Palitoy Exhibition at Leicestershire Record Office

[Quickfire]

I e-mailed the Heritgae Council asking for more ainformation and offering to promote the exhibition through the site... f*ck all response.

Bastards. Time for a revolution in the UK. I'll drop by and lead it with if you want

"Slot every Soviet you see"
"Vrrrmmmm"
"And that's [ ... EXEUNT RANDOM SELF-DESCRIBED "SCOTTISH" SOVIET PLANTS .... ] out of the game"

"Alles in ordnung. Goodbye Poll Tax."
"Goodbye VAT"
"Next time we chat"
"Commonwealth Beef & Lamb will be back on the menu, innit?"

[Nobunaga]

It does look like it's going to be pretty cool though...
Last time I traveled to Leicester I stayed at the Sky Plaza Hotel; I don't think I could ever go through that experience again

[Red Laser]

I e-mailed the Heritgae Council asking for more ainformation and offering to promote the exhibition through the site... f*ck all response.

Miserable bastards so do you really want to host the BFTB con there next year still?

[The Baron]

Yes, as it's where the toys were created I'm hoping local interest will be high. With luck we'll get some veterans with tales to tell coming along.

[Red Laser]

Love the use of the word veteran. lol!! So you want some crazy old man with a beard and bits of Palitoy AF stuck in it and paint under his fingernails recounting tales of old? I can imagine that "Back in the old days we didn't have no namby pamby artic-U-lation we had straight limbed figures at least not at first. Yessir working in the old Palitoy mines was a tough job not for steers and queers".

[The Baron]

Looks like you've mixed up your meds again, Irony.

[Red Laser]

Dagnabbit!! I sure have.

[Thundershot]

My aunt used to work for Cascelloid's, the original parent company of Palitoy.. but sadly, not on the toy side of things she worked on the prodution line for tooth paste caps or some such everyday mundane item.

Not a very interesing story that one, I'm afraid, but it's the only link I've got to the great Palitoy story.

Now one of my work collegues 1st job was checking delivery & depatch for the factory who produced the Matchbox Race 'n' Chase sets, & I also worked with a lady who had once been employed by the toy company Ideal as a secretary in their marketing dept'.

[AnnieM]

Response from Leics Record Office to an email I sent on Friday:
Dear Annie,
The main part of the exhibibition consists of 8 panels telling the story of Palitoy and its parent company in Leicester. There are however, two display cabinets which contain a variey of toys. Included are two Action dolls: Action Girl c1970 and Panzer Captain, c1974-1984. There are also the boxes for SAS Underwater Attack. c1978-1984 and SAS Silent Attack, c1982- 1985 and Action Force Water Moccasin. The exhibition was originally devised for Snibston Discovery Park and has since toured most of the county museums so your members may well have caught the exhibition already. However, all are welcome to view the exhibition in our reception foyer and as far as I can see there would be no problems with taking photographs.

I hope that this helps
Jess

Jess Jenkins
Assistant Keeper of Archives,
Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland

'tis only a weeny exhibition, then

[The Baron]

Jess obviously hates me, then.