Brain Berke coming to the rescue again;
although he actually sent this some time ago as confirmation of the third
colour when I blogged his previous contribution back near the start of the
year.
He then sent this the other week and I'd
love to have a go, who remembers the Corgi
Pink Panther car which had the same
mechanism? Indeed - some diminutive Kinder toys also have a pull-through
powered kinetic-motor, while the Evel Knievel
toys were more popular than either of the aforementioned!
Also branded to FunTastic, it now looks as
though both the US FunTastic and the
UK Funtastic are the same company,
but it doesn't explain the logo differences, the Poundland exclusivity or where that will go now Poundland have been bought, but as we
will see with the die-casts in a day or two, it's all as clear as mud and of
little or no significance!
Rack Toy Month has room for smaller
novelties and these Christmas Cracker/Gum Ball types are another recent purchase
from the Swagman's Daughter and while
the charms to the right (hard polystyrene) will be of limited interest to most,
the figures on the left (soft polyethylene) should be of interest to any
war-gamers exploring WWII.
Especially anyone using the plethora of
Italian figure-set issues in the last ten or twelve years and the parallel AFV releases
to build Italian armies; as they are almost perfect for North African dispatch
riders - sculpted as if wearing shorts and with a leather side-flapped helmet
and at a pretty good 1:76; you'd be daft not to get a set while they are still
available.
A comparison with some of my existing
sample, the blue ethylene one is the same as the Swagman's one, but the two styrene ones are variations of the
recent acquisition - the brown one having a larger charm loop, the green one
slightly better (??!!) sculpting and [apparent] factory paint on a loop-less
helmet.
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