In Walgreen's
as of last Tuesday; should you be fortunate enough to live where Walgreen operates! An excellent gift
idea for younger relatives, and as they get older they can always repaint!
Brian also sent these a while ago as part
of a mixed lot he was trying to ID, and while I couldn't help, I did suggest
Paint Your Own sets, as I had just seen the sets I would later purchase for
those posts the other week.
I took them (the pictures) home and had a
better look (I struggle with images in Hotmail these days, partly down to
limited time on the internet, partly down to the fact they make it as hard as
possible to get them to show big enough!), spotted the 'CHINA' (on the rear of
the left hand figure) and changed my mind, suggesting they were from a medieval
play-set.
But now doing a bit of digging into these
Paint Your Own sets (there's a fair few out there), I've changed my mind back
to the possibility they are actually from a Paint Your Own set, possibly
targeted at castles, museums and historical sites.
The Crescent
'Berserker' clearly booked his annual leave for the pre-Christmas period so
there's an approximately 54mm ACW Union flag-bearer as a scaler.
Clearly medieval or early 'age of
exploration', could they be from a Pilgrim Father's set, or touristy thingy
of/from a US source, do you have them? How many poses were there in a set or
what was the set called? Were there Local Indians in the set for the pioneers
to trade with?
I found this (Kandy Toys) looking for something else the
other day, and while they are more dinosaurs, it's further
evidence that Paint Your Own sets are looking to be a rich vein for toy and model
figures, animals and such like, have you found any useful ones? I've also seen Paint Your Own plaster figurines.
The three medieval figures came in small bagged sets that were sold in the US chain store Target in the late 1990s or early 2000s - it was a while ago. Along with this set, which included "royal" figures, there were also bags of grey and black knights in a vinyl-like plastic - they were clearly modeled on the old Timpo knights, but given different heads and weapons.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dan, really useful stuff. Were they given any 'paint your own' trope, or just sold as a bag of 'rack toys'?
ReplyDeleteCertainly helps place them in the archive, cheers and wishes for a Merry Christmas to you and yours!
H
Hugh,
ReplyDeleteMy brain just kicked in, and I remembered that these figures were featured in a page at Thor Sheil's Army Men Homepage. You can see the whole line there. The "Royal Family" make a nice addition to a castle set-up. I wish there had been more of the servants! The knights went well with the then-ubiquitous Timpo clones, though the rubbery plastic made for a lot of time doing the hot-water treatment.
Here is the link:
http://www.thortrains.net/armymen/medfigs1.html
Have a Wonderful Christmas!
Dan
Oooooh! That's a nice little set isn't it! Thanks for that and the link Dan. I have Thor in the link list ('Army men') but it's been a while since I checked it out for new stuff, I'm having connectivity issues today, but next chance I get... surfing!
ReplyDeleteH
I forgot to link the second page at Thor's Army Men Page showing the accessories that came with these figures. The catapult was really nice. Here is the link:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thortrains.net/armymen/medfigs2.html
Dan
I found them . . . and nice separate weapons and a dragon! We like Dragons!
ReplyDeleteH
Thank you Dan. Sadly this holiday season Target has nothing of interest like these.
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