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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Plasty is for Ri-Toys is for Rado Industrial Co.

I think we looked at the first set back at the start of the Blog, but it may have been earlier - and only in black & white - in Plastic Warrior's stable-mate One Inch Warrior? Anyway, we'll look at it again with the juxtaposition of the donors own-branded set!

Boxed Farm Sets; Boxed Rack Toy; Boxed Toy; Britains Copies; Britains Farm; Britains Herald; Britains Shepherd; Farm Animals; Farm Set; Hong Kong; Hong Kong MIB; Hong Kong Piracy; Hong Kong Rack Toy; Made in Hong Kong; Mini-Bauernhof; NR 431-8452; Plastic Farmer; Plasty; Plasty (Germany); Plasty Farm Set; Plasty Germany; Rack Toys MIB; Rado Farm; Rado Industries; Ri-Toys; Ri-Toys Farm; Sheep and Lambs; Sheep Toys; Shepherd; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Farmer;
This is the Plasty set; a resting foal or pony, three sheep in two poses, ex-Britains farmer (reduced to around 40mm) and a goat, along with piracies of Merit's fencing in white plastic with rustic artwork of a generic European nature, the hanging-card being more Franco-Spanish, the inner-liner having the look of Northern Europe or the Low Countries.

Boxed Farm Sets; Boxed Rack Toy; Boxed Toy; Britains Copies; Britains Farm; Britains Herald; Britains Shepherd; Farm Animals; Farm Set; Hong Kong; Hong Kong MIB; Hong Kong Piracy; Hong Kong Rack Toy; Made in Hong Kong; Mini-Bauernhof; NR 431-8452; Plastic Farmer; Plasty; Plasty (Germany); Plasty Farm Set; Plasty Germany; Rack Toys MIB; Rado Farm; Rado Industries; Ri-Toys; Ri-Toys Farm; Sheep and Lambs; Sheep Toys; Shepherd; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Farmer;
The horse replaced by a cow in the Ri-Toys original, these (the cow and horse) are better examples than some, but only equal in finish and decoration to the wider-found Blue Box mini farm sets they are - basically - pretending to be. There's also a third pose of sheep; a ram, all three based on Britains sculpts, as are the cow and pony/foal.

This is one of those posts that reveals the wheels-within-wheels that is the toy industry, with everyone seeking a slice of a small, finite pie which peters out earlier and earlier with each generation, they will happily get into bed with each-other for a shekel . . . as Airfix probably already owned Plasty by the time the upper set hit stores (the two sets aping the earlier sets by Blue Box, as supplied to Marx), yet they (Airfix) had their own small-scale farm set which Plasty could have used? With or without paint!

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