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(More customer reviews)Corgi re-released it's four 1979 Muppet figures in vehicles in 2002. These were a lot more mass produced so you're a lot more likely to find one in good condition and also still in it's original packaging than the 1979 versions. Of the four Muppet vehicles, Animal is the vehicle/figure that looks the most similar to the 1979 original.
Like all Corgi boxed vehicles there is no sticky tape on the box so it's simply a matter of opening the ends and sliding the car on its orange cardboard base out of one of them. For this reason there is no way of knowing if a Corgi boxed vehicle has ever been opened if a seller is claiming this. The vehicle displays well on the orange base as it also does in the original box with a nice big plastic observation window. It is secured to the orange cardboard by metal twist ties which can easily be loosened so you can slip each wheel out without cutting them. Therefore again when reselling or if (moving house so it doesn't move around and get damaged) it is easy once again to put the vehicle back in its original new looking display condition. I really like how Corgi does this with it's customer friendly packaging but like I said it also means there is no way of knowing if a seller's claims that the box has never been opened are true or not.
Wheels all move, in fact the vehicle rolls very smoothly, you'd think with the wheels not being completely circular that the vehicles wouldn't move well but nothing could be further from the truth, in fact if there's a slight angle on the surface you are displaying it, Animal will roll away.
The other three vehicles in the Muppet 25 years release incidentally are Fozzie in a blue old fashioned ute (it was red in the 1979 original release), Miss Piggy in a pink car and Kermit in a yellow car (see them in my images).
Animal himself is pretty well detailed holding his drum sticks ready to bash on the large drums which make up the back wheels or the cymbal or smaller in front of the cockpit thing. The Amazon marketplace seller lists this as Animal Toy on Tractor, it is not called a tractor anywhere on the box nor listed by Corgi as one. Although its basic shape may well resemble a tractor or more like a locomotive I would say, the vehicle is in fact various drum kits positioned together to make up a vehicle. Animal's signature is on the undercarriage as well as the two front wheels and top drum. The two rear wheels have the Muppet show logo on them with Kermit coming out of the letter O.
It's a good car which you should be able to get boxed in new condition for just a couple of pounds (British sites are where it's the most common being Corgi and all).
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