Thursday, September 06, 2007

Toy OTD: Tomy Richard Scarry Vehicle: Lowly Worm's Apple Car (1995)

Given how incredibly appealing Richard Scarry's books are, I'm always surprised that there isn't a constant flood of merchandise based on his drawings! Tomy did one of the best Scarry licenses, and it's been quite a while since it happened.

This is just a great little toy! Press down on the apple leaf, and the car scoots across the floor. there's very little paint on it - most of the colors come from the plastic parts themselves, which you know I like. Lowly's treatment is a little bland, but Tomy gets BIG points for making him removeable - I always took characters out of their cars, whether they were supposed to or not!

There was a bigger line of Richard Scarry toys and figures, but I mainly remember an Officer Murphy toy with him riding his motorcycle, and Bananas Gorilla in his Bananamobile. All of them were cool, but I prioritized and bought just Lowly and Officer Murphy.

I don't remember how much this cost back in the day, but I'm confident that it wasn't expensive. Even now, you can get one in an auction starting at $9.99 on eBay.

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3 Comments:

Blogger Amanda & Jordan said...

i had the entire set of those toys (being that i was a little kid) and each car had a "house" or building that it corresponded with.

my favorite mcdonald toys were the Peanuts set, they were out in the late 80s and I absolutely loved them.. Who knows whatever happened to those

1:01 PM  
Blogger Kitty Cat said...

oh my god, I love that little worm guy! me and my little bro used to call him one shoe hopper :-D

4:07 AM  
Blogger TempleDog said...

Hey, Jeff! Had some friends work on this series, along with "Arthur". Just happened across yer post while searching Richard Scarry. Now, I'm off to see if that car is still on the ebays!

2:07 PM  

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