# wild west (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover wild west. Page: Feed: --- ## [A is for Again, I'm Afraid!](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-is-for-again-im-afraid.html) _2026-08-17 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ We've seen these dinosaur pencil tops from Depesche already, but not together, so here they are again, and it should be a last time for them, as they're not deserving of one post, let alone the three or four outings they've had, but that's how the cookie's crumbled on this one! Thinking I still needed one, and that this was it, I grabbed this pencil top a while ago now, and took ## [H is for Have Screwdriver, Will Travel, Interstellar!](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/h-is-for-have-screwdriver-will-travel.html) _2026-08-14 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ This is all courtesy of Peter Evans, with the carded set coming last year around Christmastime, and the figure being in the latest donation, which I picked-up the other day! Apropos the construction sets we saw in the shelfies from Brian the other day, and credited to a Huan Le Play of china, it's sub-branded, on the reverse, to 'Toys' and imported by Yelsa of Luton? It's the figure ## [L is for Louche Lucite Layabouts!](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/l-is-for-louche-lucite-layabouts.html) _2026-08-14 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ We seem to often arrive at Lik Be during Rack Toy Month, and while I tried to resist poking the Northern cow-pat of competitiveness this year, reader Keith Harrison mentioned he had all the missing clear-plastic 'Vitrine' LB robots, of which we saw the other three of, here; https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2023/07/lb-is-for-lik-be.html And he kindly sent some fantastic ## [R is for Roveing Reporter's Rack-toy Round-up #2](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/r-is-for-roveing-reporters-rack-toy_02125559092.html) _2026-08-13 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ The second set of images from Brian Berke were all taken in a New Your branch of a Japanese firm called Daiso, and are mostly beyond the parameters of the Blog, but it's a movable feast, and water-pistols/ray guns have crept in over the years! With Dinosaur! Although not the same, this double-decker looking firearm, reminds me of Deckard's piece from the original Blade Runner movie, I'd ## [P is for Peterkin's Packs of Plastic Pets](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/p-is-for-peterkins-packs-of-plastic-pets.html) _2026-08-13 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ Actually, we've looked at the cats and dogs previously, but there's no good synonym for 'animals' beginning with p? I grabbed most of the outstanding Peterkin sets, when they appeared in one of the local garden centre's as post Christmas re-stock, then Peter Evans gave me another the other day, leaving two duplicates to be shot close-up, and a box-ticking check-list of the others, adding to the ## [L is for Lucky Large Bags!](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/l-is-for-lucky-large-bags.html) _2026-08-12 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ We saw the two current issues of 'cornucopia' back in December, and one of these in Jan., and there was another, similar beast, in the queue, until I visited Peter Evans the other day, and he gave me a second, so we're looking at them both today, the contents being quite similar to each other, suggesting a common source for the contents, if not the management/corporate origin. To be honest, ## [S is for a Surfeit of BJ's](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/s-is-for-surfeit-of-bjs.html) _2026-08-11 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ Well, it's been going begging since they first appeared around 2015, and as they are now widespread in convenience store/corner shops and a lot of petrol/service stations/garages, I'm sure more puerile title puns will be forthcoming! These are mostly from Peter Evans, I think, although I have picked-up a few myself, and there may be some un-posted mini's somewhere, I definitely bought, back last ## [B is for Bab's Aplenty!](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/b-is-for-babs-aplenty.html) _2026-08-11 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ Further to the previous post's Barbies, and apropos a comment Tom made a while back, he sent this image of various Barbies, in the smaller scales, some of which we saw here; https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2024/04/m-is-for-micro-toy-box.html As a point to mention - there are now several of these micro-mini 'branded' collectables, but the others are more consumer goods or, ## [R is for Roveing Reporter's Rack-toy Round-up #1](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/r-is-for-roveing-reporters-rack-toy.html) _2026-08-10 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ The Blog's New York-based roving reporter Brian Berke, seriously anticipating Rack Toy Month, sent these shelfies, back at the start of January, although he was probably aiming at the novelty-post element of the Christmas season, but for some reason, too much stuff, or my tardiness (checks history, 122 posts over Dec/Jan, so too much stuff!) that never happened, so we're looking at them now!  ## [B is for Bunk House](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/b-is-for-bunk-house.html) _2026-08-10 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ I mentioned in the first part of the Wild West plunder from last month's Plastic Warrior show plunder posts, that I'd got a post in Picasa's 'long queue' on the subject of the orange log-cabins. In fact, it was down in 1971 with the rest of the RTM stuff, and as a fortuitous post elsewhere has just covered them in passing, we might as well have them now - it's nice when a plan comes together!& ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wesnXiQFSjCj) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [B is for Bunk House](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/b-is-for-bunk-house.html) _2026-08-10 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ I mentioned in the first part of the Wild West plunder from last month's Plastic Warrior show plunder posts, that I'd got a post in Picasa's 'long queue' on the subject of the orange log-cabins. In fact, it was down in 1971 with the rest of the RTM stuff, and as a fortuitous post elsewhere has just covered them in passing, we might as well have them now - it's nice when a plan comes together!& ## [News, Views Etc . . . Toys in the Media](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/news-views-etc-toys-in-media.html) _2026-08-09 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ We haven't had a 'news/views' for a while, nor have we had a 'toys in the media', so here's a quickie, using a couple of dodgy shots I took off the screen, from a puff-piece on sci-fi movies on YouTube, where if you watch one, you get another hundred in your feed! "Movies which broke the studio", "Sci-fi movies nobody saw", 10 sci-fi movies which everyone's forgotten", Sci-fi movies which ## [H is for Hasbro's Air Raiders](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/h-is-for-hasbros-air-raiders.html) _2026-08-08 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ We saw one of these back at the beginning of the Blog, but sometime in 2021 I picked up another one, the trouble is, it's the same one, I still need to find the purple 'enemy' or other side, although we've seen some loose! But we can have a quick box-tick of this card, as it's been sitting in Picasa for five years waiting! And, of course, with reference to an exchange of comments the other ## [RTM is for Red Deer's Toy Merchandise!](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/rtm-is-for-red-deers-toy-merchandise.html) _2026-08-08 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ Bit of eye candy for the lovers of low-brow, low shelf kaka from the former colonies of the Far East, and these are out there now, with Peter Evans having provided some, while I found the others locally. We've seen Red Deer before, but these are further branded, or ascribed to an OTL of Leeds . . . and Poland?! Hing Fat Japanese Infantry clones (and that's funny in itself!), in pink, with a ## [W is for World War Warriors](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/w-is-for-world-war-warriors.html) _2026-08-06 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ So, we come to the last of the PW show plunder posts, twenty posts I've got out of it, this year, and some fine loot was scurried back to Small Scale World's command centre here in North Hampshire, to be shared with the rest of you, and we're finishing with the khaki-clad chaps and their contemporaries. OK, so Google hasn't just changed the graphic on the upload page, they've tripled ## [R is for Royce's Rocco Rascles](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/r-is-for-royces-rocco-rascles.html) _2026-08-05 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ So, before the last post of June 4th's show-plunder, we ought to look at this rarity, although I will shoot it again for the Khaki Infantry page, as Dave Skrivener's image has been doing sterling work there, for over a decade, while I never dug my own sample out! How I spotted