P is for Potpourri of Plastic Peeps! Peep's 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles!

The vehicular component of Chris's recent parcel contains some interesting bits and bobs, and with nothing more solid to put in the introductory paragraph, let's just get stuck into the imagery!

 

We saw them in the introduction, blocking the 'photo-booth'! Four of the polystyrene premium racing cars, along with, at the front; a robot-car (see below), a mazac game-playing car and a Hong Kong copy in soft polyethylene which has HONGKONG along the bonnet (hood) rather than a racing number.

The car/bot is channelling those odd weathered 'stones' from Kinder, with a sort of non-transforming Transformer twist! A small chunk of polyethylene, it's probably a gum-ball capsule-machine prize?

Artillery came in the forms of a Christmas cracker version of the old Giant gun in approximate 20/25mm compatibility, and a large naval piece, which I suspect once had a firing mechanism and probably knocked something down, but whether that something was figural or more skittle-like is still an open question!

Micro-minis, the trio to the right we've seen before, while the 'styrene PT boat could be cracker-fare or a boardgame playing piece, but looks to have some age, 1950's maybe, and possibly not actually polystyrene but a more phenolic or formaldehyde-based polymer?

Two wagons, both based on the early 'West' German stuff of Maurba, Siku or others, but both from Hong Kong, the nearer a sub-generation piracy of one of the commoner wagons, the circus wagon behind being as well-finished as the Wilton set we looked at here, but needing wheel sets, and suggesting another source, as the colour is both wrong for the same wagon in the Wilton set, and different from the Wilton green?

The Stuka to the left would seem to be a new version of the MPC Mini copies, being the fourth or fifth lot of those knock-off's, with two commoner rack-toy types behind, a Galoob Micro-Machine in the centre and two of the blister-carded rack-toy types to the right.

 

We will hopefully return to all these 'odds' in greater detail one day, as they slowly gather in their bags to make usable or complete samples, and I thank Chris again, for putting them aside for the Blog.