Odds Ends Part Four MPC Tank Haribo Figures Erwin starts this post of wuth some interesting information on the MPC Tank. Next I will show some Hairbo figures that are not bears. We will show a few other figures to round out the post.
Odds Ends Part Four MPC Tank Haribo Figures MPC Tank
Erwin has some interesting thoughts on the MPC tank. Here is what he said. MPC tank may had a valid historical real original tank design to be based on. While other two MPC armored track vehicles could resemble much later produced real vehicles or even one could possible pass as A M29 models A,B or C with mounted recoilless rifle cannon.
Odds Ends Part Four MPC Tank Haribo Figures Haribo
Haribo is a German candy company which started in 1920. Their candy notable gummi bears are sold around the world. With their candy they have offered figures. Here is a sample of the figures.
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Here we have two early English plastic figures. The figure on the left may be from Paramount. You can see the influence of Britains Herald cowboys. The man on the right is Taylor and sons. Prior to World War Two Taylor and been partner with Barrett a brother in law.Taylor and Sons have a wide range of plastic civilan figures.
Strange this bit about the MPC tank should come up now. I work in FT Benning and drive by the armor yard where armored vehicles for the museum get refitted. This very tank is out in the yard now. I’ll see if I can get a pic of it. Half of the time it’s got a tarp over it if they are not working on it.
Some of the M-60 variants had a turret design like the MPC tank, as well. Seems like the M-60A2 and M-60A1E2 is what I can find. All of this stuff is down here, just slowly being refitted for display.
It always reminded me of the M60A2 – which seemed funny as I had the toy over ten years before the A2 came out. I don’t reckon I learned about the T-92 until about ten years ago.
Yes while the turret may in far way resemble the rare later M60A2 version, the chassis with slanted/angle alike later Sheridan light tank made style is very close to MPC and if have a upper view of turret will notice how close it is to T-92.For years only thing i could get close was with turret of M60A2 till i saw the IDEAL kit version T-92 from where the MPC resemble so much .
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http://www.military-today.com/tanks/m60a2_images.htm
In above link (hope could be open)you can see how far different is the M60A2 chassis and even turret versus MPC and T-92
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In following link if could be open you may see how differ the M60A2 from T-92 and MPC based copy in my view.
http://www.military-today.com/tanks/m60a2_images.htm
I’ve been up close on both of them. The MPC tank does look more like the T-92. The funny thing is that the T-92 is rather small and unimposing as tanks go, but the MPC tank would lead you to believe it was based on a behemoth of a tank. I sort of with I had kept some of them in my collection now, but I’m still not sure how I would use them.
The ones from my childhood ended up in my kid brothers’ toy boxes and then – pieces… I did manage to pick up a few in a playset (or something like that) I picked up at Toys r Us in the late 80s or early 90s – I mainly wanted the bunker, but the re-issues (copies? recasts? whatever?) of the MPC GIs and Germans on the cover were a bonus – it turned out they had Timmee WW2 GIs and that was an even bigger kick. I did manage to pick up a smaller set at K-Mart that had MPC trucks, jeeps and the log emplacement – it DID have MPC GIs so it was all good.
Anyway, the bunker playset had the tanks in both green and gray – I figured if I squint my eyes the turrets almost resemble a German Pz – so they stood in for those tanks in lieu of anything else until CTS and FoV came out with better stuff. I figured, they were my battles and I wasn’t into taking pics and sharing – the internet wasn’t even big yet, so…
I may not include them in any more of my battles, I’m more in to 18th and 19th Century anyway lately, but they still hold a place of honor and affection in my collection.