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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Festival - Festival Products Incorporated - 'Good Guys'

Festival Products Inc.,
Skokie
Illinois
USA

Flourished mid-1960's

Seem to have imported and re-packed the 1st version Timpo swoppets, there is a chance that they may have been importing someone else's figures, but they were swoppets, they were British and the card art has one figure (behind the anti-tank gun-barrel) clearly based on the 1st version paratrooper holding a Sten-gun by the magazine.

Sets dated 1966 and large-enough for 6 figures at a squeeze, but probably a three or four figure assortment? It's possible they also carried the US-only issues of Timpo 'Green Berets' with a beret matched to the body colour of the 1st version British Infantry (as the Australian slouch-hats were)?

Listing
Good Guys (Timpo 1st version swoppets)
- Crusaders
- Knights
- Cowboys
- Indians
- 7th Cavalry
- Army (? Could be US, German, British, all three, or the Green Berets)
- Accessories (? Could be larger-packs with wagons or just trees, cacti etc...)

What They Say
"Unbreakable Plastic Interchangeable Parts"

What This Entry Needs
Anything you've got!

1 Festival Products Inc. Header Card Blister Pack Logo 1966 204706 1966; 7th Cavalry; Accessories; Army; Blister Pack; Bodies; Cowboys; Crusaders; Faces; Festival Blister Pack; Festival Header Card; Festival logo; Good Guys; Hats; Header Card; Indians; Interchangeable Parts; James Chase Collection; Knights; Made In Britain; Printed in USA; Skokie Illinois; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Timpo GI's; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys; Unbreakable Plastic; Weapons;
Logo/Brand Mark

1966; 7th Cavalry; Accessories; Army; Blister Pack; Bodies; Cowboys; Crusaders; Faces; Festival Blister Pack; Festival Header Card; Festival logo; Good Guys; Hats; Header Card; Indians; Interchangeable Parts; James Chase Collection; Knights; Made In Britain; Printed in USA; Skokie Illinois; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Timpo GI's; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys; Unbreakable Plastic; Weapons; 2 Festival Products Inc. Header Card Blister Pack Backing-card
Header-card/hanger from blister-pack dated 1966
 
Addendum
January 2026 - Somebody sent a set of these to Plastic Warrior magazine (issue 201, pp32), confirming they are 1st-version Timpo figures, his set was three ACW Union/7th Cavalry foot troopers. Accompanied by the message "...never seen before . . . never heard of...", I would suggest he or she find Small Scale World, where these have been sat here, since 2018! The card illustrated in PW is subject specific (Wild West, black & green artwork), so it can now be assumed the above example is a WWII one.
Posted by Hugh Walter at 08:48
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