Cut Price Collectables

Twelve years ago, I blogged about a couple of small inexpensive toy planes I had got when I was about 7, which had been appened to my Spacex fleet backnin the day, due to their suze and the fact that one was an X-15 Rocket Plane. I recall distinctly getting them from a little seaside shop in Gronant, North Wales. I know this for a fact as we never really went anywhere else for the main annual holiday and it was a lovely little holiday camp on the coasr near Prestatyn and Rhyl.

The toys were single piece castings with a heavy die cast base and a variation on superfast wheels underneath, so they fit and ran neatly on most tracks.

There were as I recall, three different models, X-15, Lockheed Starfighter and unusually, a Saab Viggen. At the time I got one of each and recalled them being sold loose from a counter top box.

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 Since that time, way back in 1969, I have found another loose X-15 and an orange Viggen, which surprised me as I don't recall it at all. Both the fighters have Royal Canadian Airforce livery and the Viggen retains the Swedish aurforce badge on the nose too.

Just this week, I was amazed to see a whole counterbox of planes on ebay, which I bought. The toys are called 'Sky Slashers' and aside from 'Empire Made' on the bix and 'Hong Kong' on the die cast bases, theres no distinguishing marks. Its clearly old stock, as the top of the box has been opened, but none of the planes were sold. The box says 'low friction wheels to fit all standard tracks' so they were clearly aimed at Hot Wheels and Matchbox collectors.