I have the time and the props, so here is the first in an occasional series of inconsequential events occurring in the Hardship Toy Shop!!

For those of you unfamiliar with Hardship, it’s a small town in Vermont populated by your average small-town weirdos, some of whom are witches. Magic is real, and so is time travel and teleportation, though none of these are really relevant to the Toy Shop Adventures.

All of these dolls are customized 1:6 scale action figures, about 12″ (30 cm) tall or less. Rosie, who’s trying to get her fortune told, is a recent Mattel Barbie Looks head on an MGA Rainbow High Vanessa Tempo body. Bailey, the clerk, is a Medicom Bambi that I redressed. Farrier, who is looking at a book, is a Big Chief Tenth Doctor that I redressed and repainted the hair on. The Cactus Kid, petting the stuffed sheep, is a Mattel Kelly Club head on an Obitsu 11cm knockoff body. Pammy, holding the dogbot upside down, is a Medicom Pampy head (from the same set as Bailey) spliced with Obitsu 22cm parts for more articulation. She is Bailey’s younger sister.

The set pieces are a little bit of this and that, with a lot of World’s Smallest/World’s Tiniest, as well as a significant amount of gachapon (miniatures from Japanese vending machines). Zoltar is a cheap miniature for sale from Running Press. He lights up and talks (in a fake Russian accent) with the help of 2 AAA batteries. To my knowledge, he does not actually say anything about his butt. 😉