Then in a mixed lot a while ago I got a
paler yellow tiger with a long split down the side and no mechanism, but it
gave me hope that it must have been issued here too?
And at Sandown the other day, I picked this
up! It's been totally de-labeled so no clues in what I believe is otherwise the
original mailing carton, it's missing three 'bullets' and their accompanying
section of runner but is otherwise complete.
You get an alligator/crocodile (they don't
explain the difference and indeed, conflate the two on the instruction sheet)
and hippopotamus rhinoceros - well . . .
it looks more like a hippo'! Alongside which are the three 'big' cats;
lion, tiger and leopard.
The hunter (can you imagine what the Daily
Wail would have to say if this turned-up in a cereal pack today!) has a
standard press-in, click-lock, spring-loaded firing mechanism and I suspect was
the only piece pre-assembled upon delivery by the Postie?
Each animal (if you hadn't already worked
it out, but the blurb has to come from somewhere!) has a rubber-band powered
'mouse-trap' trigger which when hit by a bullet throws the unfortunate 'trophy'
up in the air!
Interestingly, it looks as if the
crocogator-allidile was considered for posing facing the other way, with a
vestigial trigger-hole on the other side of its face?
And the Canadian set I saw back in 2013 had
a different colour-set, but not opposite to mine, so they must have been on one
tool, run in both colours, taken off the runners and paired-up before despatch,
however, whatever the mix, each animal seems meant to have the opposite colour
trigger.
The set comes with instructions that double
as a play-mat and are half the size of a duvet cover (dimmer members of the
PSTSM should be advised that's an attempt at humour, not an accurate
description), which having been folded to the size of a mint-in-pack paper serviette;
has instructions to the end-user suggesting they iron it out flat again!
I don't know which cereal brand Kellogg's attached this to, but good-old
Cornflakes are the obvious first
base? And the Canadian set had a more substantial mailing-box of
double-skinned, corrugated-card; rather than the heavy manila of mine. Also it
(the Canadian one) seems to have been mailed from/by a Rattle O.K. (or D.K.?)
on behalf of Kellogg's Premiums,
London, Ontario (now closed).
Scoring is as random as the Lone Star shooting-set we've seen recently!
4 comments:
I remember this being offered in the UK in the 1960s.
Sorry, don't remember the cereal name though -would be surprised if it was cornflakes, more likely one of the more sugary child-oriented cereals.
Cheers Andy - I was tempted to try a humorous 'Are you cynically suggesting...' type reply, but on reflection, you've got a point, Corn Flakes didn't carry the same level of offers as some of the other brands . . . those cynical fussa-russa...!
H
Weetabix I have the box they came in
Cheers Anon, as you can see I have the box, but very ripped, and not in the pumped-iron sort of way!
H
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