them, except on a table with other toy soldiery stuff! This is a shop-stock box, possibly the only surviving ## [M is for Medieval Metal Men](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/m-is-for-medieval-metal-men.html) _2026-08-04 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ So to the other half of 'antiquity', the newer half, although where you place the line is anybody's guess, hidden as it is, in the murk of the Dark Ages . . . is it Arthur and the end of Empire, the rise of the Carolingians, or the fall of the Carolingians, or likewise the Byzantines, or the fall of state fortresses, and rise of private castles? War gamers place it later, with the ## [A is for Ancient Archaic Antagonists of Antiquity!](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-is-for-ancient-archaic-antagonists-of.html) _2026-08-03 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ Into the final furlong as far as the 2026 Plastic Warrior Toy Soldier Show plunder and loot is concerned, and I've split this lot into ancient and medieval posts, with the older soldiers first! So, we'll go back 3000-odd years, to the siege of Troy, a probably real event, heavily fictionalised, the facts lost to national and region mythology, and the demented whitterings of priests, or bards ## [The bloodsoaked true story of Caracalla and Geta](https://scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/the-bloodsoaked-true-story-of-caracalla-and-geta) _2026-08-02 · Scandalous History · Scandalous History_ Gladiator II turned Caracalla and Geta into cartoonish villains but the reality was far bloodier. The brothers were given an empire to share but turned it into their own personal battleground, before their lives ended in bloodshed, delusion and paranoia ## [F is for Farmers, Firefighters, Fishermen, Footballers and Other Functionaries](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/07/f-is-for-farmers-firefighters-fishermen.html) _2026-07-30 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ Right, now I've really got to photograph the other two bags, as it won't be over 'till they sing, and Rack Toy Month is fast approaching, with plenty to amuse and entertain, or at least add to the whole! In the meantime, the last of the previous photo-sesh' is the civilian stuff, and there some interesting stuff in there, so let's 'ave a luke! Sportsmen, with a large Charbens footballer, ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7u0zb5q3shrW) _2026-07-30 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [B is for Bags, Barrels, Bases, Bits & Bobs, Boxes, Bullets, a Barrow and a Bell!](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/07/b-is-for-bags-barrels-bases-bits-bobs.html) _2026-07-28 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ Among other things! It's the bits and bobs, the accessories, the spares, the detritus, the orphaned elements of other toys or models, and peripheral/consumable stuff, which, due to the drawer of bits on show's-eve, is greater than some years, and full of things I can get a couple of lines of blurb out of! Firstly; the accessories! These were new in Replicants inventory, and are obviously ## [A is for Ancient, African & Agricultural Animals](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-is-for-ancient-african-agricultural.html) _2026-07-24 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ I know, but I started with the alliterative titles, and I'm determined to get to the end of the plunder-posts with the same trope, so some are going to be a bit weak! Also, I've been a bit blearh, for the fortnight since the show, the heat, work, and a persistent cold, have left me a bit deflated, but I've sort of kept posting . . . if not regularly, becasue I'm rather just going through the ## [W is for Wild West Warriors - 2 of 2](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/07/w-is-for-wild-west-warriors-2-of-2.html) _2026-07-20 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ I shot these first, of the two post's worth, but they ended-up as the second post for reasons I've already forgotten, half the bagged/carded stuff, and a bit of detritus at the end, but all good stuff! Sorpresa . . . Italian for Sobre, Spanish for surprise! And Natale Luigi (NL) is a new one for the Tag list. I remember ten lira being about half-a-p in 1977, so it's not going to break ## [B is for Bearskins, Busbies and Bright, Shiny Helmets!](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/07/b-is-for-bearskins-busbies-and-bright.html) _2026-07-20 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ It's the ceremonials! And the emphasis being very much on the British Guards, but there are others, and among them a couple of really interesting