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Post by mrtc4w on Mar 16, 2009 8:08:16 GMT -6
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Post by Starry Eyes on Mar 16, 2009 8:10:00 GMT -6
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Post by donculley on Mar 16, 2009 8:26:47 GMT -6
I think there was a lot of ripoffs going on in japan back then. I have a plastic friction vw toy that is nearly identical to the Deal's 'Bug bomb". I have a couple of ZEE toys, one looks a bit like the Hot wheels hot heap, the other is the Silhouette . Both have huge Deals' wheels type tires on them .
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Post by BAD4GOOD <STAN> on Mar 16, 2009 13:14:51 GMT -6
Look at the others in the series....HHHmmmm.....
I see a few more of the familiar D/W styled cars were avalible back then (Ripped off versions)
Don...I too have a wind up bug and also a late 70's/early 80's style vette
( not like the Stink Ray)
Both of mine are red....neat items still though.....Stan
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Post by Yamahog on Mar 17, 2009 2:04:22 GMT -6
I have a plastic friction vw toy that is nearly identical to the Deal's 'Bug bomb". Care to post a pic? |
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Post by stilljustharley on Mar 17, 2009 2:54:30 GMT -6
Zee toys also did knockoffs of built up 1/8 bikes from the Revell range. I've seen the custom Honda and Chopped Hog on Ebay in the past but there may well be others.
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Post by donculley on Mar 17, 2009 8:05:56 GMT -6
I'll try to get a pic of the friction bug next to a BugBomb I have .I bought it at a second hand store. When I first saw it I thought it was built kit .
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Post by newoldskool on Mar 19, 2009 9:14:10 GMT -6
 so thats what mine is! i have a ripoff version of the deals wheels Zzzzzzz28 camaro that had friction wind-up wheels in it that rattled around so i took them out (they didn't work anyway) i got it for free at a garage sale i put it in the junk box and didn't think about it till i got on this site and saw a Zzzzzzz28 camaro and thought that might be it was. but i always wondered about the friction wheels inside it.   i painted it and added the rear slicks, wheely bars, and zoomie pipe ends it was origanily all orange will bad flame stickers i kept the rear wheels just in case they were colectible (so if anyone needs 'em PM me!)
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Post by donculley on Mar 19, 2009 9:21:16 GMT -6
Its amazing that there wasn't lawsuits filed against these companies back then.
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Post by newoldskool on Mar 19, 2009 9:26:24 GMT -6
no kidding! it is so ridiculus it is copyright infringement out the ying-yang!  o well >:(cheaters get your own ideas! |
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Post by hammerz on Mar 19, 2009 9:30:57 GMT -6
Not too long ago, about 1999, 2001 or so Tomica Tomy had some tiny R/C cars called BitcharG. Those was released by Hobbico as Microsizers. You can do a web search for them. Many of those was Japanese car models. But they have the same kind of look to them. They themselfs have had many knockoffs as well.
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Post by stilljustharley on Mar 19, 2009 10:48:09 GMT -6
The built up Bug Bomb also appeared under the Polistil banner in Europe and this is a direct copy, but I think it was licensed. I'm sure Trey knows the score on that one.
What's confusing is that Polistil also did a built up Citroen 2CV which has all the hall marks of a Deal design but it never appeared under the Revell banner.
One more for the styrene historians to ponder on.
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so thats what mine is!
o well >:(cheaters get your own ideas!