Did all toys come in red boxes once! Except
at Christmas, of course, when they came in patterned boxes with holly leaves! Slightly
misleading artwork gives the impression you will construct a whole fleet of
eight-foot lorries, but covered by the blurb; against complaints.
Some of you may have heard this already; my
mate JB once sold a Britains Garden
kiddie's lawn-slide to a chap on feebleBay, who immediately gave him a negative
feedback and complained it was a misleading description because it was a toy!
It was listed in the toy section, under
vintage figures and Britains, sold
for a few quid and was posted to another continent for less than a pair of
shoes, what the f*** did he think he was getting? A ten-foot, polished-steel,
piece of outdoor play-equipment - with postage - for less money than a shoulder
of lamb! Terri-catta . . . lightweight Caribineri!
The sum of the parts! If the artwork in the
previous image is to be believed there would have been green parts as well.
Also some of the blue pieces are a different shade, so it wasn't a case of
dropping whole runners into the box, or even stripping runners or sections of
runner, but rather picking from bins of assorted coloured pieces.
Instructions; by today's standards this
could be seen as a simpler toy for simpler times, one-and-three-part
'dimestore' trucks in a box, saves on glue huh?!! But suppose it was a crew-cab
Toyota Hi-Lux with four clip-in body types? Suddenly it would be all 'modern'
and OK!
The design is similar to the lorries
carried by Beeju, who did do some scaled-up versions I think, maybe they
supplied these to Codeg if they weren’t making them themselves, if they are
Codeg-manufactured, then definitely 'derivative'!
Thanks to Adrian Little for the pictures!
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