This is it and that's that . . . moving
swiftly along . . . what? Alright, alright, I'll put a bit of effort in, but
it's Rack Toy Month, I'm supposed to be having an easy time while you all sit
on the beach ignoring the Blog!
Basically you've got an all polystyrene
playset (with metal axles and ethylene tyres), glued onto the card by someone
holding the glue-brush on the end of a stick by the looks of it, the
road-roller's half covered!
The two vehicles are Matchbox 1-75 Series copies while the figures and accessories are
taken from the Dinky road-menders
set. Why there was a sudden need for road-menders on the top of an escarpment
in Monument Valley (link) is anyone's guess, a tourist helipad?
Trying very hard to look like the Blue Box Bedford truck sets we looked at
here years ago, this is an unbranded generic from an unknown source (well - an
unknown Hong Kong source!)
Source and course - what's that all about?
It should be Sourse or Cource! It's not even an alphabetical rule! Fussa-russa
. . . have we had that rant before? We'll have it again!
This set is all polyethylene even unto the
integrated axles, and the vehicles are copies of other Blue Box copies of Matchbox
1:75th Series models. There are no other marks on the box. Note how the
manufacturer has half-copied Blue Box's
vehicle fixing system, but instead of gluing the underside of the vehicle to a
flat-topped bracket, they have glued an arched bracket over the axle and then
clipped the vehicle in!
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