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Toy Vehicle Alert!

From: Jonathan Jarrard <jjarrard@f...>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 13:14:56 -0400
Subject: Toy Vehicle Alert!

I went to a Super K-Mart over lunch and found a new 55 piece military
playset (Combat Zone) on sale there for only $10.

All vehicles are dark green hard plastic with moving parts.  All scale
references are to 28mm.  Included are:

1.  Military semi towing Patriot launcher (slightly underscale) which
has a button that makes dorky laser sounds.  Comes with a full load of
four missiles.

2.  Stationary vertical missile launcher with very large two-stage
missile and various accessories.  Probably very underscale, but still
interesting.

3.  M-60A? MBT w/enclosed MG cupola.  Fairly nice, just about right for
28mm.

4.  HMMV w/removable cargo section cover.  Also includes a fairly nice
pintle-mounted M2HB HMG.  Slightly oversized but not bad.

5.  Various outsized soldiers, probably useless.

6.  An assortment of very nice road signs and barricades.

7.  Barrels, road cones (way too big), rocks, 3-piece sandbag barricade,
5+ piece interlocking brick wall (don't know what that's supposed to be
for)

8.  An M60-based BRIDGE LAYER!!! (When's the last time you saw one of
those.	In scale with the tank.

9.  Ammo boxes, jerry cans (big), barbed wire fence sections, and other
STUFF (I don't have it in front of me.

Everything is dark green and marked U.S. Army with slightly cheesy
stickers.  Fortunately, these look like they will fall off even without
help.

Just a friendly tip for those of you who are looking for cheap models.


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