snowybella:
What happened to the rest of this description?
Gremlins ate it...! ;-)
I've edited it back in now - thanks for pointing it out! :-)
snowybella:
And I thought that this (the one I have) was the Happy Families edition!
Confusing, isn't it? Happy Families seems to have been a popular choice for Tintin cards games, as there are many different sets, and I am having a bit of a time sorting one from the other as I research them - anyone who has further detail please pitch in! - but this is what I have found so far (in addition to the earlier post)...
7 Familles Tintin/ Happy Families (Willeb-Lombard, 1977): Happy families game, in which the "families" are taken from a different album for each set; a further nice feature is that the background art on each card (adapted from the book in question) is made so that complete families form a whole picture. Perhaps unusually, in addition to the title of the album for each family appearing at the top of the card, the bottom shows the name of the family member you might find in a standard pack (fils/ son, fille/ daughter, père/ father) regardless of the age or gender of the Hergé character shown on the card. Box is white with red edges, and shows Tintin on one side (the "suitcase and macintosh" picture used on the
Tintin magazine masthead for many years), and Captain Haddock on the other. The name Willeb, and a blue and red cockerel logo is prominent next to the figures.
7 Familles Tintin/ Happy Families (Hemma-Lombard, 1979?): As above, but the box now shows a "Hemma" logo where it previously said "Willeb"
Jeu de 7 Familles/ Happy Families (Hemma-Lombard, 1984) A new set of images is used from the previous Hemma set, and the cards have nice colour character scenes from the books for the families. The box cover is basically blue, with a picture of Tintin in his climbing gear from
Tintin in Tibet, also used on one of the cards.
Jeu des sept familles Tintin (Cheques Tintin, 1962): Happy families game, promoted by the "Cheques Tintin" trading stamps scheme. The "families" are taken from a different album for each set; cards show colour pictures of individual characters on plain white backgrounds; each family of six contains Tintin, Milou (Snowy), Haddock, Tournesol (Calculus), Dupond (Thompson) and Dupont (Thomson), which in addition to the main picture is indicated by a small portrait on the top left corner. Dupond and Dupont are distinguished even further by the letter "D" or "T" under their corner portrait - but they have been misidentified so the "D" is under Dupont/ Thomson. The box is white and orange, with a white oval bearing the name, surrounded by the corner portraits in colour. The back of the box has an advert with the names of companies participating in the scheme, and their products. The back of the cards have at least one which is white, with a pattern of radiating lines, with small images of some "Cheques Tintin" stamps in the middle, in greenish-blue - possibly the rules, or an advert? - and the rest have a red centre with a head and shoulders portrait of Tintin and Snowy in white, surrounded by a white border, with the other characters' corner portraits in red outline.
I have also seen pictures of further sets online, with blue backs, showing a head and shoulders portrait of Tintin and Snowy, and bearing the name of a company, which appear to have been advertising promotions. I have seen packs given away by Chambourcy and Nesquik, and there may be more. Cards faces are dark blue, with the name of an album at the top, a picture of a character in the middle, and the names of four characters (presumably denoting the members of that "family" at the bottom. I've not seen a box for these yet.
I've also seen a Willeb set in a box with a cut out window in it so that you can see the cards inside, but I don't know where this fits in.