The Classic Plastick Toy Company - News and Notes

Okay, then, here are the latest postal destinations this week:

Redwood City and San Jose CA, Norridge IL, Boston MA and the Big Apple- or somewhere close by anyway -New York NY.

In other news: I've got another in the proposed chorus line of Wilton Batman figures on the way, yay! I must have had the Ideal figures- including Batman this same pose, with the same removeable cape, only smaller -as a wee lad but my memories of this figure are clearer. Both my Mom and Grandma were bakers of all manner of doughy products so the Wilton cake decorating catalogs were required reading for them.

For me too with all the colorful cartoony plastic figures made for posing on top of cakes, their feet cemented by ooey gooey frosting. There were wannabe Beatles, cowboys, sports figures, fishermen and there was... Catman, of course. I suppose when their license ran out and there were still hundreds of thousands of figures in the warehouse or on the boat from China they had to obfuscate the true nature of the shadowy character with the batwing cape and the bat emblazoned on his chest with a slight- very slight -change of moniker.

I'd get one every year- after last years model was lost, melted, dismembered, beheaded or otherwise destroyed by the villainous forces roaming free in the backyard -and promptly cut him free from his plastic base. He could no longer stand on his own; a small price to pay for the freedom to swing from a Batrope of white string without the encumbrance of that clunky foot stool o' plastic!

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