the 'Wheelers' fire-engine set. They were announced at 1:72 and - basically - would have been in competition with the similar New Ray and Supreme sets of that time; among others.

Is it a Harley Electra-Glide or a Honda Goldwing Aspencade? Now - there's a question for my Brother! Judging from the full-tank and headlight-fairing; I recon a Honda?

Old solid-lead motorcyclist (Postman?), I don't know if it's in Joplin and I haven't looked as I know it's not particularly rated (Adrian had it in his cheapie-tray at Sandown last), so probably a copy of anything similar-looking in the aforementioned tome, or more likely a home-cast which may have been made commercially available? The lead-guys dismiss this stuff (and melt it down!) like some in our polymer-branch of the hobby still dismiss HK stuff, but you know me; I'll post anything!

A bicycle, Cakeboards, resin, cake decoration, the resin pile is piling-up! Nice 54mm and a female subject which is never that common, so pleasantly unusual!

Mr. Berke sent a whole box of donations to the blog the other day with his uncommon generosity, and we will be looking at bits from it over the next few days, as some of it was very timely, but there was also this, Greenbrier/DTSC. I don't know if he and Mr Evans are in competition with their contributions, but this is an even larger scale than the candy-container bicycle we looked at in Rack Toy Month! Guy's; I don't know where to put them!

Thanks again to Brian, Peter and Adrian for some of the above!

M is for Multicoloured Miniature Motoring Marvels From Across 'La Manche'

We were going to have some Dinosaurs here but I ran out of time on Friday-gone and posted this quickly so there'd be something sitting here, come Monday morning!

From the French concern Minialuxe, come these delightful 'Personnage de Tacots' which is like 'old-crocks people' or passengers for old-fashioned cars, scaled to 1:43rd and painted beatifully, I have seen some with plainer decoration, but mine all seem to be 'off to Henley' in their Regatta finest!

Obviously the top one is a part-set and I'm not sure about the packing on the bottom one, I think the figures pre-date the invention of bubble-wrap, let along its common usage!

P is for Paltry Plastic Packet of Popular Pugilistic Polymer Pencil Perching Pals

I know, but sometimes once it's in your head you have to use it or you don't get it out of your head!

We like figural pencil-tops here at Small Scale World, we like plastic personages and we like Tom & Jerry, so that's alright then . . . Phew!

Scale's a bit shot, if I was Tom I don't think I'd be looking quite so unconcerned at the situation, Jerry obviously had his spinach for breakfast, his pintaday and put muck in his boots and - to be fair - Tom's looking a tad effete, maybe he's turned-over a new leaf! Brilliant!

R is for Regular Round-up!

Like yesterday's football/footballers; for many years we didn't really look at paratrooper toys here, but a couple of years ago I did  an overview of what I had here at the time, and since then with a lot of help from New York and keeping an eye-out, we've had quite a few re-visits.

I still haven't found the 'in storage' box, but I spotted a few buried the other day and it may be with them, so perhaps before Christmas I'll have united the two sizeable samples and we can have a better look or over-view of the genre - a favourite here, now.

How they come in! I bought these in Basingrad on the 9th, two from Wilkinson's/Wilco, the other (Phidal Peter Rabbit) from TKMaxx, the monster [snake!] skeleton was really for Halloween, but you've seen it now - it'll look great with skeleton armies though! Phidal are going to need a couple of days now, there's around ten sets, or part-sets in the queue, and anyway it's the paratroopers we're looking at now.

So, N is for Not That Unique Are They! We've looked at their 54mm solid paratroopers here and we've looked at the blow-mould poses as both a blow-mould and solid by other brands or under other brand marks, but under Unique - as I said - these sets of four are in Wilko's at the moment.

I have a set of 12 in the storage lot which I think also came from Wilkinson's but about eight or nine years ago (possibly the green-carded set), while an earlier set existed. The drop in contents reflects inflation, but a drop from 12 to 4 in one step has a whiff of greed too, especially if you were running the twelve for 15-20 years, prior to the sudden count-drop!

A drop to eight would have been a better start, and if you're dropping to four, why not issue one of each colour?

This is a make-weight for the post, the recent D&D Distribution catalogue shot showing the currently common figures we've seen here under several brands already, they are the ones with the closed canopy and single-shroud which I don't like very much! Also, someone needs to have a word with the copywriter!

We've also seen these several times but I couldn't remember if we'd seen a four-blister one, I know Brian B has sent shelfies of Jaru 3-blister packs and I've bought or shelfied two- or three-blister cards, but have we had a four? We have now! Kandytoys of Exeter.

From the archive comes Norton-Thomson's 1988 Lion Group 'Pocket Money Toys' catalogue, and a different take on the paratrooper toy altogether; they are fired into the sky by a long, rigid . . . err . . . 'member' placed . . . err . . . between their thighs, the . . . err . . . 'snake's head' engaging with a steel spring and catch mechanism . . . well endowed lads, but - ouch!

"Most inappropriate toy in INGERLAND EVER!"; he spittle-flecks down the 'phone to the Daily Wail's 'really important news' desk, for lesser bloggers to re-post! Also issued under TNT branding as The Sky Devils Paratroopers as code M7626A.