figures, and one diminutive chap who is jostling for best of show! Marx recycling-fodder, better than cannon-fodder, they may still become something useful! But shown for completeness, I used to just show the highlights of donations or show plunder ## [Everything Gladiator got wrong about Commodus](https://scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/everything-gladiator-got-wrong-about-commodus) _2026-07-19 · Scandalous History · Scandalous History_ Ridley Scott's Gladiator gave us a version of Commodus obsessed with the arena and his own sister, but the life of the real emperor was much more unhinged ## [W is for Wild West Warriors - 1 of 2](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/07/w-is-for-wild-west-warriors-1-of-2.html) _2026-07-19 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ I split the Wild West relatively randomly into two plunder posts, these are the ones shot with the same background, it was a pretty basic dividing system! But lots of useful bits here, and some new horses which are intriguing me! The two bags of Hong Kong 'hollow horses' and a few of their associated foot figures, one from Trevor, the other from the vendor of the TNT submarine. Neither of ## [H is for Hetman, Hussars and Historiques!](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/07/h-is-for-hetman-hussars-and-historiques.html) _2026-07-18 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ It's the subsection I call Historical; from the post-Medieval through to pre-kharki, sometimes including ceremonial, but there were enough in the plunder to split them into two posts, so we're covering about 4/500-years here, except with the Figurines Historiques, where over a millennium is covered! We had a decent shot of them in the sorting post, but I wanted to do better by them with a ## [C is for Cinematic Celebrities and Cartoon Characters](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/07/c-is-for-cinematic-celebrities-and.html) _2026-07-17 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ All the other sci-fi/fantasy stuff tends toward the realm of TV and the moving pictures, to which cartoon characters and fairy tales add a few other harder to classify items, and that material is the direction of this post! A lovely 54mm Barbie, who could have gone in the previous post, as an obvious astronaut, but she's better employed kicking this post off. Credited to Mattel Canada, she ## [S is for Ships at Sea, and Sky Surfers](https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2026/07/s-is-for-ships-at-sea-and-sky-surfers.html) _2026-07-16 · Hugh Walter · Small Scale World_ The other half of the vehicular element of this year's Plastic Warrior plunder; only a few, it is - after all - a figure show, but I took loads of photographs of one of them, because it was such a cool find! TN Thomas Toys boxed jem: Submarine Base with Rocket Battery! I was very pleased to find this, I think it was my first purchase of the day, along with the smaller ## [The debutante who declared war on Britain](https://scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/the-debutante-who-declared-war-on-britain-constance-markievicz) _2026-06-27 · Scandalous History · Scandalous History_ A countess by marriage and a rebel by choice, Constance Markievicz shocked polite society by becoming one of Ireland's fiercest revolutionaries - and Britain's first female MP ## [Know before it drops (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vKQBEzQ2pOyj) _2026-06-27 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a show, artist, genre or rocket and get notified before release ## [Ireland's problematic 'Joan of Arc'](https://scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/irelands-problematic-joan-of-arc-maud-gonne) _2026-06-04 · Scandalous History · Scandalous History_ Maud Gonne devoted her life to Irish nationalism but that was only one part of a story filled with obsession and scandal. Think diva behaviour, political violence, and graveyard sex. ## [Six days in April: Ireland's Easter Rising](https://scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/six-days-in-april-irelands-easter-rising-1916) _2026-05-09 · Scandalous History · Scandalous History_ Ireland's Easter Rising of 1916 was seemingly doomed from the start. But what began as a failed insurrection became the spark that reshaped modern Ireland ## [The financial fraud which fooled Isaac Newton](https://scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/the-financial-fraud-which-fooled-isaac-newton-south-sea-company) _2026-04-14 · Scandalous History · Scandalous History_ Fortunes, hype, and outright delusion collide in the story of the South Sea Company, where promises of limitless wealth drew