Or, T is for a half, as I won't spend much
time on one of them, it's destined for the 'But Is It Giant' page,
and already has an intro' article, to go here, so that’s for next week or
something, after I've got Rack Toy month out of the way . . . although we're
less than half-way through the articles in that (RTM) section, so I'll continue
to work through them for a bit!
Commonly referred to as Toy House (even by them, themselves!),
there is officially a 'The' in front!
A large-scale Western buckboard wagon, in bottle-bag with header card and a
blister-carded lot of repackaged Giant aliens (from Mars!) with a flying-saucer
/ space-station / UFO thingy.
So to the wagon . . . only nine pieces and
simple at that but I couldn't resist the colours; muted oranges and a turquoise-blue
wagon body! Design is a simple one-horse affair, for all those one-horse towns!
Riders are quite specific with an offset locating
stud on the driver (I think the sculpt is a copy of a larger figure with a
locating stud in the center of his butt, whom was seen here at Small Scale World
in passing once. The 'guard' who is very casually posed has a more complicated
and very specific locating 'key'. The horse - who is expected to pull a bloody
large wagon - is a skeletal-thin semi-flat!
I also suspect this is locally (US)
produced; there is no sign of Hong Kong on anything, the plastic is a bit
'western production' chalky and the design seems to be Payton's but with a single late '45mm' horse instead of a fuller
team, interestingly, the card mentions 'horses' and shows two? Also; there are
four locating studs for what must have been a tilt/cover, which is missing, and
for which there isn't room in the bag.
The whole assembles into a lovely carpet/garden
toy with tons of play-value - if you're five - and have a small handful of
stuff to carry about!
Isn't that the old MPC wagon, or descended from it?
ReplyDeleteYes, similar Gisby, the MPC has all same-size wheels I think? Rather like the UK's Khaki Infantry or Hong Kongs farm & zoo animals, the US companies seem to have heavily copied a few lines off each other!
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Both the buckboard and that Mars Men set are awesome Hugh! Maybe I should break out my buckboard from it's plastic bag prison! LOL and now I'm on the hunt for more Toy House goodies!
ReplyDeleteI think I've posted a Wild West one somewhere, and there's another in the queue, but over on the But Is It Giant Blog!
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