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After culls and purges vicious enough to shame Uncle Joe Stalin, 5 battered & wobbly survivors are left (just about) standing...
Toys/Manky Toys Category
Don’t Grimace, Be Happy Meal
Back in the early years of this decade, when fustar.info was but a faint twinkle in the deepest recesses of mine eye, I was a reasonably...
None for Anyone in the Audience: The 2008 Manky Toy Show - Live!
9.00 - A pair of cheap, stained curtains open. A thin figure bounds jovially through them and onto the stage. A glamorous, heavily...
Manky Toy Show is Go!
Friday, 5th December, 2008 @ 9.00 p.m.
Pencil that date and that time into your diaries. If you don't have a diary then sprint madly...
The Manky Toy Show 2008: The Countdown Begins…
Ask square and un-hip members of society what the highlight of their 2007 Christmas season was and they'll most likely answer: the...
Manky Toy Monday: Rapid, Fighter, Apex
I've mentioned (somewhere) before that I, like most children, was more than happy to mix, match and mash together toy worlds and universes...
Makes People Disappear
There's something vaguely touching and poignant about mysteries that have (due to the whims of fashion) passed out of mainstream popular...
Spit on me Scarlett
As stated in my last post, we recently returned from an extended-family holiday in Connemara where, for much of the time, the wind...
Manky Toy Monday: Action Dan the Fireman
Firemen are, as we all know, potent, smoke-stained icons of manliness. Anyone who's ever called them out to tackle a chip pan fire,...
Manky Toy Monday: Little Animal Telephone
Though this vale of tears we call the world is plentifully stocked with bleak places and spaces - Abu Ghraib, Chernobyl, Auschwitz-Birkenau...
The Award for Most Tentacles Goes to…
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Another year, another head-butt in the nuts. This blog's sixth and seventh Irish Blog Awards nominations went the same sorry way...
The Big Manky Blog Awarding Night Out
On February 27th (yes, this very day) last year I 'penned' a Manky Toy post about the delectable Maureen - a doll beautifully described...
Manky Toy Monday: Phantasms and Maniac Bellows
A Manky Toy double-bill for you on this glorious Monday (glorious because the sun has his/her hat on and I'm off work). Through no...
V: Friendship is Universal
When I was but a small, nervous, big-eyed child (in the late 70s/early 80s) two parental fears dominated all others. One concerned...
Manky Toy Monday: Composite Happy
Sings *Every day is like Monday, Every day's a manky fun day"
Yes indeedy, Tuesday is the new Monday - or at least it is for the purposes...