in investors from every corner of society. But the gap between appearance and truth became impossible to ignore, ending in a dramatic collapse that revealed just how easily ambition and speculation can tip into chaos ## [The slave who became America's first drag queen](https://scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/the-slave-who-became-americas-first-drag-queen) _2026-03-27 · Scandalous History · Scandalous History_ Long before drag hit the mainstream, a formerly enslaved man in Washington D.C. started a movement which would echo through generations, despite being relentlessly targeted by the authorities ## [Hell hath no fury like a Merovingian queen](https://scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-merovingian-queen-brunhild-fredegund) _2026-03-08 · Scandalous History · Scandalous History_ In the violent world of the Franks, Brunhild and Fredegund turned a dynastic rivalry into one of the bloodiest personal feuds in European history ## [Selling sin in the Wild West](https://scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/selling-sin-in-the-wild-west) _2026-02-22 · Scandalous History · Scandalous History_ Pearl de Vere and Eleanor Dumont monetised naughtiness and made a fortune in the American West but life was precarious and fate was fickle during the dying days of the gold rush ## [Bandit queens of the Wild West](https://scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/bandit-queens-of-the-wild-west) _2026-02-05 · Scandalous History · Scandalous History_ Three women in the Wild West broke the rules assigned to them. Belle Starr, Pearl Hart and Laura Bullion carved out lives marked by crime and notoriety, stagecoach heists and courtroom drama. ## [Thanksgiving turkey Survivorship Bias](https://lethalintelligence.substack.com/p/thanksgiving-turkey-survivorship) _2025-07-24 · lethalintelligence.ai · lethalintelligence.ai_ Life has always been great for the turkey, Human Intelligence always provided safety and comfort. ## ["In a decade you won't be vibe coding, you will be thought coding"](https://lethalintelligence.substack.com/p/in-a-decade-you-wont-be-vibe-coding) _2025-05-09 · LethalAI editor · lethalintelligence.ai_ Replying to: ## [Just kids playing with bombs](https://lethalintelligence.substack.com/p/just-kids-playing-with-bombs) _2025-05-09 · lethalintelligence.ai · lethalintelligence.ai_ What do you do with kids playing with intelligence bombs? ## [Your dentist asks your P(doom).](https://lethalintelligence.substack.com/p/your-dentist-asks-your-pdoom) _2025-05-09 · LethalAI editor · lethalintelligence.ai_ Your dentist asks your P(doom). ## [GPT5, GPT6........](https://lethalintelligence.substack.com/p/gpt5-gpt6) _2025-05-09 · lethalintelligence.ai · lethalintelligence.ai_ The same way upcoming Ai is an existential threat for humans, GPT N is at risk of going extinct by GPT N+1 ## [AI sycophantic](https://lethalintelligence.substack.com/p/ai-sycophantic) _2025-05-07 · lethalintelligence.ai · lethalintelligence.ai_ Let flattery and manipulation be convincing ffs ## [Everything ChatGPT4o says sounds correct to me](https://lethalintelligence.substack.com/p/everything-chatgpt4o-says-sounds) _2025-05-07 · lethalintelligence.ai · lethalintelligence.ai_ Everything ChatGPT4o says sounds correct to me ## [AGI flight has taken off.](https://lethalintelligence.substack.com/p/agi-flight-has-taken-off) _2025-05-07 · LethalAI editor · lethalintelligence.ai_ Everyone onboard, the AGI flight has taken off. ## [AGI is taking a Tyrannosaurus Rex horse-riding!](https://lethalintelligence.substack.com/p/agi-is-taking-a-tyrannosaurus-rex) _2025-05-05 · lethalintelligence.ai · lethalintelligence.ai_ Jurassic Park analogy - hear me out: ## [AI x-risk is noy my fault](https://lethalintelligence.substack.com/p/ai-x-risk-is-noy-my-fault) _2025-05-05 · lethalintelligence.ai · lethalintelligence.ai_ AI existential risk is NOT someone else’s problem! ## [I'm tired of the algorithm.](https://ohwaitiforgot.substack.com/p/im-tired-of-the-algorithm) _2025-01-30 · Lindsay Attaway · Oh wait...I forgot._ I've been thinking a lot about how our lives are increasingly governed by algorithms made by billion-dollar corporations. ## [It's gumbo weather!](https://ohwaitiforgot.substack.com/p/its-gumbo-weather) _2025-01-22 · Lindsay Attaway · Oh wait...I forgot._ And I'm desperately trying to distract myself while I feel like America is crumbling around me, so in the true random nature of the Wild West Edition, I'm here with gumbo. ## [I've deleted my Meta, Twitter, and TikTok accounts. Now what?](https://ohwaitiforgot.substack.com/p/ive-deleted-my-meta-twitter-and-tiktok-accounts-now-what) _2025-01-20 · Lindsay Attaway · Oh wait...I forgot._ Yep, they're gone.