Hasbro 'Fearless Fireman' Game - Update

Back on 17 Oct 2010 Toys & Stuff featured the 'Fearless Fireman' game from Hassenfield Brothers, aka Hasbro, but at the time we only had what came inside the box. Now, nearly a year later, we can present to you the box it all came in! The artwork is both colorful and wonderful - full of 1950s era childhood whimsy. We're all old enough to realize that fire fighting is a serious business, but when you're a kid playing fireman, it's just different, it's fun. The artwork really 'pops' and the large box draws you to it. I'm glad to be able to finally share this with you! Enjoy!

 Quite frankly, I'm not sure what the original packaging arrangement looked like and cannot determine what went in that lower left corner. Were there more components to the set that I am as yet unaware of?

Hasbro 'Fearless Fireman' Game

Today I've got a ton of pictures and scans for your enjoyment.  Our pick is Hasbro's 'Fearless Fireman' game from 1957.  It's actually a hybrid toy: kids could play the game of fireman, spinning the wheel and taking turns  OR use the pieces as a stand alone toy making up the rules as they go along.  Unfortunately I don't have the original box nor all the figures, but there's enough presented here to give you a real good idea.  Also, I have included high res scans of the building pieces for use as project material.  The tabs and slots were all edited out of the scans and by printing these out on self-adhesive backed photo paper, you can then mount them to either foam core board or cardboard and make your own building!  The set comes with three bright red, hard plastic fire engines and a multitude of brightly colored firemen and civilians, also in hard plastic.  The ends of the figures outstretched arms fit into holes in the back of the firemen and slots on the feet allow the figures to be posed either in the open windows or on the rungs of the fire engine ladders.  In the photos you'll notice a gray fire engine and some cream colored firemen.  These are from Marx and, for our Marx collecting friends, were included in the photo to help show size comparisons.  This building would also look great on a 3-rail O-gauge toy train layout and I've included photos showing it in place on my home layout.  Enjoy!