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Toy Fair Arrives At Birmingham's Nec Arena ... There are 650 tables at the event, which will be manned by some of the best dealers from the toy and model collecting worlds. You'll be able to buy some great collectables old and new, including Matchbox, Scalextric, soldiers, figures, Dinky, Corgi, Lledo, TV Related merchandise from shows such as Batman or Starsky and Hutch, Sci-Fi toys and memorabilia, Star Wars collectables, model railways, Action Man, Beanie Babies, dolls, teddy bears, Buses, boats, farm animals and tractors, McDonalds happy meal toys, planes, display cabinets, books, videos, Disneyrama, and more...

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties—that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sight ... nor with madness.
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure. The Atlantic is a Lethean stream, in our passage over which we have had an opportunity to forget the Old World and its institutions. If we do not succeed this time, there is perhaps one more chance for the race left before it arrives on the banks of the Styx; and that is in the Lethe of the Pacific, which is three times as wide.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)