Box; about four inches square and the artwork
places it among the early 1960's ranges. Contents list is accurate, but the
blub is so much salesman's hot air, as is the 'Plastic Toy Series' line; they didn't have series' of any other
material at the time!
Also seen in Marx 'Majestic Series' sets (as supplied by Blue Box . . . or Tai Sang!),
these are mostly Merit copies (all
fencings, horses and cows), with the pigs possibly Blue Box sculpts (they were
also issued by Redbox) and the house being
one of many, many Hong Kong copies of any one of several German, Austrian or
French model railway trackside accessory producers.
The figures are more interesting, as they
might have been copied by Marx first
(for their Miniature Masterpiece farm
sets) and then passed to Blue Box
during the Majestic Series
negotiations, but equally Blue Box
may have pantographed them down from their own 54mm piracies, with Marx doing some parallel 'lifting'
straight from Britains, whose figure
sculpts they actually are!
A smaller set, pretty-much the same layout
as the Majestic Series set we sawhere,
but bagged with a header-card. We saw similar sets with fewer contents, both branded
as Success (WH Cornelius - now PlayWrite)
and unbranded generics, in the loose figure post. The pigs have escaped -
they do that! While Britains features more obviously with the inclusion of
copies of their lambs and rabbits in 1:32nd scale.
Note; I may in the past have described the Majestic Series as the Sunshine Series, this was a Wild West
line also supplied by Blue Box to Marx, so if I have - soz!
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