Just a quick box-ticker really - not enough
to photograph, not enough to say! I looked at Trek from Spear's Games the
other day and a similar set with an animal buying/bagging mechanism rather than
the stores-accruing of the former marks the main difference with this set from Ariel Games.
Zoo
Quest was a BBC TV series
most notable for giving David Attenborough his start in presenting natural
history programming, and this licensed tie-in game will date from the same time,
between 1954/5-1963 I guess?
The 25mm soft polyethylene explorers are
the most useful thing here and the reason it's in the collection, they are a
tad larger than the Airfix Tarzan
figures and while technically semi-flats, th nature of the pose and the depth
of the sculpting means they could paint-up quite well with 25/28mm role-playing
figures.
I got to thinking about Ariel's title with this game being TV
related as was the Gillette Cup
televised by the BBC for many years (cricket game we've seen here passim), and
it struck me they might have been named for the aerials (different spelling) down-which
TV signals were sent?
It turns out that while there's no evidence
for such (they were a division of Philmar
Publishing, eventually bought by Gibson's),
they did produce a large number of mostly children's television program related
card games (snap, happy families etc), featuring both ITV and BBC staples of
the late 1950's and the 1960's, so it may be the reason . . . I like the idea
it might be!
Greetings from Texas. Had to do a double take on the figures. Turns out those are binoculars or high pockets...? I enjoy your blog, and I'm glad you are posting regularly again.
ReplyDeleteYes! I nearly added they could be painted-up as a rather pert lady-explorer, but they ARE binoculars!!!!
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