Meccano was the company that was responsible for distributing Vintage Kenner toys in France. The smaller, square Vintage cards from 'Star Wars' and 'The Empire Strikes Back' are one of the best known Meccano variations. They also released the cardboard Death Star playset.
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| - Meccano was the company that was responsible for distributing Vintage Kenner toys in France. The smaller, square Vintage cards from 'Star Wars' and 'The Empire Strikes Back' are one of the best known Meccano variations. They also released the cardboard Death Star playset.
- thumb Meccano es un sistema modelo de construcción que comprende tiras reutilizables de metal, placas, vigas angulares, ruedas, ejes y engranajes, con tuercas y tornillos para conectar las piezas. Se permite la construcción de modelos de trabajo y dispositivos mecánicos. Meccano fue inventado en 1901 en Inglaterra por Frank Hornby y fabricado por la compañía británica, Meccano Ltd, entre 1908 y 1980. En la actualidad se fabrica en Francia y China. Actualmente venden "Sets Erector" son en realidad conjuntos de Meccano fabricado por Meccano SN de Francia, parte del Grupo Nikko de Japón.
- The plastic track was advertised as "gauge O track that clicks together and includes Brake Rail for automatic braking. Rails specially designed to make it easy to put train on the track". Although it was advertised as "gauge O", this only indicated the size of the model, since the track was incompatible with any other models. Adverts for the set, showing the model train "emerging" from Percy the Small Engine, appeared in "Meccano Magazine" and on the back of the dust-covers for several Railway Series books.
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| - Meccano was the company that was responsible for distributing Vintage Kenner toys in France. The smaller, square Vintage cards from 'Star Wars' and 'The Empire Strikes Back' are one of the best known Meccano variations. They also released the cardboard Death Star playset.
- The plastic track was advertised as "gauge O track that clicks together and includes Brake Rail for automatic braking. Rails specially designed to make it easy to put train on the track". Although it was advertised as "gauge O", this only indicated the size of the model, since the track was incompatible with any other models. Adverts for the set, showing the model train "emerging" from Percy the Small Engine, appeared in "Meccano Magazine" and on the back of the dust-covers for several Railway Series books. The train set was only produced for a limited time, and is now extremely rare. The set did not sell very well and to sell the remaining stock Meccano removed the face and replaced it with a red smokebox, domes and whistle. It is notable as the last O gauge train to be made at Meccano's famous Binns Road factory in Liverpool. It should be noted that the Meccano Percy made an appearance on a 1967 episode of the show "The Avengers" entitled "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station". Photographs of the set and the adverts may be found here and a close-up of Percy can be found here. The tooling for Percy has been used by the company Lyra where they made it battery powered and gave it an LED in the face area, it is unknown as to wether it was purchased or duplicated from Meccano.
- thumb Meccano es un sistema modelo de construcción que comprende tiras reutilizables de metal, placas, vigas angulares, ruedas, ejes y engranajes, con tuercas y tornillos para conectar las piezas. Se permite la construcción de modelos de trabajo y dispositivos mecánicos. Meccano fue inventado en 1901 en Inglaterra por Frank Hornby y fabricado por la compañía británica, Meccano Ltd, entre 1908 y 1980. En la actualidad se fabrica en Francia y China. Actualmente venden "Sets Erector" son en realidad conjuntos de Meccano fabricado por Meccano SN de Francia, parte del Grupo Nikko de Japón.
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