A is for Air Charter

Another board game, there's always one or two lurking in Picasa, although I think I got this only the other day, box knackered by the Sellotape (other sticky-backed plastics are available) the ladies in the charity shops put on them - usually over previous tape damage, making the getting off all the harder - means it's already mostly landfill or recycling.

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?