Not really a rack Toy, as they are on the shelf, and £8.00, but sort of 'rack toy fare' if you know what I mean, which you will by the end of the post, hopefully, if you're paying attention, which nobody says you have to, you're all free agents!
Back at the beginning of May, Peter Evans, roving reporter of
Plastic Warrior Magazine, asked me to look out for this set, which he'd seen being advertised by
B&M, the modern replacement for the now defunct
Woolworths,
Wilkinsons and
Debenhams (sans clothes!), which I said I'd do the next day as I was heading over to B&M, looking for something else - a set of art markers!
Well, in the end I had to go to three stores to get the art markers; Basingrad, Borden and Reading, but none of them had the reported Helicopter set! In the meantime, Peter had found images to keep me keen, however, after a couple more visits, and more info' from Peter it wasn't until well unto July, that I finally got them, not in Borden (the smaller store) but in the B-stoke biggie! Just in time for the summer holidays!
Eight different figure poses, which look familiar, but I can't remember where/when or if we've seen these exact sculpts, or just something similar? And they come in green and brown, which kept washing-out under the flash!
Slightly skinny US-equiped types, the brown here is truer to the eye, than the other shots in this post, or at least I think it is, you, or I, may be hopelessly colour-blind, in a way not yet recognised by science, without knowing it, and have a completely different view of the world, compared to everyone else?!
A small 'readymade' tank, more 'space' than generic anything, is the best of the three smaller vehicles included, although it resembles some drawing-board stuff!
Accessories are pretty run-of-the-mill.
Scaler, it's basically rack toy junk, in a big Helicopter-shaped carry-case!
Only the one flag, a subdued-colour USAF, but several holes for it about the place!
The figures, while conforming to the advertised count, and a 50/50 (welp, 40/40!) split, seem to be otherwise, completely random in the assortment, with only one brown 'ready', but seven 'commander' sculpts!
It's fun, and it's nice that some people are still putting new stuff out there, and thanks to Peter for the heads-up, we buy this shit so you don't have to, but out there now, B&M, if you fancy a punt!
2 comments:
Was this set put out by Chap Mei? Over the Christmas holidays in the US I found a Chap Mei "Tank Soldier Bucket", part of their Soldier Force line, at Dollar General for $10. 45 pieces of the same figures and accessories as the helicopter set. They are clearly inspired by the Blue Box/Sunny Days. Maxx Force bucket set figures. If some enterprising retailer sold both sets, and whatever other sets the manufacturer has thought up, a kid could put together an interesting army.
That's certainly ringing bells with their familiarity, Daniel, and here, it's a B&M branded set, but in any other way a 'generic', so that all makes sense! Cheers,
H
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