My older Brother had a beautiful board game when I was a kid in the Sixties.
Battle of the Little Big Horn.
It was made by Waddingtons of Leeds in the UK.
Despite the grim subject matter the box was gorgeous and one of my favourites.
The thing I loved the most were the plastic figures of cowboys and indians on horseback. They were great to play the game with.
I thought they were fantastic.
On BoardGameGeek they come a bit closer
/pic1143382.jpg)
Last year I posed the question as to whether they were made by Waddingtons or were they made by another company like Timpo or Britains? Did Waddingtons have the wherewithal to manufacture plastic figures like this?
The ever-knowledgable Hugh of Small Scale World provided the answer:
They were made (supplied) by Rojas e Malaret, so may be manufactured by someone like Pech or Reamsa
H
Best Blog on the subject;
H
Best Blog on the subject;
http://grandesbatallasdelmundo.blogspot.com/search/label/LITTLE%20BIG%20HORN
Have you got a version of this game readers?
Are the horses of the same origin as those issued by Multiple Toymakers for their Planet of the Apes carded and boxed sets does anyone know?
Like this cool rack toy Target Set I bought at the NEC about 18 years ago.
Here's another Apes horse close up
The horses are quite different, if only by size, I think the ape one is a copy or a US sculpt?
ReplyDeleteI love those MPC's, I buy them whenever I see them going cheap . . . so far I have managed three Corneilius's who just stand around chewing the fat like a Greek parliament!
H
Three Corneliuses, ha ha. That could be the title of a novel. I love those MPC POTA rack toys. Things of beauty Hugh.
DeleteMPC produced some wonderful plastic toys and sets. The Planet of the Apes target set is a beauty and an excellent piece to acquire. Really don't see many around at all, Woodsy :)
ReplyDeleteI had to get it when I saw it at Memorabilia circa 2000 Tone. It was mine for a while before forming a nice high point on my old toy stall. It was sub to own and yep, I haven't seen another since. I've seen a few Battle of the Little Big Horns games at car boots. They're vintage scarcities now if one turns up in Oxfam with a price tag to match. Like a lot of vintage games.
DeleteI wonder, Woodsy, is there any one particular toy you sold back then, which with hindsight, you wish you'd kept? I let some nice bits and piece go during various ebay feeding frenzies , in the past... and still curse the day :)
Deletesub? fun!
ReplyDelete