What's this down the bottom of a tub
(currently being rained-on as I write! It's waterproof and sited temporarily);
looks interesting, let's get them out . . .
. . . oh, look . . . it's those Blue Box 30mm French Resistance Fighters you-know-who
(make-it-ups-man) stated - more than once - didn't exist, or only existed in
50mm (which they don't!).
Selling for the princely sum of 39¢ across the pond, and two-shillings & eleven pence over here
(.21p 'ish?), the backing card (and positioning of the product elements) is the
same for both sets, but the actual container is quite different.
The US-priced one (they [card/window] were available over
here too) being a pretty standard window-box, opening both ends, while the
UK-priced one is a plastic fold-up with the inner tray/backing-card slipped in.
I have quite a few of these, and when I get my teeth back into Blue Box we'll have a look at all of
them in grater detail.
As US pricing tended to be cheaper than the
UK in the '50's and 60's (often still is!) and as I don't think it was ever
quite two-dollars-to-the-pound (except maybe for a day or two in a crisis of
some sort), I'm guessing . . . assuming . . . presuming . . . the UK version is
the slightly later issue? Many-thanks to James Opie for the upper one and we
looked at the individual figures here with a follow-up here.
Sadly my grenade thrower is lost from my childhood set and the truck! I had forgotten the truck! Essentially a smaller, plastic, version of the Dinky truck.
ReplyDeleteBedford RL Ross, I did cover both it and the MK way back when, but will be revisiting them both at some point!
ReplyDeleteBoth Bundgie/Kemlow's and Hornby/Dinky with 'Dublo' did the RL (which soldiered-on in my day with some REMF-units!), so either could be the donor, but I think you're right in it being from Binns Road!
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ReplyDeleteI always like seeing 'Blue Box' posts.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone else remember the particularly strong smell of the Blue Box styrene? I never smelled the like on any other toy or model.
Gisby - I opened the tub and it came wafting out like chemical ambrosia!
ReplyDeleteTerranove - I accidentally deleted your comment and can't restore it? Sorry! Yes! - anachronisms are one of the features of 'true' rack-toys!
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