A GIANT UPDATE: The GIANT Spaceship

As popular as GIANT HO scale toys were back in the day, I have to scratch my head as to why they didn't produce more of some of their items. You can get their forts fairly readily (or at least repops from other manufacturers using the original tooling), American Civil War limbers and cannon are very common, Roman (Greek) chariots are readily available. Even the Viking ships are usually available on fleaBay, but the space series had two pieces that are nearly impossible to find: the spaceship and the flying saucer! Go figure. The spaceship doubles as a container designed to hold the space figures and has an opening hatch underneath. It measures: 6.5" (16.51cm) H x 2.375" (6.03cm) W (fin-to-fin) 2.125" (5.39cm) diameter (at widest part of hull)

Here a GIANT spaceman is posed next to the ship he arrived in.

As this is just a cylinder with fins, I dispensed with the twelve-view photo essay.

The access hatch at the bottom is tricky to open and shows cut marks from people trying to pry it open.

 

TRAIN TIME: K-Line 1/48 Scale Diecast Heavy Hauler #K-8116 REESE'S Flatbed

K-Line had a series of tractor-trailer trucks called 'Heavy Haulers' and as part of that line offered  a total of seven different trucks with Hershey's graphics. In 1993 they introduced five of the seven with the other two being released later. The truck featured in this post is a flatbed loaded with pallets of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups - YUM! My favorite (and I have since become enamored of their Peanut Butter Sticks!). None of the boxes for the first five trucks are marked with a scale, however, the last truck in the series is clearly marked '1/48 scale' and it is the same size as the others. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

1993 catalog

A GIANT UPDATE: The Collection is Complete

Last year from October-December, I was covering GIANT Plastics Corp.'s (aka Giant of Hong Kong) line of HO scale space toys, but there was one piece that eluded me: their spaceship. I already had the VHTF flying saucer, and I had a spaceship in the collection which would work quite well with GIANT figures, but the original spaceship was a bear to find. Wellll, guess what? You got it - one became available with a host of figures and I snatched it up! The picture below shows the job lot I received. It was awesome having all the astronaut poses, as well as all the alien poses with multiples to boot! In the coming days I'll be featuring photo essays on the spaceship as well as the aliens because there were a bunch of poses in colors I didn't yet have. Be Blessed and Enjoy Life! Ed 

K-Line #K-40312 Hershey's Chocolate Town Suburban Station (1992)

Hershey's offered two different suburban stations for their line of Hershey's products:  

-#K-01032 Hershey's Whistling Station with Figures and Accessories with really light tan - almost white - walls, a green roof, beige figures, and of course a steam whistle. This station came in sets and was not available for separate sale

-#K-40312 Hershey's Chocolate Town Suburban Station with creamy yellow walls, a chocolate brown roof, and chocolate brown figures and accessories.

Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed 

Note: The box art appears to shows the station with the same light tan walls as the #K-01032 

Do you remember painting figures back in the day with Testor's 'flesh' paint? That thick, acky, paint that went on in blobs and looked absolutely nothing like anyone's skin tone that I knew! That's what these remind me of 😄