Pharaohs and Gods . . . just'a quickie,
these are copies of the Safari set
we've seen a couple of times now one way or another, and while I bought them
bagged 'NOS', it was obvious the set had seen better days and several sets of
staples had visited the header-card, so; as it's both 'modern production' and the
Mexican equivalent of a China rack-toy, I felt no compunction in getting them
out for a box-tick!
The front and back of the header-card; a
high point of the clip-artist's Photoshop efforts and no mistake! We have a
colony of pyramids, some movie undead characters who definitely aren't in the
bag and a loose camel, just I case we haven't worked out where the set's set! Manufactured
by Magic Toys and distributed by SHS Toys, we've got two new tags out of
it!
They actually have a charm which leaves
them with an apparent age they just have't earned, being crudely painted/washed
over a softish silver PVC-vinyl (a couple are a cream or black substrate) rubber type material, very flashy, and somewhat
worn (whether in the bag, or due to the several removals from the bag in the
past I will ever know), they look like they might be from the 1950's and
gum-ball machine prizes at that!
I can't compare them, as I have the other
sets as they appeared over the last two years (Safari donors, two K&M/Wild
Republic sets and the recent Hing Fat
set from Peter Evans), due to the current storage situation/excuse! So we'll return to all-five one day for a full comparison
of them together. Oh, and there are no actual Pharaohs in the set, just a
wrapped-up dead one! For all their pirated daftness I quite like them!