Well? A sort of theme was the space-sets I managed to pick-up over the weekend, and the matching loose figures, from two genres we've covered here recently, so a quick post on them, and the bonus was getting two-more brands associated with them both.
Haglon taking the
Lik Be clones, and
Trafalgar the
MPC copies,
Trafalgar Toys (better known for their tie-ins with
LJN,
Mego and the Hong Kong subsidiary
Lion Rock) would have been a rival to
WHC,
Grossman and the like, and, indeed, this card may be in the archive as
LJN?
But
Haglon (
Hagemayer) were more of a shipping operation, as far as I understand it, like with container ships, port space and warehouses in Holland, shipping all over Europe, and apparently adding their moniker to some of the stuff they shipped-in, that would have extended far beyond toys, which were probably a minor concern among all the household and garden goods, haberdashery, pet supplies and the like? And I'm sure I've seen this card as a generic. We also saw them as
Woolbro a while back;
As supplied by
Haglon! The 50mm knock-offs of
LB's finaest, apparently limited to four poses (did they pantograph one of the
Clifford sets?!) are not hard to find, although it took me a while to garner a decent sample, I'm now going for one of each colour! These came from four sources over the weekend.
MPC originals, in two slightly different shades of red, we looked at their oeuvre here;
and these are grist to the mill, but again, there comes a point when you are just looking for individual 'better' figures, or a specific pose-colour combination, and these are clean!
Seen in the link in an unreadable, but probably generic set (next to the
Payton bag), the
Trafalgar ones are the better versions, very close to the
MPC, solidly formed and with thicker bases than the other three or so variants.
While these are the
Henbrandt/Hing Fat third-generation (like
Payton's, but worse) sub-piracies, and again, of limited use, but they'll all be sorted into the master collection, before any are passed on, probably to charity, but that's all a few years away, still.
Tim-Mee, so keen to cash-in on
Star Wars (AND
Battlestar Galactica, everyone forgets that was a year later), grabbed one of the
MPC sculpts, with the barest of modification, and there was one in the plunder, last weekend, which was lucky for the completeness of this post!
Which gives us, from the left:
- Haglon-Hagemayer/Woolbro (and others?)
- Tim-Mee
- MPC
- Trafalgar Toys (et al)
- Hing Fat/Henbrandt (et al)
Making more and more sense, every time we visit them, and thanking Adrian Little, Brian Carrick, Colin Penn, Isaac, Matt Murphy, Martin
Fahie, Michael Mordant-Smith, Paul, Peter Evans and Trevor Rudkin, for their input on the day or over the weekend.
