Air Charter from the good people at
Waddington's, it looks like fun, move and collect while paying fees and stuff,
the mechanism probably similar to the various railway-building games of the
same era, but with less adherence to a single track-way, and a final aim rather
than a final destination!
They look a nit like the box-lid's DC3 from
the side, but from a distance; more like a Spitfire or that little French thing
which did so little in 1940 . . . the Dowhatucan?! No offence Bertheux!
They will go in the tub with all the other carrier
model-kit/micro/Christmas cracker-toy aeroplanes. Yellow has picked-up some
purple 'stuff' and is sneaking away from formation, to rack-up some points!
This lot was saved for the spares box. I
sometimes feel a bit of a heel dumping the bulk of these, but rationalise it
thus;
- I collect toys not games
- There were thousands of these in the 1950's, 60's and 70's
- Many survive
- There are lots of games collectors - it's a far bigger branch of the wider hobby
- They were mostly formulaic
- Once you've played them once or twice you're done with them
- I keep the really rare ones
- I keep the 'better' ones
- If I kept all of them I'd drown in them
- The more 'stuff' we process to 'recyc' the slightly better chance the planet has
The little pyramids may make nice
castellation-finals for an Airfix
Foreign Legion fort conversion or something (caltrops!) I ever get back to a
bit of modelling; the dice go in the dice bag and the clock-hands with their
little 'popper' clips might prove useful one day?
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