Bitty Pop Town

Funko Bitty Pop! Towns is the name of the new series of little buildings and little people from Funko

This one is based on the TV series Friends, and it is Central Perk the coffee shop, and Rachel Green is the tiny pop person.

Like the previous one I reviewed these are nicely packaged and sturdy models.

It contains one figure and one building.

The building has an open front so that the figure can be inserted from underneath and look out the window.

The figure is about 1 inch tall and comes in a miniature version of the usual Pops box.

The building is nicely detailed all the way around, this side is particularly nice.

I am considering just putting a window into this space.

 Here it is with the figure inserted.

KWIK-E-MART

The KWIK-E-MART is pretty well detailed on the exterior.  Note the electrical meter on the side.

The back side is a bit plain.

This side has the burglar alarm bell, a door and graffiti.  I hate graffiti. My plan is to print out a Coke billboard and paste it over the vandalism.

Front is pretty good, parking sign, milk crates, bike rack and something people under 20 years old have never seen before, pay phones with a telephone directory book.  Some of that may be repainted.

Here is Bart with some kind of Slurpee type drink.

Bart inside the door.  My thought is to print out a "glass" door with metal frame photo and glue it to a piece of plastic to make the door.

I got two of them since it is supposed to be a chain of stores.  The figures will join the Buzz heads as Junkanoo figures.  I am also considering making them into 7-Eleven stores since I worked at one for a while, decades ago; when we used pay phones.

007 stops for a Slurpee and to use the phone.
 

Bart Simpson

I have probably watched three episodes of The Simpsons in the 35 years they have been on TV.  So I have a vague understanding of the characters and ideas of the show but it just never interested me.

Now Funko has released a new series that contain a very small Pop figure and a very small building.  And that does interest me.

It this case it is the KWIK-E-MART convenience store from the show and Bart Simpson.

Here is the legal stuff.

It is a clever idea, you get a figure that comes in a miniature Pop type box and a building that is associated with the character.  The figure can be removed from the miniature Pop box and inserted into the building where he looks out of the, non-existent front door.

Shown here in the full package insert.  These are designed to be collectable so they can be removed from the package, handled and then returned to the package without having to damage the package.  Very clever idea.  I throw the package away.

The miniature Pop figure can be returned to his miniature Pop package.  I will likely make a door for the building.
 

Cowabunga Dudes

No fish, just the waves they came with.  They are easily broken off and the tab on top cuts off easily.

Using a bit of sheet plastic I made two surfboards and planted a couple surfers on top.

These are not glued, there is enough flat on the top of the wave for the figures to sit nicely.

I collect surfer figures for several reasons.  Surfing was popular in Hawaii near Pearl Harbor even before the Second World War, Joker and Batman had a surfing competition to see who ruled the waves, Apocalypse Now informed us there was surfing in Viet Nam during the war, I am doing "American Cities" as part of my collection and one of those cities is greater Los Angeles where surfing has always been popular.

I may get a few more, I think they look pretty good as is, but of course a blue water base would look better.
 

Jag Fish

Dory the fish.  I have been looking for subjects to put on my Junkanoo floats and these fish seemed a natural choice.

Jamaica and Bahamas are both islands and fishing is popular as a sport and for a livelihood. 

I got two clown fish and a blue fish.

They are nicely done.

Size wise with a Jaguar and a man for comparison.
 

More Jag

Jaguar underside.

Backside.

Bond side.

Outside a little kiosk.
 

Jag the Car, Not the Lawyers

Hot Wheels Jaguar. 

My British collection is very small.  My main collections are US, WWI and WWII Germans, Soviet Union, and WWII Japanese.  I want to do slices of national capitals for use in WWII and the Cold War to include Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, Moscow, and Tokyo.

That requires a few military and civilian vehicles and figures for them.  Most civilian figures sets will work for most of those countries and I have a lot of generic civilians.

This photo came out poorly which is too bad because the front of this models is awesome.  Better photo coming later.

But I do need a few location specific vehicles.  For the US, and Germany that's not too hard, and the Soviet Union never had many civilian cars.  Japan had few cars too until the 1960s.

So I am gathering up a few for the UK, for James Bond and WWII but trying to keep it under control.

 

Finished Head Swap

Take the MPC head, and poke a mark in the bottom, does not need to be deep, just centered.  I use an awl and it works great.  MPC head is from a brittle figure who was crumbling, but the heads seem to stay good for a long time.

Drill a tiny pilot hole.

Then a larger hold almost but not quite as large in diameter at the wire. Here I am using left over wire from the construction of the scorpion cage.

I use Loctite super glue ultragel control.  It is slightly flexible and so works well in this application.

After putting a drop of glue on the pin, insert the pin into the hole in the body.  Then a second drop of glue on the exposed end of the pin and add the head.

The figure will be painted army men green like the previous version of this figure.

Here with some not brittle MPC figures.