Stad’s Amazing Figure Collection I am back with some more items from my collection. I get a chance from time to time to see what is in the collection and go I got that? Some figures I remember where I got them and others just pop up. So we will look at some items I may have shown before and others that are new.
Blue Box made a series of hard plastic historical figures. I have been able to get a few of them over the years. The first one I acquired was a Robin Hood. I got that figure at Sandown one of the big shows in the UK. A dealer had a big box of figures which I grabbed. The only article I backlink gives a little more information on expeience.
Looking at the these two figures the Napoleon figure looks like he has a beard. On the Sir Francis Drake I figured someone painted it.
Stad’s Amazing Figure Collection Trojan
On my first trip to the UK, I came upon the above figures. At first, I thought did Marx do a special version of their Roy Rogers figures. What I
They copied Marx 60mm cowboy fighter and downsize him to 45mm! Why they did not downsize him to 54mm we will never know.
Stad’s Amazing Figure Collection Odds Ends
I may have shown this figure before. Where I got him I do not remember him. It must have been in Europe. The reason he was purchase was due to the pose. As I mention before I did stories with my figures as a child. He would been either a villain of a sidekick.
This figure I may have purchased from Erno Telgi, he was the first German dealer I had met. He was set up a show that Norman Joplin had at night. Erno was an interesting guy he was a snuff sniffier.He freak Laurie the one time he did in front of her.
Erno came up with some interesting items. The above figure maybe Jim Hardy from Tales of Welles Fargo. It looks like he was taken out the mold too soon.
Many of BB series historical figures made derivated or base in other brand figures recast to make looks as characters or base in actual made by others.Yet no quite copies direct.
I have over dozen then and will send photos soon.the figures are not common at all and plastic stiff fragile made hard to find intact often.
the Troyan copies are a nice way to get many former Marx 60 mm in the 54mm match range.
yet in my opinion they only copied some of the Swansea Marx factory 60mm mold poses .
and detail is poor versus original plus they have variation and differ in some detail.
I first saw then in and old PW issue.
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The Blue Box Historical series was first issued in 1968 as factory painted figures. I have one or two examples.
They were reissued in the 1970s when the toy soldier hobby was at its height in a metallic finish to resemble die cast ranges such as Lone*Star “Metallions” and pewter figures like Hornby.
The Blue Box Davy Crockett is the image of John Wayne