Tootsietoy Midgets

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Midgets were a series of 2.5 inch toys cited in all of the catalogs from 1966 and 1979.  They are extremely easy to find online in a wide variety of colors and are usually sold in groups of five to twenty.  Thirty-one have been documented up to 1977. Although they are known to have been packaged separately early on, most were packaged into multi-piece sets, sometimes with props like speedboats or gas pumps.  The packaging refers to them in different ways, but they are found most often in Jam-Pacs.  Jam-Pacs began with ten cars but that had been whittled down to six by 1979.

Little has been recorded about the Tootsietoy offerings beyond 1979.  At some point, several of them aquired fat, easy-roll wheels and seem to have morphed into the Jam-Pac Speedster series.  For the present time, all 2.5" post-1960 Tootsietoys will be considered Midgets.

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Midgets were a series of 2.5 inch toys cited in all of the catalogs from 1966 and 1979.  They are extremely easy to find online in a wide variety of colors and are usually sold in groups of five to twenty.  Thirty-one have been documented up to 1977. Although they are known to have been packaged separately early on, most were packaged into multi-piece sets, sometimes with props like speedboats or gas pumps.  The packaging refers to them in different ways, but they are found most often in Jam-Pacs.  Jam-Pacs began with ten cars but that had been whittled down to six by 1979.

Little has been recorded about the Tootsietoy offerings beyond 1979.  At some point, several of them aquired fat, easy-roll wheels and seem to have morphed into the Jam-Pac Speedster series.  For the present time, all 2.5" post-1960 Tootsietoys will be considered Midgets.

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Subject ID: 31832