Monday, May 31, 2021

Brown


Sliding Brown is a figure from Pop Mart in 2020. He's part of the Line Friends, a collection of corporate mascots for the Line Corporation. Last week featured Sally from the same line. He's married to Cony, who also has a skateboard figure in this set but it's the "secret" figure (and therefore too expensive for me).

 

Monday, May 24, 2021

Sally

Skateboard Sally figure from Pop Mart in 2020. Sally is from Line Friends, a series of corporate mascots from the Line Corporation. Sally is a baby chicken, although apparently frequently mistaken for a duck. She hangs out with Brown, a bear who will be featured next week.

Monday, May 17, 2021

Buzz Lightyear & Rex


Buzz Lightyear & Rex riding tandem from Toy Story 2 (1999). It looks like this was a pull back or rev up skateboard but whatever internal mechanism once existed is done for and the wheels are just free spinning now, like a real skateboard I guess.


 

Monday, May 10, 2021

OMO Chimp


This chimp was a premium figure found in OMO laundry detergent in 1996. I guess maybe that is a normal thing in Europe. We just settle for toys in cereal over here in the US. Or at least we used to - I don't think that's been a thing for quite awhile now.

 

Monday, May 3, 2021

Bart Simpson XII

Bart didn't have too many appearances early on (compared to Snoopy or Garfield) but he is slowly catching up. He's seen here in pin form again, going fast. This graphic is often accompanied by a speech bubble saying "Gangway, man!" and sometimes with the "skateboard champion of the universe" title below.