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;

 

AFV's - https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2010/03/s-is-for-supremesp-toys-part-1-armour.html

Soft Skins - https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2010/03/s-is-for-supremesp-toys-part-2-soft.html

Big Rigs - https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2010/03/s-is-for-supremesp-toys-part-3.html 

Combat Engineering - https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2010/03/is-for-applause-part-4-armoured.html

and a few years later;

Figures - https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2014/11/s-is-for-supreme-sp-toysand.html

 

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!