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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Sunday, April 10, 2022

I is for International Micro-Rescue

As a follow-up to two of the last three posts (Thunderbirds and micro space ships), while I was getting the Jumbo game, I picked this up as a box-ticker for something silly between 99p and a fiver, it's common, modern'ish (1992, Peter Pan Playthings) and fun!

1992 ITC Entertainment Group Ltd.; Board Game; Boardgame Pieces; International Rescue; International Rescue Game; IR; Licensed Copyright Promotions Ltd.; Peter Pan Playthings 1992; Playing Pieces; PPP; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Thunderbird 1; Thunderbird 2; Thunderbird 3; Thunderbird 4; Thunderbird Game; Thunderbirds; Thunderbirds Are Go; Thunderbirds Game;
Box and tray; it's all happening on the lid and look at all those mini Thunderbirds!

1992 ITC Entertainment Group Ltd.; Board Game; Boardgame Pieces; International Rescue; International Rescue Game; IR; Licensed Copyright Promotions Ltd.; Peter Pan Playthings 1992; Playing Pieces; PPP; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Thunderbird 1; Thunderbird 2; Thunderbird 3; Thunderbird 4; Thunderbird Game; Thunderbirds; Thunderbirds Are Go; Thunderbirds Game;
The mechanism - which I didn't read - is collection tokens (pegs) while travelling 'home you go' style round a board and dealing with stuff as you go . . . I think! Each 'ship' has two holes for it's pegs, and there's no constant scale between them, with 'T4' as oversized as it often is!

The card Tracy Island helps divide the four launch-pads! While more pegs lead to the Hood.

1992 ITC Entertainment Group Ltd.; Board Game; Boardgame Pieces; International Rescue; International Rescue Game; IR; Licensed Copyright Promotions Ltd.; Peter Pan Playthings 1992; Playing Pieces; PPP; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Thunderbird 1; Thunderbird 2; Thunderbird 3; Thunderbird 4; Thunderbird Game; Thunderbirds; Thunderbirds Are Go; Thunderbirds Game;
Board, with close-up of the launch-pads.

1992 ITC Entertainment Group Ltd.; Board Game; Boardgame Pieces; International Rescue; International Rescue Game; IR; Licensed Copyright Promotions Ltd.; Peter Pan Playthings 1992; Playing Pieces; PPP; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Thunderbird 1; Thunderbird 2; Thunderbird 3; Thunderbird 4; Thunderbird Game; Thunderbirds; Thunderbirds Are Go; Thunderbirds Game;
There's a shed-load (small shed!) of exciting artwork littered about to keep the board interesting and the bored interested!

That's it, box-ticked!

2 comments:

Jan Ferris said...

Looks like you could get some fun out of it.

Hugh Walter said...

I'm sure it would be a lot of fun for a family with kids Jan, I've just kept the vehicles!

H