Spin-a-Win. This is a very unusual Captain Scarlet Board Game.
I wasn't able to google it all, neither a reference nor an image!
I first saw it years ago in 2009 on the long-established Eagle Transporter Forum and that is where it still is, I checked! Perhaps these are the only images of this game anywhere?
Have a look. They're about half way down. Look for Spin-a-Win. You don't have to be a forum member to look I don't think.
https://www.eagletransporter.com/forum/showthread.php?p=99168
I've seen many board games at toy fairs and online too including all of the Captain Scarlet board games both from the Sixties and the Nineties. You can even get brand-new facsimiles of the classic Sixties Waddington's board game from nostalgia shops these days like this online sweets shop! https://www.sweetandnostalgic.co.uk/captain-scarlet---retro-family-board-game-10222-p.asp [although this one does have a different cover to one I know].
No such luck with the Spin-a-Win game. No modern copies. Its just not well known at all. I couldn't find it in my Anderson collectables book 'bible' by Dennis Nicholson from Oz. Nor could I find it on the Supermerchandisation Extra list on the cool Andersonic Fanzine website http://www.andersonic.co.uk/page7.htm
However, the Spin-a-Win board Game IS listed on the old Super M reference site Captain Scarlet Merchandise but unlike many of the collectables listed there are two things missing, a picture and the name of the maker. http://lester.demon.nl/superm/scarlet/merchand.html
I can't find any other Spin-a-Win games either. You would have thought another TV show got the same treatment but it doesn't look like it. Or?
This really is a mysterious item. I think the Mysterons must have made it.
Like I always ask, has anyone got one? Who made it?
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Spinning Game For All Ages. The Playing Instructions sheet says to obtain a Super Masters Spinners Badge collect three coupons from Spin-A-Win games, and send them to Thomas Salter Ltd, so I would assume that is the maker ? It lists four games in the series: Captain Scarlet; Football; Ski Run; and Space Flight. It also says to Watch out for Further Games in this Exciting Series. Board games are not my field, and even after reading the instructions I am still not clear on how the game actually worked. Also, did Captain Scarlet ever actually fly an Angel Interceptor, as he does in the game ?
ReplyDeleteFab Paul. I never even noticed any of that on the instructions! Thomas Salter eh! I loved them as a kid. they made the fantastic Explorers set with real binoculars and a water flask etc. I'll have a look for Thomas Salter Spin a Win now!
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