Thursday, November 15, 2018

International Clowns - Flippo Trippo (Italy)


First up is this amazingly titled FLIPPO TRIPPO figure from Italy. I saw this in a lot on eBay and I had to have it! Now I can't stop saying FLIPPO TRIPPO! FLIPPO TRIPPO!






If you scroll to the bottom of this blog post, you can see some ads for FLIPPO TRIPPO in an Italian magazine (along with some other sweet ads).

I even found two YouTube videos of people opening/playing with FLIPPO TRIPPO figures: this video shows an unboxing of the Clown Around Town Hall and this video is a fairly well done episode of life in Flipponia!

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

International Clowns - Canada

It wasn't just Americans who got to enjoy Clown Around - they were sold in other countries including Canada and Italy. I will update this post as I discover more international figures.

This Caleche (Calliope Cab) is from Canada. Dig that dual language packaging! Thanks to eBay user classie312 for these images. 





Sunday, October 9, 2016

Clown Catalog

Below is an insert that came packaged with the Clown Around Playsets. It's interesting to see how some of the figures depicted in the insert differ from the production figures.










Thursday, September 15, 2016

School House

"Clown School is a quaint, one-room, red schoolhouse with a bell in a tower to ring for class. Comes with teachers and student clowns. Complete with 1 teacher's desk, 2 student desks."

The School House came with Our Miss Clown, Hookie Clown, two student desks, and one teacher's desk.


       










Clown Around Paddy Wagon

"This comical paddy wagon comes with cop and crook clowns to keep clown city safe. With Clown Around cop and Pugsey the crook clown."









In the image from below from the catalog, you can see Pugsey had a much different color scheme.







Calliope Cab

"The fanciful cab is used to escort the clowns around clown city."

The Calliope Cab came with Chauncey the Unicorn and the Clown Cabbie.







Clown Cabbie


Clown House

"Clown School is a quaint, one-room, red schoolhouse with a bell in a tower to ring for class. Comes with teachers and student clowns. Complete with 1 teacher's desk, 2 student desks."

The Clown Around House came with Ma and Pa Clown, two beds, one table, and decals. You'll  notice that on the box, Ma and Pa look different than their production figures. Ma is a completely different mold (using Our Miss Clown's mold) and Pa has a different color scheme.

Ma and Pa also came carded individually. 
















Clown Hall

Coming Soon

C65 Napoleon Clownapart

One of the rare 2nd series clowns. Napoleon one of the cooler clowns. He does come up on eBay every now and then, usually in large lots.


C63 Elton Clown

The elusive Elton Clown! Different sites said that Elton wasn't made (or that he was the Shiek clown). But after much digging, Elton clown was made! While quite rare, there have been some in lots on eBay (where I got both of mine) in which he was in. One of the second series clowns.

C64 Long Clown Silver

Arrrr ye clowns! A must have clown for your collection! A rare second series clown. He comes up on eBay in lots, but he isn't a common clown to find. One of my favorites.