No pictures of the board or box, I've never
encountered one, let alone acquired a copy (there are a couple of links at the
end of this article), but the figures I have 'sammler'ed' over the
years!
Top row is a complete set of early figures,
or; playing pieces! There are only the seven - to my knowledge, and while each
is coloured (for six players?) the sports car is not so clear, and it may be
that less players (maybe four) had to negotiate the board, trying each of the
seven sports?
Middle-row is a later set, which - although
not clear under flash-photography - have brighter coloured bases and other
slight variations (footballer's socks, shade of brown paint &etc), while
the bottom row are more factory chuck-outs which appeared, undecorated in the
1990's, but were used in later versions of the game I believe?
You're thinking "Why doesn't he know
the game's mechanism if he's posting links?", well, the links are in
another article on the dongles here at home (no Internet) and I won't have time
to check them when I load the article at the Library, or I will check them (and
copy/paste) but I won't have time to re-edit this to make me look smarter than
I am! But the links should answer the question marks!
Having seen the yellow plastic bases of the
gold figures the other day, it's interesting to note that while the skier and
diver have pre-coloured plastic bases (white and blue respectively), the other four have red, orange, yellow and green-painted bases - on white plastic,
pointing to the gold-finished figures being manufactured - as a batch - later than
these.
The sports car is a 'generic' . . . Mercedes!
And there is no marking to reveal its origins, which probably means a few have
been discarded by figure-collectors over the years as junk stuff for the 50p
rummage tray!
And/Indeed - scarily - it looks a lot like
the Disney/Transformers vehicles
currently coming out of Phidal 'Busy Books'!
Adrian Little saved me a few more unpainted
ones a while back, and I'd taken the above line-up before I sorted them into
the main collection from the attic lot. Although the driver has remained
unpainted, the car has had its silver overspray.
Obviously I need an unpainted footballer
for completeness-sake, and have a few spares for a like-for-like swap - runner,
rider, boxer (or swimmer/diver? I'll have to check?); if anyone has a spare footballer? And anyone following PW magazine recently will find the swimmer/diver strangely familiar!
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