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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.

Friday, January 26, 2018

P is for Papo - 2 - Toy Fair Video

I shot this at the Toy Fair and I'm afraid it's fighting both my inabilities to take vaguely professional-looking video in a hurry, which leaves some of it jerky or fuzzy (or both!) and the resonance of the strip-lights being used on the display stands, which leads to flickering, but there's some stuff in focus or well-lit, or even both!

The forts are wooden and in the catalogue, as are most of the pirate ships; however there are also heavy pressed-card 'play-sets' at a lower price bracket. Whether wood or compressed-card, they mostly seem to be a joint venture with another company, or sub-branding called Isiploy or Isiplay?

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