Should we be worried about these comments?

I posted my latest blog entry on 12th July and on the night of 27th July somebody posted the following Anonymous Comment:

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I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar comment left on their blog?

I occasionally get spam comments directing the reader to various commercial sites, when this happens I send a Report Abuse notification to Google, mark the comment as Spam and Delete the Comment from the post.

In this instance there is no profile attached to Anonymous so I have no URL to report the abuse to Google and have simply deleted it.

I believe the Comment to have been generated by some sort of bot, or perhaps a malicious keyboard warrior, I sincerely hope that is the case and not a cry for help from some poor disturbed soul.  Either way I have taken what action I can to deal with it and am not disturbed by it, but wanted to flag this for the benefit of other bloggers who may be similarly targeted.  I will shortly take this post down as I don't believe in giving these people the oxygen.

New Replicants French Resistance figures at the Plastic Warrior Show 2026

The Plastic Warrior Show was held on the 4th July this year, there's no significance in this and it wasn't planned, simply the only date the venue could offer.  

It has become something of a tradition now that Peter Cole uses the event to showcase the new products he has created for his firm Replicants. This is very appropriate because Peter was among the first of us enthusiasts who met at Peter Evans place in North London, talking toy soldiers and unsuspectingly creating the lifelong bond of friendship which became the very heart of Plastic Warrior.

Peter's offering this year is a bit of a curve ball, a set of French Resistance fighters which could equally be used for the Spanish Civil War, or pretty much any urban conflict of the last century.

First up a radio operator with clandestine wireless set, next to him a man throwing a Molotov cocktail, a woman wearing headscarf and bandolier firing a rifle (although to my eye it looks a lot like a flintlock musket) and a man kneeling firing a Sten gun (Shepherd Turpin ENfield), the eponymous automatic weapon favoured by Resistance Groups across occupied Europe.

Showing the underside of the woman firing rifle, Peter is now moulding the Replicants logo into all these figures.  A Saboteur about to press the detonator and blow something up is watched by a woman, clutching her baby while drawing a revolver from inside her coat!  Originality of pose like this is something we haven't seen in plastic before but have come to expect from Peter.

And finally two crawling figures, a man and woman, who were previously released many years ago as rock climbers (the woman has a rope coiled around her) but have now had plug in rifles attached  to them.  At one time they were also sold mounted on pins to be worn as broaches, the Replicants workshop is situated in the basement of an artisan jeweller shop and the broaches were sold through the retail outlet above it.

The kneeling radioman was also a previous release making his debut at the 2025 PW Show as an individual figure, being an homage to Roy Selwyn-Smith who had been a signalman in the Merchant Navy during the war, I didn't manage to pick one up last year so I'm glad to see him included in this year's lineup.