Maker: Wham-O
Model: Regular
Style:
Mold: None
Size:
Disc Color: Red
Lettering/Hot Stamp: Frisbee—Raised letters . The letters are only slightly raised.
Label/Sticker:
Date Introduced: Early 1966
Number Produced:
Period of Manufacture:
Special Notes: Wham-O changed the Flying Saucer to the Regular in 1966. We believe this is the first Regular made by Wham-O. It's a kind of test disc that probably didn't end up in commercial production. At least not a single disc has been found in the sales packages. The Australian licensee Tolstoy's Regular is also made with this mold.
Disc has 14 inner flight rings and 33 outer flight rings. There is no trademark ® after the word Frisbee. The disc does not read Wham-O in raised letters. The disc has two barely visible rings. They are the same size and the same distance from the center of the disc as the raised rings of the WFS13 mold (5.1 cm and 6.7 cm from the center of the disc). The disc has a ring that is 2.5 cm from the center. The ring is visible on both sides of the disc, the ring is much more visible at the bottom of the disc. Nipples top & bottom are smooth bumps instead of usual cut off sprue on top. There is no mold number on the disc. Bottom tooling reads: PLAY CATCH - INVENT GAMES, TO FLY, FLIP AWAY BACKHANDED, FLAT FLIP FLIES STRAIGHT, TILTED FLIP CURVES - EXPERIMENT!, WHAM-O MFG. CO.SAN GABRIEL CALIF., PAT. PEND. Special attention in the script: Special attention in the script: The letter G has a foot, which can only be found in discs made with 3 mold and 2A Reverse mold. The exclamation mark is slanted and is larger than the rest of the text. There is no dot after the word San Gabriel, which is found on all other Wham-O Regulars except none and the 2A Reverse mold. This disc is courtesy of Mark Powers.
Contributor(s): Phil Kennedy, Mark Powers, Sami Loukko