by MichaelB » Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:17 pm
Indeed, yes...ERTL Jet Tran were new molds, but the ERTL "Planes of the World" were the Lintoy molds. They did retain and reuse the Lintoy 747 mold for quite some time until it was replaced in time by the somewhat larger Jet Tran 747. From Richardson (Corgi releases):
Concorde BOAC
707B Air France
727 Air Canada
TWA
747 Pan Am
Wardair
British Aiways
Canadian Pacific (a beautiful release!)
Air Canada
L1011 Air Canada
Air France
DC-9 Air Canada
SAS
DC-8 (Same cast as 707 without fin antenna) Air Canada
VC-10 British Airways
DC-10 Swissair
American Airlines
Lintoy releases (from Richardson):
707 Delta
Air France
SAA
DC-8 United
747
KLM
Japan Airlines
SAA
Concorde
British Airways
Eastern (I'd lke to see this one!)
Japan Air Lines
L1011 Air France
727 Braniff International
SAA
DC-9 Air Canada
Swissair
TWA
Eastern
DC-10 United
Air France
VC-10 British Airways
Lintoy/Tomica
DC-8 JAL
L1011 All Nippon Airways
Lintoy/Bachmann
707 TWA
L1011 Delta
Air France
Lintoy/ERTL
707 as DC8 American Airlines
DC10 United
Air France
727 Braniff in two tone
DC9 Eastern
L1011 TWA
Air France
I'm going to stop before we hit the "Flyers" release since there are significant changes to the molds. However they are almost all the same airlines from this point on.
...I'm still trying to figure out who released the Lintoy DC-10 I have in FinnAir colors! The Lintoy mark is rubbed out!
I would also point out that all of these releases were before the time when airlines worried about "toys" using their marks without paying. Indeed, Swissair and Lufthansa actually commissioned 727 and DC-10 toys for "give away" tokens; they were not the main lines issues, but miniatures more in the style and size of DynaFlites or Schabak.