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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, November 17, 2017

T is for Two - Shelfies

Just in time for Christmas, you may want one or the other or both of these!

Currently being cleared through TK Maxx here in the UK, Schleich blind-bags . . . err . . . blind-packs! You get two figures for 4.99 (I gave them a miss!), which as I've seen these for seven-odd-quid each seems a bargain, but then a few years ago you had £7.99 Revell Epixx reappearing as Blue Box for 4.99, only for most of them to pop-up in Poundland for a quid! So you pays your money and takes your choice with this 60mm+ PVC stuff.

Safer ground with these up-scaled, sub-piracies of the old Galoob sculpts of Starship Troopers, this time from Lanard, but across the pound; "only at Walmart", you lucky buggers, but I'll be checking Asda, just in case! Thanks to Brian Berke for sending these shelfies.

I just love that a sniper is crawling around on the lid, shooting-up the store!

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