Dillon-Beck Wannatoy Art Deco Styled Sedan - Blue/Red HP (1945 to early '50s)

According to "PLASTIC TOYS Dimestore Dreams of the '40s & '50s" by Bill Hanlon, this was one of the few plastic toy cars available in the immediate postwar period. The war in the Pacific had ended in September 1945 and with Christmas right around the corner, toy companies were scrambling to re-tool to peacetime mode. This Art Deco inspired sedan by Dillon-Beck turned out to be a hot product and sold over a million pieces by Christmas 1945 alone! It measures 3.125" (7,93cm) L x 1.5" (3.81cm) W x 1" (2,54cm) H

Ed

Wannatoy Bus - Yellow HP (Customized)

Here's one of the harder vintage hard plastic toy buses to latch on to, the Wannatoys bus. Mine was originally in yellow hard plastic but somewhere during its life it got customized to what you see here. As I've said in previous posts, I don't mind it when vintage toys were customized back in the day by a young owner wanting to personalize their stuff, it gives the toy a special appeal to me. It measures 5 1/4" (13.33cm) L x 1 3/4" (4.44cm) W x 1 3/8" (3.49cm) H and looks nice on an O-gauge toy train layout but is still a tad small. Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina

You can just barely make out that this was originally yellow

Here's some comparison shots

(L) Thomas Toy (M) Renwal (R) Wannatoy

Playing With My Toys - Military Convoy 14 Oct 2017

Soooo, I've got all these toys I've been blogging just sittin' around doing nothing! In a rare period of  'me' time last week I decided to pull out most of my smaller military vehicles and see what I could do. Using the display base originally built for my American Civil War toys, I re-purposed it into a convoy route. There's approximately 135+ vehicles shown here (I didn't even bother to include the larger MPC stuff) and, using the photos, decided to put together a short video as well. It was fun being able to pull these out of boxes and off shelves and just play for a change - I mean, looking at 'em is cool and all that, but sometimes even collector's just wanna play! Enjoy! Opa Fritz and Oma Bettina