'Lido' wagons, by Herett Gilmar Toys

Like an idiot, while I took lots of images of the wagons, including some distance shots of multiples in their blister, I forgot to shoot the whole card, which is now in storage, where it has been since 2021, it literally came-in, got shot on the bedspread, and went off with all the carded Hong Kong small-scale.

 

Because it needs re-shooting properly, I'll just shove the images up here with the odd caption, and we'll look at it again another day! It seems to have been called 'Wild West' and was marked with the carousel HG [over] Toys logo in the left corner, H-G Toys in the right corner and a full-title consumer panel in the middle, all along the bottom edge of the blister card, which was heat-welded, not stapled.

 

Hard-bodied shop-wagon, or jail?

 

Two-wheeled buggy / cart, or horse-carriage.

 

Stagecoach.

 

Covered Wagon.

 

Similar to the early Giant 'stepped' wagons, but actually a heavier sculpt added to the bog-standard Crescent-copy wagon of most Hong Kong small scale output. What sets these apart from most other Hong Kong wagons, including Giant, is the diminutive drivers, with their Airfix or Moorstone-style sculpting (both probably the work of Nibblet, originally), and the slightly more diligent attempt at the draw-bars / horse-furniture.

 

Buckboard / Open wagon

 

The horse is 'Lido' in my horse ID listing, it's also Moorstone-esque.

 

However, a set of four horses which I call 'Longmane' are included, with four riders, all non-Giant sculpts of Indians, all taken from Britains. A quite distinctive Hong Kong horse with a wide (deep?) sculpted mane of long parallel striations, with a small dip where the headstall strap / crown piece (? Googling wildly!) goes through it. Probably using the old Giant 'Smoothie' as a base, it's easy to tell them apart.

Taken from an old evilBay sale, back in 2012, these have painted manes, so could be Lido or another branding, there's a painted-mane one on Kent Sprecher's Lido page, but it's a loose one, while his carded set is such a small thumbnail you can't tell if they are painted or not, but if both HG and Lido carried them, I dare say someone else did too!

The 'Lido' horse is unmarked, the 'Longmane's are marked Hong Kong, along the flat top of the body cavity, in quite crude, but readable lettering, reading from head to tail, the wagon mark is self-explanatory in the above shot! And I'll try to get the 'Longmane' article up next.

 

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But is it Giant
 

Nope! In fact, I suspect most of the time, it's not even Lido!