Useful items for sixth-scale environments (continuously updated)

I'm glad Deadpool and Ron Burgundy approve! Very nice. I usually have horrible luck with these.

The scale can be a bit off with the Mini Brands, and I hate that its impossible to guess the contents of each ball, but they’re good quality minis! We haven’t got the foodie ones in the U.K. yet, but I hope they give us some U.K. exclusive stuff like they have with the mini brands as I don’t think we have Sonic etc here.

The foodies ones scale better imho and they are in my local smyths so they are showing up in UK

Ooooh, really?! Damn, my local Smyths is really awkward to get to but I’ll need to wrangle a way of getting there now - it’s the only place I’ve been able to find MTM barbies in stores too!

Lynkhart wrote:Ooooh, really?! Damn, my local Smyths is really awkward to get to but I’ll need to wrangle a way of getting there now - it’s the only place I’ve been able to find MTM barbies in stores too!

Yeah, they seem to be the new Toys 'r' Us. Big stores with moderately good selection. The pink aisle usually has something useful it seems.

Some cool food items. Interesting tidbit— White Castle makes those mini burgers we call “sliders”. They’re disgustingly greasy, and after a long night at the bar/pub they usually make you throw up or crap your guts out — either way they’ll clean you out. Horrible, crappy food. The Subway stuff looks good, though.

Those are pretty cool Jaz! Thanks for sharing!

We started a thread about these a few years ago.
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t646-australian-grocery-chain-store-promotion

Would be nice to see it continue with new products and ideas.

I found another mini-tv slide viewer. Not easy to find, they seem a thing of the past.
This one shows slides of the "Halve Maan"  (Half Moon) Provincial recreational domain in Diest, Belgium.

That looks very nice.

I agree, very nice.

DarthJ wrote:I found another mini-tv slide viewer. Not easy to find, they seem a thing of the past.
This one shows slides of the "Halve Maan"  (Half Moon) Provincial recreational domain in Diest, Belgium.

I’m a little late picking up on this.  This is a very cool use of a retro trinket that was not intended for the 1/6 purpose, but there’s a tech advanced alternative – sold at Walmart or Amazon, as cheap as $14.97.  Made by Basic Fun! (who make all those World’s Smallest that we love).  A photo really doesn’t do it justice, as it plays several minutes of video clips with sound.  It even has a working remote control, with onscreen visible effects like a sound bar, etc.

They have 4 Mini TV Styles.  The first 2 styles work ok in 1/6 scale: “Ultra-Retro 50s-60s”,  “Retro 70s-80s”.  They may seem a bit small, but we forget how small the early tube color TVs were.  The third style  “Classic 90s-2000s” works fine as it’s a monitor that could be any size.  (The bases can be taken off).  But the fourth style “Millennial 2010s-now” is probably limited to 1/12 scale.  None of the remote controls are sized in 1/6 scale of course.

There are 8 themes for now:  Batman, Star Trek, Friends, Big Bang Theory, South Park, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers and Back to the Future, plus Jaws and Jurassic Park coming soon.  You can also get the raw technology in a DIY Kit, but it’s pricy, and looks a bit rough https://tinycircuits.com/products/tinytv-diy-kit .

Thank you for that contribution (and link), MBAM. I had almost forgotten just how valuable you can be when you wander outside the New Products section.

That's awesome! A real working "old time" TV with Star Trek stuff; I don't have a use for it, but it's pretty cool.

You need some furniture to put on those TVs.

2 low tables, 1 small cupboard.

A shelf with dictionaries.



Those are real dictionaries, Dutch to and from English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

The dictionaries are super cool.

Those are awesome! I have quite a few "classic" dictionaries (massive books that weigh a small ton), which I still use.

I don't think I posted this already. One of those metal pencil sharpeners depicting real usually antique objects.

Very nice, I believe I hav the same item in the Ammo Arms.

Ha, very neat!

I have the same pencil sharpener (in the event I decide to do a General Store). Neat little item, and the drawer opens (obviously).

I just got this cool lantern (and a bunch of other items that I'm yet to unpackage and use with a figure)

Nice find!

More pencil sharpeners.

And a few more, all in one purchase for a few dollars, ehhh Euro.

Cool. Does the handle on that coffee grinder move?

Stryker2011 wrote:Cool. Does the handle on that coffee grinder move?

what coffee grinder?

ukshaun wrote:

Stryker2011 wrote:Cool. Does the handle on that coffee grinder move?

what coffee grinder?

Look again, last photo. Probably my favorite piece among these. And I was thinking of Stryker's Westworld when I saw it.
Also like the lantern in m76's post, although I suspect it might actually be designed to be a sixth scale piece.