Just a quickie but it ties into the
previous post, indeed it is the only real reason the previous post was
published in the end! We've seen the current/more recent Halsall (now HTI) stuff
here before, both as shelfies and collection, but this has been in the collection
for 15-20 years I think and adds to the whole picture.
The obvious thing to note is that the
contents are the same as Kentoys
own-branded sets, so these are a contract-manufactured, or just
catalogue-bought 'thing', with optional own-brand graphics set for Halsall, but originating with Kentoys.
However the Teamsters sub-branding or line brand-mark has - more recently -
been used for stuff which originated with Pioneer!
Yeah . . . it's almost been Pioneer
month not Rack Toy Month this year,
but that's purely coincidental - a lot of it was in the box I had to take-apart!
Quick close-up of the figures, always the
driving force here at Small Scale World,
the accessories have a lot in common with stuff in Supreme sets and as I said at the start of the month, one day I'll
do comparison articles for all this stuff, and try to make more sense of it all
for posterity!
Case in point here - this helicopter is a
much poorer or cruder model than the Pioneer
one we saw in a more recent HTI Teamsters
set, but by itself, is far improved on a lot of these little EC-OH-Bell type
small-seater models, out there from HK/China, the method of attachment and
design of rotors and skids or wheels will be the final arbiter on how to ID
most of them!
But there's more work to be done, and you
do need the 'stuff' to make the calls, for instance, did Halsall take the Kentoys
military set? I don't know! Were the figures in the two more recent emergency
sets by/from Pioneer or Kentoys? They don't match these, but are
close to the eight soldiers' sculpts, the bases being the clue, so maybe Kentoys, even though the other contents
had switched to Pioneer . . .
. . . and that would give two sets/pairs of
police and two sets/pairs of firefighters from the same source . . . it's
almost never ending, but we will get as far as we can here in the years to
come! And that's why I am still working on the firefighter page Brain and Theo
have contributed-to and Chris has sent several figures for; time, it's all a
matter of time!
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