Y is for Yes . . . I'm Clearing Odd's From Picasa Again!

Little Tykes polymer Little People - eat your hearts out! I Shot this back in July and when I found it I couldn't believe he was still around, almost certainly our first toy figure, he was one of a pair, and may have been preceded as THE first by an equally wooden stacking guardsman on a pole, but I think this came earlier?

When I found him in the garage he was time/sun-faded and mouldy, but a dip in that Barentine wood-treatment and he's almost back to his old self, maybe not quite as green ('army-man' green!) as I remember!

He was one of two, I seem to recall, one behind the other in a big chunk of wood shaped like a racing wedge, open-topped with four large wooden wheels, we loved it when we were very young (3-5 maybe?) and would push it round the house until we banged our heads on something and settled down to a quieter pastime for the afternoon, or . . . got a bollocking for ramming it into some 'so called' valuable piece of 'grown-ups' furniture!

I'll call him Guy, and he can go in the 'Unknown Wood & Other Materials' box. What do you mean "Where's the other shots?"; he's turned on a lathe - this is ALL the shots, his arse really is his elbow!

P is for Penalty Shoot Out

It's funny, but 2018 has turned out to be the year of the footballer on Small Scale World, I don't think we even had the tag before January? But quite by chance they've kept coming, even after the deliberately queued mini-season in Jan'!

I picked this up today (Wednesday) as one of those odd things some charity shops carry from time to time; a corporate donation of over stock, end-of-line clearance or canceled-order stuff and £3.99 is near the retail price I'd imagine, I'd seen them a few days earlier, and they still have a few?

Desktop Distractions from Paladone Products it's been numbered PP3481, 707804 and - most recently - 134774, so has clearly 'done the rounds' of the retail world before ending-up in SCOPE (the mental health charity previously called MIND) the last numbering being added as a sticker over the previous codes and on the goal's stand?

Goal-keeper is hand-operated from a long stick which locates in his back so he would need a base (or a lump of Blue Tac - other proprietary blobs of squidginess are available) to be added to any cabinet/displayed collection! Sculpting is lacking in the facial features department, disappointing given the size, but it's a football game rather than a 'figure toy'?

The striker is a variation of the old rack toy one . . . one of which I think we saw here not that long ago, I seem to remember getting one the other month and shooting it? Try the Football tag!

Anyway, press his head and either a toothed rod running down inside his body activating a hidden cogged arc of plastic at the top of his thigh, or - as in this case - a simple off-set hinge/rod, similarly hidden, causes the foot to fly forward and kick the ball, a spring-return 'resetting' the figure for another go.

With a stretch you can play it with yourself! My 'berserker' needs to find some victims who are actually going to quake at his toothpick of a bayonet; recently he's been going-up against some much bigger opposition!

70mm and interestingly the packaging states it's manufactured from PET (Poly-ethyl[ene]-terephthalate) a polyester with similar properties to polypropylene, ie; it will take the punishment likely delivered from excited little handipuds trying to score goals - yer' typical executive in other words! I'll list it under PP to save having another tag; it's about type/properties and is only a guide!

Ghosts in the machine!

News, Views Etc . . . Forthcoming Events

Saturday's flat but a busy Sunday and plenty going on in the week, it was 10½-weeks to Christmas the 'other day', but err . . . now it isn't! Don't forget the clocks give us an un-earned sixty-minutes in the early hours of Sunday morning, I may spend it writing a love letter to TJF!

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Toy Fairs

Saturday 27th October 2018

Brentwood - J&J Fairs

International Hall, Brentwood Centre, Doddinghurst Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM15 9NN

Web. - www.j-jwebbtoyfairs.com

eMail - jandjfairs@virginmedia.com

Tel. - 01522 880 383 (J & J Webb)

10:00 - Approx. 14:30hrs

Admission £3, seniors £2.50p, 1st child £2

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Sunday 28th October 2018

Chipping Norton - Don Davidson - Collectors Toy & Train Fair

Chipping Norton School, Burford Rd, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5DY

Web. - www.chippytoys.co.uk

Tel. - 01608 641 870

10:30 - 14:00hrs

Doncaster - Barry Potter / BP Fairs - 'Doncaster Racecourse'

Doncaster Exhibition Centre, Leger Way, Doncaster, DN2 6BB
Web. - www.bpfairs.com
Tel. - 01604 846 688
Mob. - 07966 527 177
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission - Adults £4, Seniors £3.50p, Children £1, 'Early Bird' (from 8 a.m.) £10
Plenty of free parking

Great Bentley - R & G Toy Fairs
Village Hall, Plough Road, Great Bentley, Essex, CO7 8LD
Tel. - 01206 251 351 (Gary)
Tel. - 01255 473 509 (Richard)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission £2.00, under 16's free
Free parking, refreshments

Orpington - SRP Toyfairs
Crofton Halls, Orpington, Kent, BR6 8PR
Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk
eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs

Plymouth - Events Frontier - 'Collect-a-Happy' Toy & Train Fair

Plymouth Guildhall, Guildhall Square, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2BJ

Web. - www.eventsfrontier.com

eMail - eventsfrontier@hotmail.com

Mob. - 07508 548 938

Reading - Tony Oaks Toy Fairs

Rivermead Leisure Centre, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8QE

Tel. - 01270 652 773

Mob. - 07825 631 323

10:30 - 15:00hrs

Admission £4.00, accompanied children under 16 free, 'early bird' (from08:30hrs) £10.00, from 'lazy bird' (from 09:30hrs) £7.00

Parking, refreshments, full facilities

Layouts and displays

Dateline show - dealers should carry stock up to 1995 only.

