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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.

Thursday, August 15, 2019

IHC is for Mini People Rack Toy

International Hobby Corporation was born - in part - out of the rump of AHM (Associated Hobby Manufacturers) when the later filed for bankruptcy in 1982. Where AHM imported all sorts of toys and models, IHC tend to concentrate on model railroad stuff, where they seem to be head-to-head with Model Power, at least in the 'States, but I'm no expert on that aspect of the hobby.

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Item 4261 from the Mini-People line is a set of six firefighters, here seen as an assortment of four poses, but I suspect that varies from pack to pack as there are six poses to chose from and therefore no reason to duplicate

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Dario from Italy picked up some unpainted tool-shots still on the runner and sent us some pictures and here you can see the fifth pose on a part-runner; a chap fighting with the fire-hose, scaled against a Quaker Gladiator, you can also tell they are sized to HO-gauge (1:87th) model railways rather than the slightly larger British outline OO (1:76th), and that the tool had many identical cavities.

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The cavities have an odd distribution which continues through to the other end (?) of the runner, where here we see the other four poses but in twos, threes or fours with some together, some interspersed.

I may have a third type of these figures somewhere, either as a second branding, or different colour of unpainted plastic (white?) figures loose but I can't remember, it just means we may return to them again one day - with more of the story? Not least because these (IHC packed) will most likely be bought-in/re-badged anyway.

Speaking of Model Power - as I was a moment ago - they are in the queue too, and many thanks to Dario for the images.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks for the post! i came across a zip-loc bag of about 70 or so of these figures - in 5 different poses - for about 25 cents at a goodwill thrift store and was trying to find out more about them and this did the trick. appreciate it!

Hugh Walter said...

Happy to have been of assistance! One day it'll all be here, but at the moment it's still a bit hit-or-miss; happily you got a 'hit'!

H