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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.

Saturday, October 15, 2022

O is for Old-fashioned Odd & Sods!

The finale post in this hexapartite mini-season on old fashioned cars, brings us back to the Americans, even though one's a British brand! Yes - of course I Googled synonyms of 'sixth', I'm not that bright!

Chicago In The 30's; Commemorative Playset; Conversion; Disneyland Play Set; Drive By Shooter; London Omnibus; Louis Marx Toys; Mafia Drive-By; Mafia Shooter; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Plastic Toys; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Parker-Hasbro; Rainbow Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tonka Toys; Tonka-Hasbro-Funrise; Vendetta;
We looked at this years ago, but on that occasion we looked mostly at the figures, with a quick look at a car I had removed from the game-mechanism . . . this time we're concentrating on the car, as I found another going cheap in a charity shop and took photographs as I went about the vandalism! Love the artwork!

Chicago In The 30's; Commemorative Playset; Conversion; Disneyland Play Set; Drive By Shooter; London Omnibus; Louis Marx Toys; Mafia Drive-By; Mafia Shooter; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Plastic Toys; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Parker-Hasbro; Rainbow Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tonka Toys; Tonka-Hasbro-Funrise; Vendetta;
Made for Parker by Tonka, but as everything, box and components is CE marked, they must be recent enough to be from the Tonka-Hasbro-Funrise era, which - these days - also includes Parker Games, among many others! Hasbro's tentacles are very-much like the old Lines Brothers!

Chicago In The 30's; Commemorative Playset; Conversion; Disneyland Play Set; Drive By Shooter; London Omnibus; Louis Marx Toys; Mafia Drive-By; Mafia Shooter; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Plastic Toys; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Parker-Hasbro; Rainbow Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tonka Toys; Tonka-Hasbro-Funrise; Vendetta;
The spinning cars are easily removed with a sharp ker'nighff, and because there is a 'curb' running along the . . . err . . . running-boards, it's easy to get a nice straight line! I actually did the job without the driver in the way, proving that these shots are posed 'fake news'!

Chicago In The 30's; Commemorative Playset; Conversion; Disneyland Play Set; Drive By Shooter; London Omnibus; Louis Marx Toys; Mafia Drive-By; Mafia Shooter; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Plastic Toys; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Parker-Hasbro; Rainbow Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tonka Toys; Tonka-Hasbro-Funrise; Vendetta;
Which leaves us with a nice, if rather simplified 'ready-made' hoodlum's runabout, a mid/late-20's, prohibition-era, sports-convertible with the roof down. Would I be way-off to suggest Buick lines? And quite large, maybe around 1:40th in scale?

Chicago In The 30's; Commemorative Playset; Conversion; Disneyland Play Set; Drive By Shooter; London Omnibus; Louis Marx Toys; Mafia Drive-By; Mafia Shooter; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Plastic Toys; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Parker-Hasbro; Rainbow Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tonka Toys; Tonka-Hasbro-Funrise; Vendetta;
Last time we looked at this I think I may have said something about the small, simplified driver, but I've realised that as an American Mafioso 'drive-by' car, the non-modelled steering-wheel would be the same side as the shooter ("Get your hands on the wheel dude! Jesus!"), and what's actually modelled isn't a shrunken driver, but the violin-case associated with hiding Mr Thomson's famous, fully-automatic firearm!

Chicago In The 30's; Commemorative Playset; Conversion; Disneyland Play Set; Drive By Shooter; London Omnibus; Louis Marx Toys; Mafia Drive-By; Mafia Shooter; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Plastic Toys; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Parker-Hasbro; Rainbow Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tonka Toys; Tonka-Hasbro-Funrise; Vendetta;
These three are actually Disney! And a really nasty PVC which sweats an oily/greasy liquid, like a damp, chewy-sweet - they all had to be washed twice before they could be photographed! The wheels are non-turning, but are on a rigid - probably polypropylene - chassis which is clipped to the PVC body. Somewhere between my vague 'mini and 'micro' designations, they might suit 15mm figures?

Chicago In The 30's; Commemorative Playset; Conversion; Disneyland Play Set; Drive By Shooter; London Omnibus; Louis Marx Toys; Mafia Drive-By; Mafia Shooter; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Plastic Toys; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Parker-Hasbro; Rainbow Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tonka Toys; Tonka-Hasbro-Funrise; Vendetta;
I think they were made for the UK Disney Stores (most of which seem to have gone now, Reading's might still be in situ?) by Rainbow Toys, however, Rainbow (also connnnected to Toy Options) worked with LJN in the 'States, so it might have been that they are wider-known toys, possibly sold through actual Disneyland shops in the US or near Paris? Equally, Rainbow supplied Argos the UK catalogue shop, so there could have been several ways of getting your hands on a set?

Chicago In The 30's; Commemorative Playset; Conversion; Disneyland Play Set; Drive By Shooter; London Omnibus; Louis Marx Toys; Mafia Drive-By; Mafia Shooter; Old Fashioned Cars; Old Plastic Toys; Old Timers; Oldtimers; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Parker-Hasbro; Rainbow Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tonka Toys; Tonka-Hasbro-Funrise; Vendetta;
'The Set' being a re-hash of the old 1960/70'sDisneyland play set from Louis Marx in America, which did have a car similar to the middle one above. It also had an omnibus, but a single-decked affair rather than this double-decker  . . . ♪♪ Big four-wheeler, scarlet-painted, London Transport, diesel-engined, Ninety-seven horsepower om-ni-bus!

Did/do they have a red double-decked jobbie at the Paris Disneyland? I've ever been, something I'm quite proud of, almost as proud-of as the fact I've never watched the Kardashians! That's Old Fashioned Cars for a while, but we will return I'm sure, I found another couple of Hong Kong carded ones taking everything to to the storage unit, and we haven't done the Micro-ones yet!

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