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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

T is for Two - Waddington's Board Games

Not quite as substantial as I may have been thinking of when I mentioned the possibility last week whenever (or one of the posts publishing yesterday ages ago!), but it ticks a couple of boxes and it's been a while since we had a board game's figures, while the Cludo shots are an addendum to that most vaguely recent games post - link below.

1995 Parachute Press; 1996 Hasbro; Board Game; Board Game Figures; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Clue; Cluedo; Colonel Mustard; Hasbro Board Game; Hasbro Boardgame Pieces; Miss Scartlet; Mrs Peacock; Mrs White; Murder at Tudor Hall; Parachute Press; Playing Board; Playing Piece; Playing Pieces; Professor Plum; Reverend Green; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Terror in the Graveyard; Waddington's; Waddington's Goosebumps; Waddingtons Games;
First though - the newbie; Goosebumps, not that old (1995/6 - Parachute Press/Hasbro) and looking familiar, so probably carried by Argos or the Toysaurus for a while? Although I may be confusing the availability of the game, with a brand familiarity (through the distinctive logo) brought about by the commoner (?) sightings of the books?

1995 Parachute Press; 1996 Hasbro; Board Game; Board Game Figures; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Clue; Cluedo; Colonel Mustard; Hasbro Board Game; Hasbro Boardgame Pieces; Miss Scartlet; Mrs Peacock; Mrs White; Murder at Tudor Hall; Parachute Press; Playing Board; Playing Piece; Playing Pieces; Professor Plum; Reverend Green; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Terror in the Graveyard; Waddington's; Waddington's Goosebumps; Waddingtons Games;
There are eight figural playing pieces of teenager-types; two each, of each of four colours, each pair being a 'team' of one boy and one girl. They are 45mm, so can be used with 54mm adults and there was a sort of pop-up/novelty ghost arrangement I haven't shot, along with the plastic skull and two game-specific die, although the 2-2-3-3-4-5 mean/average (?) dice could prove useful with other gaming?

I think these are too late for Stadden-senior's work, but I wonder if an apprentice of his might have had a hand in them, as it's faintly his style, and they probably came from the Havent plant of what had been Minimodels.

1995 Parachute Press; 1996 Hasbro; Board Game; Board Game Figures; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Clue; Cluedo; Colonel Mustard; Hasbro Board Game; Hasbro Boardgame Pieces; Miss Scartlet; Mrs Peacock; Mrs White; Murder at Tudor Hall; Parachute Press; Playing Board; Playing Piece; Playing Pieces; Professor Plum; Reverend Green; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Terror in the Graveyard; Waddington's; Waddington's Goosebumps; Waddingtons Games;
It's a complicated set-up with lots of slot-together construction and interactive components; apart from the above bits (and the ghost) it's all in landfill, or recycling now!

1995 Parachute Press; 1996 Hasbro; Board Game; Board Game Figures; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Clue; Cluedo; Colonel Mustard; Hasbro Board Game; Hasbro Boardgame Pieces; Miss Scartlet; Mrs Peacock; Mrs White; Murder at Tudor Hall; Parachute Press; Playing Board; Playing Piece; Playing Pieces; Professor Plum; Reverend Green; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Terror in the Graveyard; Waddington's; Waddington's Goosebumps; Waddingtons Games;
I picked-up the Waddington's box for the recent 'from storage' 40mm figure set along with a duplicate set of (Parker/Hasbro) figures, and only because of the - also 1996 - box art. The figures looking different from the ones we looked at the other day, but from the 'duplicate' above, you'll have guessed they weren't.

1995 Parachute Press; 1996 Hasbro; Board Game; Board Game Figures; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Clue; Cluedo; Colonel Mustard; Hasbro Board Game; Hasbro Boardgame Pieces; Miss Scartlet; Mrs Peacock; Mrs White; Murder at Tudor Hall; Parachute Press; Playing Board; Playing Piece; Playing Pieces; Professor Plum; Reverend Green; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Terror in the Graveyard; Waddington's; Waddington's Goosebumps; Waddingtons Games;
But that artwork still leaves us with enough stuff of curiosity to help this post! Top left shows pre-production prototypes which look similar to the final figures but are actually slightly different - the reverend isn't gripping his lapel, the cook's final small handled mixing-bowl is seen here as almost a frying pan. They may still exist somewhere!

However, they are balanced (no sign of glue?) on what would become the final tile-landscaped 'slotta' bases, although here with the slots either un-cut or filled-in. Also on the front of the box, a game in play shows the same prototype figures being used with chamfered-edge flat, smooth, almost puddled bases, with a rim around the lip (two lower images).

Another game in play on the back of the box shows the eventual production figures, in the paler gray plastic but with a third base type which, frankly - and despite the poor resolution -appear to be upturned, repainted, Smartie-tube lids?

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