Seaford - Robert Horsecroft - Toy & Antique Collectors Fair

Downs Leisure Centre, Sutton Road, Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 4QW

Tel. - 01323 899 879

Tel. - 01424 846 676

10:00 - 14:30hrs

Admission £1.50p, children under 12 free

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Tuesday 30th October 2018

Elsecar - Newcomen Fairs Ltd. - 36th Elsecar Toy & Train Fair (evening fair)

Elsecar Heritage Centre, Elsecar, Nr. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S74 8HJ

Web. - www.newcomenfairs.co.uk

eMail - sales@newcomenfairs.co.uk

Tel. - 01226 744 425

19:00 - 21:00hrs

Admission £1.50p, children 50p

Garstang - Janet Pearson (evening fair)

Kirkland & Catterall Memorial Hall, PR3 0HR

01282 439 009

18:00 - Finnish

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Thursday 1st November 2018

Theydon Bois - Joe Lock Fairs (evening fair)

Village Hall, Coppice Row, Theydon Bois, Essex, CM16 7ER

Mob. - 07866 641 215

19:00-21:00hrs

Admission £1

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Auctions

Tuesday 30th October 2018

Heaton Mersey - Capes Dunn

40 Station Road, Heaton Mersey, Cheshire, SK4 3QT

Web. - www.capesdunn.com

eMail - capesdunn.caroline@gmail.com

Tel. - 01614 321 911

Collectors and Toy Auction

Newbury - Special Auction Services (SAS)

81 Greenham Business Park, Newbury, West Berkshire, RG19 6HW

Web: www.specialauctionservices.com

eMail: mail@specialauctionservices.com

Tel: 01635 580595

Fax: 0871 714 6905

'Express Toys'

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Wednesday 31st October 2018

Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis

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

Web. - www.vectis.co.uk

eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk

01642 750 616

'Dolls & Teddy Bears'

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Other Events

Friady 26^th – Sunday 28^th October 2018 (coming weekend)

London – MCM Expo / *reedpop / / Adnec Group – ‘Comicon London’

ExCeL London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16 1XL

Web. - MCMLondonOctober@reedexpo.co.uk (promoters)

Web. - info@excel.london (site)

Tel. - +44 (0)208 271 2135 (promoters)

Tel. - +44 (0)20 7069 5000 (site)

Attractions - https://www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/attractions/

Running 'till January? (see note below)

Aldershot - Aldershot Military Museum (with Hampshire Cultural Trust) - The Everyday Tommy Exhibition

Aldershot Military Museum, Queens Avenue, Aldershot, hampshire, GU11 2LG

Web. - www.hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk/aldershot-military-museum

Tel. - 01252 314 598

Artist - Helen Chester's Portraits of the Great War

Although only just advertised in the county magazine, it appears from the museum website and Google in general that this actually ran last year! Check before travelling! However a new work by Helen, commissioned by the Garrison is on display now.

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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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Toys in the media - Milk & More doorstep delivery advertisement in last week's free handout; ES Magazine, timed perfectly to coincide with the news that we all contain polymers, most of which we got from fish (in our guts and expelled) but a fair amount of which is dissolved from plastic food containers (like supermarket milk-bottles) by fats in the contents err . . . like milk and carried into our blood stream!

Look to be Noch or Preiser, I favour Noch (dare I say the paint's to fine for Preiser!), I could look them up but . . . with a scratch-built farm and hen-house and a bit of Photoshop!

Also in ES, who the very-actual-fuck pays 800-quid for a camouflage jacket, someone with more money than sense I fear! Still I'm probably biased - coming from it from the angle that the Queen gave me one for free which is still going after 34-years, although it's getting a bit holey, but presumably that just gets me closer to . . . oh, that's right, he doesn't exist!

It's not even a proper camouflage being the old DPM (1970-1990'ish) with the pale sand taken out, or replaced with a darker brown and the moss green toned down to lichen- it looks horrible, like someone's had explosive-diarrhea in a sleeping-bag! And parkas are supposed to have tails; it's what sets them apart from jackets?

The Levi's one is at least cheap - in comparison to the other two - and fur lined, but it looks like the sort of camouflage you'd find on Central American police or Putin's Donbass militia (perhaps that's who's buying them!), while the Canada Goose is another eight-hundred smackers for something than looks like Swedish army-surplus!

This is why the planet's dying before our eyes; the pink monkeys have lost all sense of reason.

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