I recently found this fun, and very rare Casper the Friendly Ghost wind-up tank toy, wonderfully adorned with a variety of lithographed Harvey characters. Little Audrey, Herman and Catnip, Baby Huey, and Buzzy the Crow are all aboard, and aiming their silly sights at you! Made in Japan by Marx / Linemar, what makes this so unique is that after giving the 'ol tank a good windin', the full body, flat Casper piece on the underside pops up, turning / flipping the tank over until it rolls back on its wheels, where it then continues on down the path to do more hilariously haunted tank destruction ahead. Okay, there wasn't much damage done to my wallet though, fortunately, as this thing was way out of my price range, but it was still cool to play with at the antique mall until an employee waltzed by and gave me a dirty look. Marx / Linemar made a ton of different tank type toys like this, they even teamed up with the DCU for an oddly off-model, yellow color costumed Superman tank variant-- check it out by FLIPPING OVER HERE!
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