Nine poses, flatter than semi-flat, but
thick-enough to have some substantiality about them, they come in two colours,
blue and yellow, why no - obvious - red is anyone's guess! Following the
pattern of other premium flats, the mounted figures are a different scale to
the foot figures . . . or further away!
Hard polystyrene plastic on the left of
both colour-pairs, softer polyethylene on the right, the soft plastic ones are
heavily marked HONG KONG along the edge of the base with an engineer's stamp,
as they were all supplied by the same advertisers I think this was probably an
economic thing, although there are subtle differences between the two sets of
mouldings.
I only have soft-plastic catapults, whether
this is due to the hard plastic ones all breaking over the years, or a sign of
an addition I'm not sure, I think the ad's always mentioned them? Even in soft
plastic they have lost their 'springiness' and settled to the low position so
you can't effectively flick them any-more!
Mr Hur and his competitors! You can see
clearly here how the soft plastic set are much heavier sculpts that the older
styrene ones.
The effect of massed formations is - I
suspect - one of the reasons we stay interested in these ephemeral playthings
and keep collecting them?
The flyer, I'm not sure where this one came
from, but I do have the originals somewhere, Peter Evans gave me one years ago
and I've had a couple out of cheap comic buys at car-boot sales, so I will
replace this shot with a high-res scan, or add the better image to the A-Z
entry.
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