[WWI] Did anyone else have one?

[Dave Calhoun]

I never had one of those, but I did have a couple of cool things that I have
never seen since.  In the early 1970's I had snoopy's Sopwith Camel, a
Monogram snap tite kit with a yellow Camel with red cowl, a Snoopy pilot
figure and it was powered by an electric motor. have not seen them in years
but seem to pop up on Ebay for around $100 or so every now and then.
Another cool one was the MPC Baloon buster kit, had a vacuform base with a
baloon sitting on the ground, a set of Airfix German infantry and a Spad
(believe it was the Airfix Spad VII but supposed to be a Luke plane if I
remember correctly) have not seen one of those in years either.
Dave

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I?m having a bit of a writers block at work.  They say one of the best ways
to overcome that is to just type till what you need starts flowing.  My mind
is so blocked that I had a flashback to the happier days of my much, much,
MUCH younger youth.

I recall a Christmas in the early to mid 60?s that I received a WW-I
airplane play set.  It may have been a marketing response to ?Snoopy and the
Red Barron? released in 1966.

The planes came in a display case like box.  I recall clear plastic on the
front and top with the models, two all-yellow SPADS and two all-red (what
else?) Fokker Triplanes arranged in a diorama like poses.  There were some
other soldiers and equipment in the box too.

I played with those models for years.

Anyone else remember having something like this, or am I on a post lunch
hallucination?

MrT
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