"Do you remember ...plastic moulded castles?" Topic

Of possible interest, this plastic castle fortification from yesteryear, found on The Duchy of Tradgarland blogsite. Much respect.

Who made it, what was it called, who had one, who has one?

I don't think I owned one but I remember having access to one. Great fun.

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Looks like German Elastolin to me.

Yes, Elastolin. I had a smaller one many years ago.

Hafen v S, and nnascati, spot on. Thanks.

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I bought that very castle in Stuttgart Germany in 1981
Shipped it home and sold it several years later in Alabama.

I still have mine.

Yeah, I still have mine too although it's much darker. Must have been a shift change between dry brushing crews.

I have a very large Elastolin castle…..just collecting dust.I will do something with it eventually.

I still have mine

We played a game using one of those castles last year.

My castle – very similar to the one in the first post – still has its box – it isn't Elastolin, but it is of a similar style to the Elastolin and Hausser castles, though rather smaller in scale. These things are regularly listed on eBay and elsewhere as Elastolin and they really aren't – these were made by Eberlein, of Neumarkt, Bavaria, under the brand name ECO. Eberlein were a plastics manufacturer, not a toy company – in fact I believe they are still in operation – they make plastic gutters and similar. The example in the picture is a nice clean one – very nice. They are not so common these days, probably because they are tricky to store and the moulding tends to split under duress!

did not britains have one similar

I too had the castle in the first post. Got regularly used by my Airfix figures when I was kid. I remember using it for a Napoleonic siege and pretending it was Colditz for WW2.

Pretty cool to use it for Colditz. Excellent idea.

My brother and I were given a large Marx castle for Christmas. It came with a large plastic base which had a moat that went all the way around the castle and you could put water in it, which we did once. It came with Knights and Vikings and a catapult with little plastic rocks. The draw bridge worked and there was chain and a crank that worked the draw bridge. My mother said she would get even with my Uncle that gave it to us. I have no idea what happened to it. I have looked around on the internet but can only find the figures, the catapult w/ammo and castles. But no base. Anyone else ever have one?

I always wanted the Elastolin Castle, the old Polk's Hobby Store on 5th AVE in NYC had it and I used to dream about it. The one that they had even had a secret "entrance". I had a few very small plastic castles when I was growing up but my favorite was the old Airfix Castle from the Robin Hood set.

Jowady, you may be interested in this link;

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Mr Rapier refers to this game: link
I have three of these splendid castles ( link ). They work well with figures in 20mm to 54mm!

and there seemed to be so many different designs -I got mine in a local toy shop for £14.00 GBP
Yeah Britains had a great castle -I got one for my 7th birthday with a load of Swoppets knights -joy.

I think it was this one -maybe it was Timpo…
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Hi mashrewba (it's been a while), great input. Thanks.

I had that very castle, thanks for identifying it. A great thing about it was one could join the semi-towers together to make a complete round tower, or two.

Cheers