These turn-up in odd lots and rummage-trays
at toy fairs and toy soldier shows, they aren't that rare; none of this
mass-produced, polymer, infant-toy stuff is, but they are fun and they are in a
box of their own, so let's tick it!
Condor
Games licensed from Seven Towns (who are still around I seem to recall), and reading
the blurb on the box-lid, you just wouldn't get this to the shelves now, the
Daily Wail would blow a gasket, the Guardian would mutter darkly about 'long
term mental health damage' and the bairn's would want to know why there were no
knifes or semi-clad, busty-assassins included!
Goldrush - 45mm'ish (47mm in total with base) and polyethylene, that's it
really, four miners with trolleys, they predate the Atlantic version by a few years I think.
Seven
Towns did turn-up the other day licensing something
modern, or modern'ish* I think, yet they were licensing things in the early
1970's, and often involved with board games, but not always, so some kind of
intermediate 'rights' agent, between artists on the one hand and manufacturers/
publishers on the other I suspect; handling the intellectual property issues
between the relevant parties, but primarily on behalf of the originating author/toy-inventor,
whom they may be in the business of nurturing?
There's some interesting stuff on Seven Towns over at Soupie's Minifig's
Blog which points to that sort of senario;
* It was the 2002/3 Impact from Drummond Park
games, seen here at Small Scale World
a year or so ago. They (Seven Towns)
have also worked with Berwick Games (Mission Impossible) and the mighty [but
no more!] Parker (Vendetta).
Two similar sets for which I only have the
figures (the box and the four-colour figure image of the Goldrush are from the archive and were shot courtesy of John Begg ten
years ago) are The Blues and the Greys
and Sheriffs
and Outlaws, which were both shooting games in the same vein as the Lone Star set seen here recently, but with an added 'around the board' (actually a vac-formed piece) movement mechanism.
Both set's figures are around the 50mm-mark, but the
kneeling pose of the ACW guys means they are actually, easily 54mm compatible.
All are pretty crude figures and seem to share a - jobbing - sculptor? And I
think both sets have five-each of both colours?
Listing;
Condor
Range of games some using pistols to shoot
at the pieces.
Board Games
- Ambush - Sheriffs and Outlaws (one pose, 5-each, black and brown, gun-slinger, 50mm)
- Ambush - Sheriffs and Outlaws (one pose, 5-each, black and brown, gun-slinger, 50mm)
- Ambush - The Blues and the Greys (5-each, two poses, blue
and grey, kneeling ACW figures, 50mm)
- Goldrush (man and trolley 45mm, 4
colours, 45mm, licensed from Severn Towns)
- Supersell (16 figures, flats, 4 each of 4
colours, plus card flat and flat vehicles)
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