Further to the previous post, I have a few
empty cards in the ephemera stash, and it's worth a quick look at them if only
to get them up here!
Hard to know what the contents were exactly
as the card would seem to indicate vehicles only, but knowledge of these sets
would suggest a few figures were almost certainly included, probably in the Jeep
& Cannon blister, maybe six-eight figures?
Also, it has a damaged code number, but we
know this generation of card tended to have the first two digits as a 'prefix'
code indicating the price point, so it's probably (but not necessarily) 3923?
As if to highlight the question marks
above, this set has been recorded by Arlin Tawser as 1431
- Pillbox Attack - WWII Pillbox, halftrack, cannon, 12 US Infantry foot. Which certainly equates to the
items which came with it, but as you can see mine's coded 3925, not 1431,
so Giant clearly didn't have hard and
fast 'rules', or - if they did - they didn't follow them!
Giant
also made novelty items aplenty, and this is one of them. I may have the badges
somewhere, but can't remember, nor can I say with any certainty whether they
were simple paper stickers, or self-adhesive fabric. If they turn up I'll put
them on the home blog for a bit of nostalgic fun.
I love
the way they've written "T" Shirts . . . Yeah, the new funky t-shirts, look, people are calling them that, I've
seen it in the press hence the double quotation marks, they're a real thing now,
cool and groovy!
This was
on the dongle, I think I took it in around 2010 as the old Fuiji Finepix was failing, so it's
not the best but they came in as one lot, so I shot them before I put them with
the others, and it gets them out of the way!
An hour or two later . . .
. . . here's another one from the dongles, i think it's from my old imageshack account? You can see with both these how the middle three wheels lift of and compare the various barrels again.
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But is it Giant?
Oooowhyes! Everything above was produced by the Giant Plastics Corporation of New York, New York!
