We seem to have a post or two like this
every Rack Toy Month, not so much out of design, more by accident, but they do serve
to illustrate how these things are never as simple as even I might make them
seem sometimes, and definitely more complicated that some people like to make
them out to be as they make it up as they go along!
So this is a right minestrone of a Curate's
egg; the figures are definitely Wing Lung,
the packaging carries branding for Knight
and Gausini, import details for Fancy It Agencies and there was probably another
agency (packer/shipper in Hong Kong/China) bringing the contracts together?
I thought Knight has been seen here before, but they haven't (there is
another one coming), Gausini seems or
sounds Italian, but now redirects to Dteinei
which also sounds Italian but has Chinese spellings and seems to be Canadian? Fancy It will be the bone
fide UK-importer, and the contents could be bought-in from several
sources of which one is definitely Wing
Lung.
The contents are run-of-the-mill stuff and
with the exception of the known Wing Lung
figures, nothing more than generic fare, stuffed in a toob with a cord
carry-handle which dates them to the 1990's/2010's . . . not that such toys
aren't still around, they are! Just that that's how long they've been in the
collection!
The toob is packed out with two vac-formed
end-cups; another recent practice, while the rest of the contents are second or
third generation copies of old 1970's products found in one version or another
in many rack-toy play-sets.
The known Wing Lung portion of the contents (and everything in the previous
image may also be Wing Lung's
output?) consists of a small number of copies of the Matchbox US and German WWII figures (and a couple of Brit's) in the 40mm size,
going quite well with the Ideal radar
trailer - bottom right.
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