C is for Can't Say "No"!

I just can't walk past one of these! This is the third I've bought now, two boxed and a loose one, with an original sent by Great Gizmos to me, as 'Contributing Editor' as I then was (I'm back to just being a supporter/subscriber now!), for PW's little 1-inch brother. Which is four, which is a troop, a patrol, a flight! And, an excuse to paint one or two of them one day!

 

We've seen her before! More than once! It's a duplicate post, but here she is again, the Dimestore Dreams, via Great Gozmos deluxe plastic X-100 Spaceship! Copied from the vintage X-200 Space Ranger design from Pyro/Tudor Rose et al, it's all been written in the previous blurbs!

 

The trouble with my affliction, is a strange emotional connection with the - now long-gone - product, because there was a genuine enthusiasm to promote it at the time. I'd been invited to attend what was my first Toy Fair, by PW, for the fledgling 1"W magazine, when it was in the vast EXCEL conference centre at Docklands, and found these!

 

They then sent me one each of the military vehicles (five or six?), and I have since also bought one or two more of them, along one or two of the civil motorcycles I hadn't asked for samples of, as I was busy being a proper small-scale only editor, and they also sent me a couple of the civil version vehicles, anbulance and linesman's truck if memory serves!

 

An excuse to get Lik Be's little 1:76th/72nd LB 'bots out!

Hanger/apron maintenance crew! 

 

Sadly the range didn't last long, and while Great Gizmos carried on, in infant and novelty toys, they actually closed their doors last summer, after 25-years trading.