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Range Rider

OurDailyChallenge "Begins with R"

 

In this case "Range Rider" a toy from the late 1940s - 1950s. There are numerous versions of this toy with various colours of horse and rider's costume and several colours of lettering. Another version featured Hopalong Cassidy. Both were cowboy characters in books, comics and movies. These toys have a windup mechanism that activates a lever in the base that causes it to rock back & forth, the lasso whirling around and the loose arm in front with the gun to raise and lower.

 

This is a rather poor quality video, but it gets the point across:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yZ7ei6sAlI

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Uploaded on November 27, 2011
Taken on November 27, 2011