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 Posted - May 23 2009 : 11:24:10 AM
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The first tank car I got in a set in the '60's, the second I bought yesterday and is missing the car info. Both are diecast frames...
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Posted - May 23 2009 : 12:45:36 PM
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Nice catch; I have the same variants. I think there is one where the extra data is only on the right and not left. I've yet to see a Cities car with the fall data typical of the earliest tanker roadnames.
Many serious Tyco collectors love to bash the brown-box era, but redbox was not without fault. At the same time where Tyco started introducing new car styles, hong kong production, and revised the red box stylings, they began cheapening everything else. You get all sorts of transitional combos in terms of cast/plastic frames, metal/plastic and screw/snap-in trucks, thick/thin axles, and more/less data.
The tankers were some of the earliest victims of cost cutting. It's very common to find redbox roadnames with the minimal data and cruddy paint that was a dubious hallmark of brown-box offerings.
In my estimations, the worst (or best if you prefer for interesting, odd combos) time for redbox was 1967-1970; when the Tyco logo was top-centered in a level, rounded breakout (instead of the previous lower-right corner in an angled, boxy breakout).
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