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Saturday, 27 March 2010

GREAT BRITAINS

Whilst contemplating my 1960's mystery miniature planes I've remembered how much I liked Britains toys. Those metal bases were way cool. The two sets I remember most clearly are the Police Rider (I remember a different box though) and the little Mortar diorama, both pictured below. Seems like yesterday. Anyone else have any favourite Britains?
Pictures: Ebay

3 comments:

Spectrum Steve said...

Oh yeah I had that mortar set but my favorite was the Speedway bikes as speedway was very popular in Glasgow (my Mum & Dad were Glasgow Tigers fans when I was a kid) mind you Woodsy, given your love of the martial arts I would have figured you'd have had the Britains Karate figures (I did!)

WOTAN said...

one of my favourites was the Kettenkraftrad - halftrack/motorbike and the Kubelwagen. My very special favourite was the Bandetta Elastic Band Gun though!

WOODSY said...

Hmm, looks familiar that Britains Karate set Spectrum S. Alas, my cheesey memory let's me down. They've got one at Gasoline Alley Antiques
http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/images/Playset%20Page/britains-karate.JPG

And I confess to never having had the Bandetta pleasure Wote. I'll google that one!

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