Some blog legends are legends before they've begun.
This is such a one. A new legend of a toy so obscure that neither Scoop, Bill nor I had ever physically seen it until this year.
Like all legends it began with a whisper, this whisper coming from Bill last November: "Hey Scoop, there's a toy just appeared on ebay."
I myself came midway into this unfolding legend. A whole two months had passed before the whisper reached Moonbase in January when my good friend Ferryman was staying at the time and happened to mention "Woodsy, did you see that plastic Anderson knockoff from Greece?"
The next news from Bill was astonishing. Scoop had won it!
"Flippin 'eck!" I said. "Send me a link to the item"
On seeing the link it became clear that the toy wasn't Greek after all. the seller was in Nicosia in Cyprus. The plastic toy itself was from Taiwan, incomplete but quite beautiful.
The next stage of the legend involved Kevin D, Scoop, Bill and myself. Scoop will take up the story from here.......
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