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!
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!
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!
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'!
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?
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!
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?
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?
'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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