Pop-up and Flop Figures
Trumptonalia.
"Push Puppets" made by "OK Toys" of Hong Kong in 1966.

"Pop-up and flop" is simply what I call them,in the absence of any official alternative supplied by the manufacturer.
But the most common term for these sorts of things seems to be "Push Puppets"

But at least my version is a bit more descriptive I suppose.

The outer shell of the base is static.But the puppet actually stands on an inner base that protrudes out the bottom.
And this contains a spring that's attached to the head,arms and torso by a series of strings.
So that when you press down on it,the spring is compressed,the strings slacken and the whole thing flops down above the legs.
Metal spring,otherwise plastic.And approximately 4.5" tall.

Not the most robust things in small hands.
And yet there's a surprisingly large number of intact survivors still in circulation.
So they clearly sold in large enough numbers to more than offset the casualty rate.
Although they can't have done great business simply because they weren't followed up with any Trumpton versions. 

Anyhow,here's the list of characters ( all from Camberwick ),with their manufacturer reference numbers :-

Windy - No. 3112  ...  Dr.Mopp - No. 3113  ...  Captain Snort - No. 3116  ...  and P.C.McGarry - No. 3117     cont ...
It now seems almost certain that there aren't any others.

So if numbers 3114 and 3115 do actually exist then they're not related to Camberwick.
And the same goes for 3118 and beyond.
But I'd be very happy to be proved wrong.

One interesting anomaly about the ones that we did get though is that both Windy and Dr.Mopp were each available in 3 different colour versions.
The same red,blue and yellow colours each time for the 3 main parts ie. hat ... torso ... and legs & base.
But simply swapped around.So,for instance,each came with either a red,blue or yellow hat and so on.

All were definitely sold like that -nothing to do with after sales paint jobs by enthusiast owners.
And just one of the surprisingly frequent occasions when toy manufacturers threw in random colour variations without actually alerting anyone.Which kind of begs the question why they bothered.But still a nice touch though.

But that was only done for Windy and Dr.Mopp..
I've never seen any similar colour mash-ups for either PC McGarry or Captn.Snort.
Which isn't to say for definite that there aren't any.But I think it's very unlikely,simply because it's much harder to take liberties with uniforms.
Although I did see one version of McGarry that had a noticeably lighter shade of blue for both his hat and tunic.

And one other little twist regarding everyones favourite bobby is that he carries a later,1967,copyright mark as opposed to 1966.
So it's maybe no coincidence that he also has the latest of the 4 manufacturer reference numbers.

But,all theories aside,a very engaging little set.