garage sales

Boot Sale season has started here in the UK.

These nine figures . . . . 50p


Doraemon by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr


Doraemon by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr


Doraemon by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr

What a score man, love those little guys. I have a few Doraemon minis too, but not nearly as cool characters as those ones. The really lvoe the caveman and wizard, but they are all great. And 50p? damn, what a find. Great hunting once again Moog!

^^ Cheers . . . . some of them were on little springs which i assume was for putting on your car dash so they bounce around.
I think the woman who sold them to me was Thai.

can someone tell me what this print says and/or maybe explain a little? why is the kid hiding, what's the story here? what's up with the red stamps?

Haha, maybe he is sneaking up to steal the sake he isn't supposed to have (though I think this might actually be Chinese).

Found this guy on Craigslist for silly cheap

Great table Kevin. Amazing the things you can find sometimes. Also, my folks have that same gramophone or one very similar (by all outward appearances at any rate).

Great table Kevin. Amazing the things you can find sometimes. Also, my folks have that same gramophone or one very similar (by all outward appearances at any rate).

Nice! It was an estate sale bargain! I picked it up from the orginal owner along with 80 diamond records.

what's up with the red stamps?

Seals are also often used on Chinese calligraphy works and Chinese paintings, usually imprinted in such works in the order (from top to bottom) of name seal, leisure seal(s), then studio seal. Owners or collectors of paintings or books will often add their own studio seals to pieces they have collected. This practice is an act of appreciation towards the work. Some artworks have had not only seals but inscriptions of the owner on them; for example, the Qianlong emperor had as many as 20 different seals for use with inscriptions on paintings he collected. Provided that it is tastefully done (for example, not obscuring the body of the painting, appropriate inscription, fine calligraphy, etc.), this practice does not devalue the painting.

Northern stereotype-amundo!

Finally found one of these old Andy Capp vinyl bottles at a boot-sale for a bargain price . . . . i knew i would eventually.
Half-full of talcum powder from 1969 . . . . and it still smells nice


Andy Capp by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr


Andy Capp by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr


The World of Andy Capp by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr

Haha, Andy Capp! What a great find Moog. We had an Andy Capp book when I was a kid, but I definitely think we didn't understand it (of course). What a bizarre idea to use the character as talcum powder bottle.

^^^ Haha yeah, if Andy Capp was a real person there's no way he'd use Talcum powder. That's for soft-as-shite Southerners, he'd say.

Boot-sale bargain . . . . . Crypt Keeper Talker (missing his outfit).

uh huh uh huh huh huh huh huh . . . . he's naked.


Crypt Keeper by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr


Crypt Keeper by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr

Oh man my son would love that Cryptkeeper. There's one with the outfit at a local comic book store but wayyyyy to much money. Awesome find. The detail without the outfit is so cool.

Squishy-headed Skeletor 1981 . . . . 20p at a boot-sale

I assume he had a sword and various attachments originally . . . i dont know very much about masters of the universe toys.
. . . . although, i did watch the cartoon like every other kid my age!


Skeletor by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr

three recent boot-sale finds

Madballs . . . i assume these are bootlegs:


Ugly Balls by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr

and a big soft vinyl caterpillar . . . weirder looking than most kaiju!


Caterpillar by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr

^^^ Haha yeah, if Andy Capp was a real person there's no way he'd use Talcum powder. That's for soft-as-shite Southerners, he'd say.

haha! Growing up our local newspaper ran the comic, I never really understood it until I got older and got married....

Some great scores, moog!
That caterpillar is fairly nightmarish!

i loveeeee those bootleg ugly balls.

Another boot-sale buy . . . i think it was 20p.

Does anyone remember what these are called?

You put your fingers in four holes in the back and then you can bend the face into weird expressions. I used to have a few of these when i was a kid.


Squidgy Face by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr

I don’t know if they’ve ever had an official name, but they’ve been made in China for decades now. I think there are three main faces in this “line”- the face above; the Angry Bald Moustache Man, used by Anthrax as their “NOT!” mascot for a time in the 80s; and a third that looks like a drunk Stan Laurel, freshly punched in the mouth. Interestingly, there have been some changes in the details and sizing of both over the years, while the basics have stayed the same (much like the Martian Popping Thing of yore versus the version produced today). The ones I had when I was a little kid look very different than the ones that I came across in the late 90s, when my son received a set, and yet another re-tooling is being sold today (apparently at Cracker Barrels all over the country… that’s where my mom bought some that she sent up for Xmas a couple years back). Wish I had comparison pics to post!

http://weirdotoys.com/magic-monster-by-heartland/

This is a rad accessory for those faces!

^ i have some zombie ones.

I just bought my son one from Cracker Barrel last month in Florida. They are much thicker now so harder to move the face around.

^^^ Yeah, thats it . . . the 'NOT' man Anthrax used is one of the versions i had as a kid.

I also had the 'Drunk Stan Laurel' too.

Its funny how some weird but innocuous toys last generations and never seem to fully go-away.

They are called Flexiface but we always used to call them Puttyface Guys

^^ Cool, thanks for the info!