K is for Killing Three Birds with One Stone!

Still cruel and unnecessary!

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;

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* 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 - 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)