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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.
Showing posts with label 'All The King's Men'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 'All The King's Men'. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2019

Q is for Question Time - Parker Games Knight in Armour

Well . . . I know it's Parker, not KPG (Kenner-Parker Games) and not Hasbro and that's pretty much all I know! Whether it was also Waddington's on this side of the pond is anyone's guess and what it was called is beyond me, but hopefully someone will know the game?

1978; Board Game Knight; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Knight In Armour; Knight Playing Piece; Knights In Armour; Medieval Chess Figure; Medieval Figures; Medieval Toy Figure; Old Plastic Toys; Old Toy Soldiers; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Toys; Playing Piece; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Knights; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
It's a knight-in-armour alright, but then I wouldn't have said so if it wasn't! My guess - for what it's worth - is that it's probably an empty suit of armour in a grand house or museum, possibly being used as a prop in a posh version of Clue/Cludo or maybe to jump out at those 'pesky kids' in a Scooby Doo franchise game? A haunted-house or ghost game is another possibility?

1978; Board Game Knight; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Knight In Armour; Knight Playing Piece; Knights In Armour; Medieval Chess Figure; Medieval Figures; Medieval Toy Figure; Old Plastic Toys; Old Toy Soldiers; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Toys; Playing Piece; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Knights; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
This is one of those 'tip your screen slightly (or bob your head) to read it clearly' images - dated to 1978; a date that would fit Scooby's early popularity nicely, and wasn't that also around the time of the Clue movie? Anyone remember a board-game from their youth with a knight in armour? I suppose it could be a chess piece, but . . . Parker . . . 1970's? Bit highbrow for them, then! 

25th Jan., 2021 - All The King's Men board game, home-painted silver.