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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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, January 14, 2024

B is for Big-Box Play Set

I've mentioned before that we never really did big play sets here in the UK, houses were too small, I think? The closest we got to such things really were the 'HO-OO' assault sets from Airfix, and a few similar things in the late 1970's from them in 1:32nd scale and/or Matchbox, who's were a tad poorer I thought, but this set from Supreme / SP Toys is of similar thought.

Scanned from an old Wilkinsons catalogue from the 2000's, these were piled high each Christmas for several years, and Index (the UK catalogue shop) may have carried one or two. Strangely, for what is supposed to be a publicity shot, this in the set with the poorest contents, most of th sets having fewer 'planes and more, better vehicles, but if you're a fan of 'planes, I guess this would have been the one for you?
 
We looked at the contents back at the start of the blog;
 

and a few years later;

 
And I suppose there were about six or eight different ones, as far as contents went, of which I maybe saw about five in person, plus this one, and one with more desert versions of the vehicles I only have in green, which I know existed, as a shop in Farnborough used them in a window display one year!

1 comment:

Gisby said...

Just a FYI - The building in the upper right was available in dollar stores in Canada with a car. It's a shallow frontage, made in a lovely styrene.

I cut off the garage section and used the building as the basis of an Old West building.

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