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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Showing posts with label No. 982. Show all posts
Showing posts with label No. 982. Show all posts

Tuesday 29 March 2022

Giant Set No.982 Chariot Race 59¢ 1963

So to the third of my contiguously numbered 1962/3 Giant Roman sets, purchased from Mr. Opie about 16-years ago, with this one we ditch the 'Legion' for some extreme sports - vegan crown to the winner, hoofy-death with tyre-marks to the loser!

1963; 59¢; Chariot Race; Blister Pack; Blister Pack Toy Soldiers; Britains Trojans; But Is It Giant; But Is It Giant?; butisitgiant.blogspot.com; Carded Rack Toy; Chariot Race 59¢; Circa 1963; Giant; Giant Blister Pack; Giant Or What; Giant Romans; Giant Set No.982; Giant Trojans; Made in 1963; Marx Romans; No.982 Chariot Race; Set No.982; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Dotted-line guy had the day off! Otherwise it's clearly part of the same line. As the Marx 'influencer' was the Ben Hur sets, it's fitting that we have a teeny-tiny clone/take on it here, with three standard Giant chariots (four horse, non-articulated chassis) and the three figures needed.

1963; 59¢; Chariot Race; Blister Pack; Blister Pack Toy Soldiers; Britains Trojans; But Is It Giant; But Is It Giant?; butisitgiant.blogspot.com; Carded Rack Toy; Chariot Race 59¢; Circa 1963; Giant; Giant Blister Pack; Giant Or What; Giant Romans; Giant Set No.982; Giant Trojans; Made in 1963; Marx Romans; No.982 Chariot Race; Set No.982; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;

"S'mine-now, s'all mine!"

Two red's and a yellow chariot body, with contrasting coloured overlay frets with the fancy, decorative stuff. We know they are/were based on the Marx set because of that fret (which varies between clones and is the best way to ID different sources) and the weird spiky stuff on the front of the cross-bar - which is more of a stabby-spear/de-heading blade arrangement on the originals.

1963; 59¢; Chariot Race; Blister Pack; Blister Pack Toy Soldiers; Britains Trojans; But Is It Giant; But Is It Giant?; butisitgiant.blogspot.com; Carded Rack Toy; Chariot Race 59¢; Circa 1963; Giant; Giant Blister Pack; Giant Or What; Giant Romans; Giant Set No.982; Giant Trojans; Made in 1963; Marx Romans; No.982 Chariot Race; Set No.982; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Horses are all the same brown batch, and marking are almost impossible to work out, but they will be genuine Giant 'Smoothies' of one sub-type or another. And we get the Marx knock-off spearman and two of Britains finest (Ulysses) as crew. Both the ex-Marx figure and the chariot wheels are the same brown as the horses - when trying to sort all these HK small-scales, exact shade is as important as markings sometimes for tying things in together!

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But is it Giant?

Sure as the other two, but I think it might be Boysie-Boy's now!