Rob's Multiple Toymakers 100 Cars of the World

Woodsy,

Circa 1970, I ordered an item called "100 HO Scale Cars" from America's Hobby Center in New York City. For 99 cents plus shipping!

 Hoping they were discontinued EKO or VIKING automobiles, I was sorely disappointed when I received in the mail a bag filled with one-piece, brightly-colored plastic toy vehicles, labeled "100 Cars of the World", by Multiple Toymakers!

After I got over my initial disappointment, I learned to love these homely little toys, and painted them up to look as "realistic" as possible.

An eclectic mix of sports and utility vehicles, both contemporary and antique, the big downside to these models was the embossing of the vehicle name on the backside or trunk. I tried to file off the names on a couple of the vehicles, with disastrous results, so I left the rest intact.

Here are pix of some of the painted ones I managed to save. Crude, but useful for background settings. The photos of the original bagged item are from eBay.

Rob C

USA

Multiple Toymakers Vans

Century 21 Toys borrowed Multiple Toymakers design for their Topo Gigio Ice Cream Van.

There were lots of Multiple Vans to choose from.

Here are two more by the great Multiple Toymakers.

Hot Dog King.

Mickey Mouse Ice Cream Van.

Multiple Toymakers Pizza Delivery Van & Boat

I love this I saw on eBay.

Yet a other variation on a classic design.

The Multiple Toymakers N.Y. Pizza King van and boat!

I mean, wow! 

Century 21 Toys fans may recall the similar Topo Gigio ice cream van.

Do you like them?

Ed's Golden Astronaut SpaceX Boxed Sets

Woodsy,

Your recent post had me curious as just how many boxed Spacex/Golden Astronaut sets I had so I herded them all together into a folder for future reference and here they are.

From Vegas Base

Ed

HI YA! OUR CUSTOM MULTIPLE TOYMAKERS KUNG FU TARGET SET DONE!

  I'm pleased to show you our latest team effort readers, a custom Kung Fu Target Set finished.

Here it is booted and suited.

Bill created the fabulous graphics based on the original card by Multiple Toymakers released in 1975. It required some custom artistic licence on Bill's part on the 100 section, as the original was hidden from view and no loose card could be found online so it could be seen.

I had fun sorting out the toys and the blister; the horse and rider were from my bits box and needed a little tinkering; the toy revolver was from the local farmshop and got a lick of paint and a white grip; the target card clasps were plug fuse covers from the DIY box [the target cards were part of the backing card and had to be cut out originally in 1975].

As always the blister was tricky and in the end I used the original blister off the farmshop cowboy set I bought and cut it up to create two suitable shapes to glue down.

Here's a comparison with the the original toy; 1975 on the left and our 2025 custom on the right.

I forgot about the dart! Doh!

Hope you like this latest effort from ..... "Moonbase International"!

Toy Fu 2

I've done a more accurate draft mock-up of my custom Kung Fu Target Set with suitably sized panels like the original by Multiple Toymakers.

Hope you like it.

I picked up a small cowboy gun from the farm shop, shortened the barrel, painted it and glued on a new white grip trim.

The card target holders are old fuse covers painted yellow.

I like the horse and rider the most.

I cut up an old Leeds Film Festival programme for the two mock pictures and title.

The wild boar panel is from Razorback for our Looey, who worked on the film!

Here's a plastic bag over it.

Bill will kindly fettle the card art later this month I'm hoping and then, hi ya!

I seek not to know all the answers but to understand the questions!