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 Posted - September 25 2006 : 4:43:04 PM
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I have a Tyco Truck Terminal still sealed in the box...I may have gotten it from eBay...I cant remember. It is blue instead of brown , is there any reason for this?
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Posted - September 25 2006 : 7:05:09 PM
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| I don't know that much about when Tyco made its different products so correct me if I'm wrong, but Tyco packaged its items in blue boxes back in the 50's, red boxes in the 60's and brown boxes 1971+.
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Posted - October 04 2006 : 10:37:48 PM
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| Tyco also had blue boxes in 92-93 ( final tyco production as IHC now has blue box version of all tyco kits as they bought the molds and are producing a lot of tyco's kits under iIHC) year which seems to fit your description of truck terminal. Dacheez is also correct that yco had bluebox in 60's but i do not recall truck terminal for that time frame. The box is white with a blue border for 92-93 kits. There isn't many of these kits under tyco. Most are the brown box version=white box brown borders.
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Posted - October 06 2006 : 12:26:13 PM
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Seems the cheaper, final-run train sets went to blue trim boxes as well. There are two on ebay right now. The thing about those sets is that NONE of the contents match the box art, and the cars are not invidually packaged. But the master box is blue as opposed to brown.
I don't ever remember seeing (post-50's) Tyco cars/locos in blue boxes. However, I do remember buying the Tyco blue-box building kits when I was first getting "serious" in the hobby around 1990-92.
If you ask me (OK so you didn't lol), Tyco never got enough credit for their building kits. The cars and locos may have been middling at times, but the buildings were great. The center street series with all the extra detailing bits was especially good (even if the buildings themselves were a bit similar, they still showed you how you could "kitbash" from the basics). Even if they were made by Pola, Tyco at least got them over here cheap.
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Posted - November 01 2006 : 12:47:12 PM
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I agree with GoingInCirclez aka Tony L., that TYCO only offered train sets and building kits with the Blue Box trim.
And technically, the trains sets do not include individual boxes. The train sets of that late era, as many of you know, featured the outside lid with a design that at times suggested the outline of what you might image were individual boxes. However, inside was just a large white thin plastic tray where each piece rested.
There are numerous TYCO Late Era Blue Box kits. And as pointed out, IHC has inherited and continues to utilize this design.
I think for simple labeling, my suggestion is to keep the Blue Box offerings of the late '80s and early '90s amongst the Brown Box Era. The box design is the same and offerings are most the same too. I see the late Blue Box as a sub category of the Brown Box Era.
The 1950s Blue Box items, I woulrd refer to as Turquoise Box items. So in my book, Mantua introduces the TYCO name with Turquoise Box items in the '50s, goes to Red Box for the '60s. Consolidated Foods enters with Brown Boxes for the '70s and TYCO Industries continues the Brown Boxes for the '80s and morphs into Blue Box in the sub-Brown Box for the '90s.
Clear as Mud???
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Tony Cook
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http://ho-scaletrains.net
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Posted - November 01 2006 : 1:08:09 PM
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Here's more MUD for ya-
Bernie Paul, owner of IHC in Philadelphia, acquired the Tycokit molds (all older Pola/AHM molds, by the way) and was *printing* "Tycokit" boxes with the Tyco logo and BLUE trim as early as 1991. He added the IHC herald sometime in 1993-1994. I asked him about this when I purchased an entire series of rolling stock, back in 1998. He had a small run of Tyco blue boxes, shipped 'em, had a graphic artist reset the plates for the boxes, and printed the new blue boxes w/IHC herald.
What everyone is seeing (or possibly has in their collection) is older, unreplenished stock from '91, prior to the IHC herald being added over the Tyco logo.
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Posted - November 07 2006 : 6:49:41 PM
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That would explain things then! IHC sure can make Tyco collectors nod their heads at times!
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