So here we have another Walkers, and they made potato crisps. Now this set was issued during a big craze for Tazos, which are discs that look like the cardboard caps that used to come on pints of milk, decades ago, and they were played with i much the same way, spinning and throwing to a target, or also to construct three dimensional shapes with, using the slots that were precut at the edges.
These do not appear in the British Trade Index, though they are within the dates of the original British Trade Indexes parts three and four. Was a decision made to exclude them on the ground that they were shaped? Tomorrow I will have a look in our magazines and see if I can track them down in there.
Now our subject for the day, the Road Runner, was first drawn by the famous cartoonist Chuck Jones in the late 1940s, and his first appearance was in 1949, in a Warner Brothers cartoon with Wile E. Coyote.
According to the TradingCardDatabase/RoadRunner his rookie card was in 1974, which seems quite late to me. Then there was a huge gap until he appeared again, over fifteen years. So if anyone knows of an earlier cartophilic road runner, do let us know, even a non-cartoon version!
Road Runners do exist in real life, not just in the movies. They do run, very fast, if they have to, but they also cover vast distances by walking. They very seldom fly though. And they are much smaller than you imagine, only about two foot tall.