Ha! Leaving you with an ear-worm for the next hour or so (don't feel bad; I'm stuck with it too and I've got to write the rest of this blurb!) and - as we saw him in the previous post - returning to the chap walking-along (and his mate; the 'chap walking-along with clipboard'!), another of the easier 'sections' of Lucky Toy's output. And that's fifteen spelling mistakes in the first paragraph - bloody song! [Are you actually singing 'Walking' in your head too . . .it's 'Running' in the original - how weird is auto-suggestion?]
I call this the lozenge-based guy, can't
think why! Apart from the little one who turned-up a year or so ago (these
articles were started in 2012!) they are to a standard size, toward the taller
end of Lucky's line-up and
non-clipboard guy bears a resemblance to a Matchbox
figure, but is in fact different.
Why they've got this shape of base is
anyone's guess, why only these two poses got it - likewise! There are five sub-variants,
and like the ones we've already looked at; those differences will be down - in
part - to sub-contracts, however once you have stocks of each, they will tend
to end-up in various boxes and it would take a massive collection of plastic
toy vehicles (which - 'mint' - are fetching some pretty hefty prices these
days) to start establishing patterns (something I'm sure Mr. Sell will be able
to accomplish by closing his eyes and thinking inventing for
half-a-second).
The 'standard' Lucky base is probably the one at the top, in the middle is the
1112 code again which may - as I suggested the other day (yesterday? I'm losing
track here) - be for a specific client or order fulfillment? While a third
shows signs of the eleven-twelve being removed from the mould-tool again -
bottom graphic.
There is one with a key-hole in the base,
which would have been for a retaining pin shot-through the card-liner and
turned to hold the figure down, Star Toys
used a simpler arrangement with a straight-through popper (as did others) but Zee/Zylmex used a very similar retaining
'key' for their die-cast tanks and other toys. Other figures with the same
marking have a slight scar where the hole has subsequently been filled-in again
- after the fulfilment of an order or contract?.
Another line-up with the sub-sized 'newie'
to the left. A very useful couple of figures who could be employed as delivery
drivers or warehouse banksmen with the various vans and lorries the various
brands using Lucky's products issued,
or as a milkman, or even as police officers or medics.
Lozenge-based Guys
452 - Walking with
clip-board (similar to Corgi figure)
453 - Walking no
clip-board (similar to Corgi figure)
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