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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Sunday, October 22, 2017

F is for Follow-up - Chinacars!

I managed to find vehicles from the big die-cast post in Rack Toy Month just gone three times in one day, all in Basingrad, but I forgot to shoot one, which was a five-pack of the commoner models . . .

. . . which were also in Tiger as single vehicles in simple boxes, with one of those silly fake 'skandie' titles; in this case Bil . . . or bil; the lower-case is everything - I'm not joking - some agency was probably paid £10-grand for that 'idea'!

They also have a simple one-colour finish, but all that simplicity of paint and packaging makes them more expensive at a quid, than some of the more decorated versions we looked at last time, most of which were either also a pound or only 99p!

While these less common vehicles (they were as common as the others about 10/15 years ago though and turn-up loose all the time), as StreetMachine are in Smyths superstores, there was a single-vehicle StreetMachine (imported by Kandytoys; I don't know the importer here) or two in the previous post.

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