Different contents same box, just as with
the Combat Team's, but here the
contents include at least two vehicles and a bunch of scenic accessories, the
scenic accessories are the same in both sets - one each of both blow-mould
copies of the Crescent sandbag
walls/entrenchments (also pirated in hard plastic by Marx in their Miniature
Masterpiece range) and two sections of barbed-wire fence, held to the card
with the same plastic piece used to glue in the vehicles.
However the lower set having a smaller second
'vehicle' (a small helicopter) also gets the motorcycle, a late one with the
block underneath (where the glue goes!). Figures are a mix or British (ex-Britains), US and medics (both Blue Box original sculpts).
This is an earlier version of the same
retail 'package', this time with three vehicles, no scenery and less figures.
The lid folds up into a display card (with odd scaling!), there were probably a
bunch of these in an 'outer' or liner; a shop-stock box, and one of the sets
would be so displayed at the back of the box, to show the contents, with the
customer taking a sealed one. Sometimes this one would be sold at a discount -
once the rest of the stock had sold-out.
The contents of the earlier set from a
better angle, I've seen several of these over the years, so it was probably
quite a common one at the time. Mine's a bit tatty now but I saw a much nicer
one go through Vectis a few years
ago, very clean.
Box ends, the later set (77547) was sold in
1968, the older one (7406) might date from the late 1950's but is probably from
the early 1960's.
Thanks to James Opie for the rocket-lorry
set - and the date!
2 comments:
OMG I remember the Blue-Box vehicles as having a very strong and peculiar odour to them. Open the box, and whew! What a stink!
It might have been the glue they used? To hold everything to the card; it looks like Evostick double-plus-shite!
H
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