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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.

Monday, August 12, 2019

B is for Blue Box Black-top Bitumen Barrow Boys

Except one of them isn't Blue Box and it should be a 'T is for Two . . .' but I got carried away with the alliteration! Having looked at stretched versions of the common Mobile Combat Team sized sets, I thought we'd better look at the civilianised version!

"Blue-Box"; "Blue-Box" Toys; Blue Box; Blue Box Clone; Blue Box Road Repair Set; Blue Box Series; Blue Box Toys; Boxed Toy; Construction Set; Construction Toy; Construction Workers; Dinky Road Crew; Dinky Road Menders; Hand Painted; Hong Kong Generic; Made in Hong Kong; Matchbox 1-75 Series; Matchbox Copies; Road Repair Set; Road Sign Toys; Road Worker; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Crane;
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?

"Blue-Box"; "Blue-Box" Toys; Blue Box; Blue Box Clone; Blue Box Road Repair Set; Blue Box Series; Blue Box Toys; Boxed Toy; Construction Set; Construction Toy; Construction Workers; Dinky Road Crew; Dinky Road Menders; Hand Painted; Hong Kong Generic; Made in Hong Kong; Matchbox 1-75 Series; Matchbox Copies; Road Repair Set; Road Sign Toys; Road Worker; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Crane;
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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