T is for Those Hing Fat Divers Again!

This is the post I was trying (not very effectively) to get up yesterday; a follow-up from Brain B over the pond on Friday's diver posts, he had a newish tub of Hing Fat, who have lost their red/white Gemini-craft/rubber-boat, but gained a pose or two!

It's a big set, in a big tub! Imported by Stevens International but clearly also marked Hing Fat and obviously we're about to look at the divers, but you get equal quantities of (distinctly New York looking) police, Firefighter and Astronaut figures - all without the chunkier accessories they otherwise come with.

We saw the older versions of the swimming (prone) figures the other day, but I have neither of the standing poses, one of which is harking back to the Lone Star chiseler/mine-setter, but the other - holding a spear-gun across his chest - is all new. The underwater-camera-man is new too, and the chap with the motor thingy, has been issued with a newer, smaller model - reflecting real life?

Really, they are 'all new' as while they look like all three sizes of their predecessors (at least one of which was Hing Fat - I suspect the smaller ones), they are (unless I'm mistaken) larger figures, and newer-sculpts rather than pantographed copies? You can also see (as Brian mentioned) the scale between the four figure sets is not remotely constant!

Many thanks to Brian for a swift follow-up and I received a parcel from Peter Evans yesterday, which will be the subject of a future post, and which had a plastic diver in! But he's from the non-Lone Star origins ones with plug-ins, which I've held back for another day.