O is for Ocean Colour Robots

Or; should it be Ocean Friction Scene?!! A sort of follow-up to the recent follow-up which I shot at Sandown Park (courtesy of Adrian at Mercator) and then found in the HK trade catalogue Bill B put up on the Internet the other day, so nicely dating them to the mid-1980's.

'Trade' or 'display box' (also called stock, shop stock or counter display boxes) branded to Ocean and as colourful as you'd expect by the '80's; Little Robot and these are friction powered ('pull-back' motors) rather than the clockwork one's we've looked atpreviously.

1st Follow-up here.

Three designs, the red-ones appear to have lost their domes, but as it's a near mint set-up and all three were gone, but none of the blue-domes have gone AWOL, it may have been a factory thing, whether forgetfulness or a technical issue re their actually fitting over the heads - I can't say.

Coded 50-D (for 'display'?) on the box underside and seemingly a contract order for a Reed over here, there were colour variations and a variance in who got (or didn't!) which colour dome in the 1986 HKTDC toy catalogue/Year Book.