O is for Old-fashioned Odd & Sods!

The finale post in this hexapartite mini-season on old fashioned cars, brings us back to the Americans, even though one's a British brand! Yes - of course I Googled synonyms of 'sixth', I'm not that bright!

We looked at this years ago, but on that occasion we looked mostly at the figures, with a quick look at a car I had removed from the game-mechanism . . . this time we're concentrating on the car, as I found another going cheap in a charity shop and took photographs as I went about the vandalism! Love the artwork!

Made for Parker by Tonka, but as everything, box and components is CE marked, they must be recent enough to be from the Tonka-Hasbro-Funrise era, which - these days - also includes Parker Games, among many others! Hasbro's tentacles are very-much like the old Lines Brothers!

The spinning cars are easily removed with a sharp ker'nighff, and because there is a 'curb' running along the . . . err . . . running-boards, it's easy to get a nice straight line! I actually did the job without the driver in the way, proving that these shots are posed 'fake news'!

Which leaves us with a nice, if rather simplified 'ready-made' hoodlum's runabout, a mid/late-20's, prohibition-era, sports-convertible with the roof down. Would I be way-off to suggest Buick lines? And quite large, maybe around 1:40th in scale?

Last time we looked at this I think I may have said something about the small, simplified driver, but I've realised that as an American Mafioso 'drive-by' car, the non-modelled steering-wheel would be the same side as the shooter ("Get your hands on the wheel dude! Jesus!"), and what's actually modelled isn't a shrunken driver, but the violin-case associated with hiding Mr Thomson's famous, fully-automatic firearm!

These three are actually Disney! And a really nasty PVC which sweats an oily/greasy liquid, like a damp, chewy-sweet - they all had to be washed twice before they could be photographed! The wheels are non-turning, but are on a rigid - probably polypropylene - chassis which is clipped to the PVC body. Somewhere between my vague 'mini and 'micro' designations, they might suit 15mm figures?

I think they were made for the UK Disney Stores (most of which seem to have gone now, Reading's might still be in situ?) by Rainbow Toys, however, Rainbow (also connnnected to Toy Options) worked with LJN in the 'States, so it might have been that they are wider-known toys, possibly sold through actual Disneyland shops in the US or near Paris? Equally, Rainbow supplied Argos the UK catalogue shop, so there could have been several ways of getting your hands on a set?

'The Set' being a re-hash of the old 1960/70'sDisneyland play set from Louis Marx in America, which did have a car similar to the middle one above. It also had an omnibus, but a single-decked affair rather than this double-decker  . . . ♪♪ Big four-wheeler, scarlet-painted, London Transport, diesel-engined, Ninety-seven horsepower om-ni-bus! ♫

Did/do they have a red double-decked jobbie at the Paris Disneyland? I've ever been, something I'm quite proud of, almost as proud-of as the fact I've never watched the Kardashians! That's Old Fashioned Cars for a while, but we will return I'm sure, I found another couple of Hong Kong carded ones taking everything to to the storage unit, and we haven't done the Micro-ones yet!

Han Solo is for Indiana Jones? Or is it a Blade Runner!

Another bike! And he got around - that Harrison Ford, and gave us three iconic characters!

A couple of sets here which could have been part of something much bigger and more long-lived, as far as toy lines or concepts go, but which was aimed at the casual 'tourist' pound and priced way beyond true rack toys despite being 'only' rack toys, and pretty scant ones at that!

One blistered from the common Disney mall-shops, a card-back shared with two of the other sets in this four set line, the other (the fourth) windowed and apparently a Disney Theme Park exclusive, I have no way of verifying that and one needs to remember that the gift shops in those places are some of the busiest, highest turnover retail spaces on the planet, so 'Limited Edition' it 'aint!

I got it for the motorbike! I haven't taken a tape measure to them but they are sort of 35/40mm, not the 54mm they were passed off as by someone a while ago, not that there are many people who would make such a fundamental error (as fact), indeed, I can only think of two, and it was one of them!

Not so sure about the candy-pink sand though, especially as it doesn't match the tan bases of the other set! I think these are the third movie's characters?

While these are from the 1st movie; Raiders of the Lost Ark, the other two sets were single vehicles, the vaguely Blom und Voss from 'raiders and the WWI tank from Lost Ark, with stroppy, pouting 'ex' in tow

Basically between the four sets you have everything you need to reproduce the two most iconic scenes from both the 'German' movies, the fight at the 'plane and the tank chase. I didn't measure them and they are back in the garage now, but they are approximately 30/35mm, not the 54mm indicated by TJF's sidekick a year or two ago!