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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 - 3 - Animals

Photo's aren't so good, so I'll just chuck them up here as a guide to what's available, the circus trainer is the standard 70mm range, while the parrot is out scale, but many of the animals are - while there is a range of a half-dozen or so 'Giant Figure' animals, for infants, but within the animal range there is a large variation with small animals (birds, rodents, lizards etc..) being sculpted larger and large animals (humpbacked whale) being sculpted much smaller.

New for 2018 in the flesh.

All the animals and civilian additions for the 2018 season as seen in the catalogue (there's three more new dinosaurs and a caveman missing), the arctic native is lovely and if they weren’t so big, they'd be more useful for 'old school' figure collectors, although that accessory set of tools may be of use to diorama modellers in 1:35th/32nd scales?

Wild Animal Kingdom shop display-stand

Marine Life shop display-stand.

Both the above are pre-cut card dispensers for the retailer to fold and slot together, each coming with a compliment of animals to match the illustrated frontage-cards, there are also more substantial particle-board stands with  metal fittings display in various sizes, and a revolving, wire-hook tree for some individual animal models - available as key-rings.

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