O is for One for Fun

I was going to add these to the end of the Christmas cracker post the other day, but I realised they are very different really, being not small monochrome blobs, but a more sophisticated product altogether! I know! But they can go here, in their own little eraser post!

 

I bought these in a supermarket but can't remember which (Tesco or Morrisons I think, Home Bargains as a maybe?), however it should be available elsewhere or online, as it's an HGL product  from One for Fun, who are the over-brand now, holding Ozzbozz and Tobar in the same stable.

It was less than three quid I think, and for that you get quite a lot, with three plug-together Iwaco knock-offs, two flowers (tulip and rose) and a stegosaurus, three other monobloc dinosaurs which we may have seen before from The Works, three 'flat' sports balls and two space flats, an astronaut and a rocket, all five are polychrome extrusion slices, and another five; random items of over-moulded, miniature domestic household goods/food items. So quite a mix, almost a 'starter pack' for someone new to erasers. Bargain!

W is for Wildlife at The Works

I haven't visited The Works much in the last couple of years, what with everything else that's been happening, but I managed a visit the other day and came away with five inexpensive rack-toys which may interest you, especially if you're looking for Christmas stocking-filler ideas that may help nurture the next generation of 'plastic warriors'.

 

 

Three 'standards'; Dinosaurs, Zoo and Sea Life, no Farm, strangely, nor Insects or Reptiles (the other common subjects in these cases), or Birds, but as a Brucey Bonus the fourth set - in different graphics - is Unicorns . . . of course!

 

The first three are pretty self-explanatory and seem to be new models in the 'mini' oeuvre (we may have seen the dinosaurs elsewhere?), while the Unicorns are rather simplistic sculpts, and poorly bagged, so need to be examined to ensure a decent colour spread with both (yeah! Only two) poses, but all good fun for kids.

They also have, unrelated to the previous quartet, a carded set of rubber-jiggler finger-puppet dinosaurs (which have their own page in preparation), but nice to see such traditional fayre available at this time of year. All five in The Works now, ten-quid, the lot!

A is for A Starman Came Calling . . . With Several of His Mates!

Would you believe our blow-moulded friend from Christmas's past is back again in a third (or fourth?) guise, but there's more this year! First found in Primark (checks Tags, it is four!) in blue, then a pearlescent one turned up from Asda, before a red one came unbranded from a charity shop, now we have a surrealistically decorated one, from . . . Poundland I think, or Morrisons, I've forgotten?

 

The electric blue gloves and boots are a bit speculative, but with Musk, Bezos and Branson regularly exercising their penis extensions now, corporate logos and uniforms are making themselves felt on the launch ramps! And that looks like a Morrisons price-label!

Previous three can be found here, a group shot in a year or two, and what colour will we find next, or where?

This then came-in, and it's a proper blown-glass one, an unbranded generic from TKMaxx, also more realistically painted, with silver standing-in for the white of the original moon-shot suits, but, they are baubles, and silver is sort of metallic-white!

 

Another glass one, which I left on the self, and rather regret doing so now, I sort of felt it was a bit mawkish, with the star being held, but it's a bloody Christmas bauble isn't it, and I was probably being a bit stuck-up, so I may see if I can get one in a day or two! Can't honestly remember where I saw it, possibly the big Longacres garden centre in Bagshot, or Haskins near Birdworld on the Bordon road?

 

And then, as a seasonal Brucey-bonus, this joined the stash this evening, picked-up by chance in a gift-shop in Farnham, well, OK, maybe not purely by chance, what else was I looking for in a gift shop, in Farnham! A 'Space Exploration' pencil from Suck UK, with topper AND clinger!
 

The rocket will join all the other mini/micro space-ships and Anderson stuff, while the figure is a fun piece, who, though skilful sculpting, loses little in the positioning of the pencil's shaft-tunnel, for want of a better word! All spacey/Christmassy and out there now!

 

And . . . I'd better do a quick shout-out for the London Toy Soldier Show, tomorrow in Camden, last show in the calender, and, therefore, the last show for several months, I'll be there!