The item itself is in storage, while the
photographs I do have were taken back in 2010 or something for an eMail
exchange and somewhat fail to show the vehicles off to their best! Still; after
yesterdays post you probably won't mind a short one with few details!
The box! Laurie seem to be a wholly owned brand-mark of Lucky, but which I mean that while Clifford or Fairylite
were independent import firms ('jobbers') with the products from other sources
under their brand (I have somewhere an image of a polyethylene boat 'made in
England' [possibly a Rafael Lipkin/Pippin
piece] with a Clifford card), Laurie only appear with a Lucky Toy in the box!
Despite water damage the box was otherwise
'unused', and the contents were still in two poly-bags, the failing of me to
shoot a decent shot of the vehicles will be the excuse to return to it when
it's released from its prison, but you can just see the figures stuffed lengthwise
into the caravan for storage!
The interior is reasonable for a cheap toy,
but note the flash stretching up from and down to the holes in the floor, these
are a necessary part of the moulding process (undercuts and stuff) with such a
complicated single-shot tool, but they provide a weakness for pressurised hot-polymer to
squeeze out of.
I don't imagine you can get a much leerier
colour scheme than candy-pink and apple-green, but maybe bright yellow and
sky-blue could beat it, however the icing on this 'pop-art' cake - has to be
the tangerine-orange car!
Lucky mark on the Laurie
caravan mirrors the car and an interesting feature is the retracting tow-bar,
making it harder to damage in play.
Only a box-ticker, and box ticked; Lucky - for Laurie!
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