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Saturday, March 9, 2019

Q is for Question Time - Parker Games Knight in Armour

Well . . . I know it's Parker, not KPG (Kenner-Parker Games) and not Hasbro and that's pretty much all I know! Whether it was also Waddington's on this side of the pond is anyone's guess and what it was called is beyond me, but hopefully someone will know the game?

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It's a knight-in-armour alright, but then I wouldn't have said so if it wasn't! My guess - for what it's worth - is that it's probably an empty suit of armour in a grand house or museum, possibly being used as a prop in a posh version of Clue/Cludo or maybe to jump out at those 'pesky kids' in a Scooby Doo franchise game? A haunted-house or ghost game is another possibility?

1978; Board Game Knight; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Knight In Armour; Knight Playing Piece; Knights In Armour; Medieval Chess Figure; Medieval Figures; Medieval Toy Figure; Old Plastic Toys; Old Toy Soldiers; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Toys; Playing Piece; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Knights; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
This is one of those 'tip your screen slightly (or bob your head) to read it clearly' images - dated to 1978; a date that would fit Scooby's early popularity nicely, and wasn't that also around the time of the Clue movie? Anyone remember a board-game from their youth with a knight in armour? I suppose it could be a chess piece, but . . . Parker . . . 1970's? Bit highbrow for them, then! 

25th Jan., 2021 - All The King's Men board game, home-painted silver. 

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