The Noch
bar set and the Model Scene came from
the Church Street model shop,
the skydivers and the pencil/eraser/sharpener set both came from The Works I think, not sure about the Team GB Olympic clearance thing (the now
defunct 99p Stores?), while the
blind-bag dino's and Hobbit stuff was
also The Works I suspect.
The Bart Simpson was a blind-bag from WHSmith's or someone similar - it may
have been reduced in Tesco, but it was a while ago!
Can't remember if we looked at these here,
or another pair, also I think these and the dino's may have been bought in
another Works a week earlier and just
hung-around to end-up in the same collective shot?
Much covered elsewhere, so I won't bore you
with the minutiae, there were differences between the first and second series'
plastic colours I seem to recall, and these are 2nd series I think?
The naming of the parts! This has been sat
in Picasa waiting for god-knows-what post, but I thought the way the bare
runner was arranged in the blister made it ideal for labelling-up, if only to
illustrate the difference between the 'Sprue' (missing in most kits/figure
packs) and the 'Runners' which a lot of people refer-to as sprue, and a few idiots
lesser mortals [I must stop insulting everyone] call sprew, sproo or spru!
Some kits, in the past, have had sprue left
on; early Aurora, Pyro and Revell-Monogram type model-kits often included them while some of
the late-production, unpainted Starlux
40mm in the 'figure set' boxes were packed with the sprue intact, in both cases
(old kits and later figures) the sprue had a tendency to damage the box/box-art
over time by wearing a hole/working through the card.
The reason the actual sprue ends-up cone-shaped
is because it stretches as it's pulled away from the still-hot injector head
during the removal of the runners/product from the mould-tool.