Looking into Arco's Play Kid toys is fun and I've come to realise Star Wars figure collectors like them a lot, especially knockoff fans.
Arco's SpaceWar range of small figures are as prized as a Wampa's doo doo and collecting them all would be a real challenge I bet.
Here's Arco's little Darth Vader effort. He even gets a TV camera for filming his own rise to power and an mechanical arm for keeping his millions of fans at arm's length.
I love the golden robot C3P0 on the header. Did they do a R2D2?
Do you collect Spacewar figures readers?
Alongside Arco's more famous Spacewar are their more generic Play Kid sets. I've looked at the space ones before on MC but here's a different line, construction workers in the hilariously titled box, On The Job!
Seen on Ebay, everything looks as it should be and I for one would have loved this in the Sixties, when I suppose Arco's equivalent back then would have been someone like Blue Box and their beautiful three-layered window boxed sets of tippers, trucks and workmen.
Did you like construction worker and vehicle sets as a kid readers? Blue Box? Arco? Who?
You would have been lucky to buy this in the '60's Woodsy, Arco wasn't fully formed until 1971/2, prior to that the Rosenbergs owned the New York import jobber Giant, with a two year hiatus while they co-opted with the Gardener's PMC.
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Cheers Hugh. I do like Arco stuff. Then again Giant stuff is great too.
DeleteI’m pretty sure the figure in that picture IS the 3PO knockoff, not Vader.
ReplyDeleteWhen I think construction sets I think of the one my little brother had, Tog’l from Mattel: https://clickamericana.com/wp-content/uploads/LIFE-Nov-7-1969-Mattel-toys-5-770x478.jpg
You're right Baron, it is their C3PO! I do like the look of Tog'l!
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