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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

S is for Space Paratroop

After the paratrooper post the other day I found two more shots in Brian's folder, one of which should definitely have been in that post (Jaru card variant), still, we will return to paratroopers again and I'll try to remember to use them both then!

In the meantime we are looking at a Paratroop toy with no parachute!

These turn-up as single figures, loose, from time to time as they were probably quite common once, however it's nice to see them in the packaging, and who needs a parachute in space!

Copies of MPC spacemen, but with lenticular faces behind fish-bowl visors which gives them a quite realistic look . . . who am I kidding; you've probably all seen them in the flesh . . . they look like lobotomised starey dolls; the Stepford Space Paratroop!

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