I can't for the life of me remember who
these are attributed to, but I know I've posted their A-Z entry, so I'll look
them up when I'm up the Library to post this and put the brand in these
brackets; here (Ace Acme - same poses but colour variations and a new green)!
They were capsule toys and tend to turn-up
in ones or two's, although I think one of the US dealers was selling them by
the handful back in the 1990's, and I hope I have both new colour variants and
a new pose in this trio.
These were also a welcome addition to the
vaults, I have a few already, and I know they are Christmas Cracker inserts,
but there are three new poses here (there's a whole post coming) and a
matching, larger-scaled Chinasaur who is new to me, and extends the 'story' of
these otherwise unremarkable, unattributed mini'mals.
This is fun despite not being a figure at
all really, rather a graphic representation of a . . . err . . . penguin? But
he comes after this post (yes- the title was diabolical!) the other day and is probably the 1970's grandparent of
the newer, all polyethylene ones, having a steel-bar axle for ethylene wheels
with a styrene body.
I vaguely remember posting a link to these
a few years ago, some memories of a mail-order catalogue's scans . . . or
screen-caps from a .pdf? Anyway, here they are in all their flat, floppy glory
. . . fridge magnets!
AND - continuing the running trope in Plastic Warrior magazine recently
- the 'orange force' are all left-handed, left-hooking, left paws! Due to their
all having being mirror-flipped vertically at the printers! Brilliant!
Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub!
How cool are these? Cool enough for
firefighting school; that's how! Pencil tops of Trumpton firemen (they were definitely firemen, not firefighters in
those days!) and I'm not sure they are among the six named in the ditty, being
the station commander and his boss? I'll check with Youtube, there's bound to
be a clip there? Later . . . Captain Flack on the left and Barney McGrew on the right!
I recognised the way the trees were
attached to their bases as being the same as the trackside accessories from the
old Mettoy Playcraft plastic-railways
of our childhood, and knowing there were Hong Kong copies of it (our childhood track
(all village-fête buys) was more HK silver than Playcraft red!) I looked them up in Bill B's catalogue, and sure
enough, here they are; from Rays Ltd.,
(Wah Hing Industrial Mansion) of
Kowloon - another one nailed!
The scale is more G-gauge ('Big') than
anything else, which is, the Rays'
stuff; the Playcraft rolling-stock
was all smaller, aping Brio. And
looking at the inner set's track (black), this would appear to be more
compatible with Big Train or Timpo's Wild West trains than the Playcraft stuff? But the outer track (blue)
does seem to have the Playcraft
wheel-channel system/design. I think Tomy
had a similar system?
Cheers to Chris, all found a happy home here
now! Coming next - some other highlights.
2 comments:
Hi there, The Trumpton firemen are the crew for this toy https://trumptonalia.homestead.com/BradgateFireEngine.html
Hope this helps.
Cheers
It does Edwin, thank you very much . . . I did wonder if they were 'little tykes' type things, but they were perfect for pencils too! And the link reveals a reviewer even more cynical than me!
Cheers
H
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