El Chavo Del Ocho Set Chaves Microplakit Series

Few sitcoms have travelled as far as El Chavo del Ocho — a Mexican comedy from the early seventies that ran across Latin America for decades and that several generations in Brazil grew up watching as Chaves. Its entire world is one shabby tenement courtyard and the people who bicker in it. Here the cast turns up in the stylised micro-kit format: simplified, chunky, deliberately toy-like proportions rather than realistic sculpture, so each character is recognisable from silhouette alone. It comes as a multi-part set of eleven files. For anyone raised on the show it is a shelf of familiar faces at a size that will not take over a room, and it makes an unusually personal gift — this is a programme people hold real nostalgia for, and a printed set of the vecindad regulars tends to land better than licensed merchandise ever does.