copy instruction sheet available from bigredtoybox..... and here's that egg-box again in a properly licenced XL5 SPACE CITY playset by MPC. You can see it upturned in the compartment at the lower left and in the instructions sheet middle left. I can't read the sheet so still can't say what it is. Was this available in the UK and Europe as well as North America?
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PS. Looking at the box art for the MPC set the egg-boxes now appear to be biuldings of some sort? If you like XL5 here's an excellent and handy XL5 vintage toy gallery.
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The egg-boxes do indeed look like buildings on the box artwork. But if that is the case then the pieces are a bit out of scale with everything else in the set. Toy Soldier HQ describes them as fuel tanks. See here (near bottom of page):
Toy Soldier HQ: MPC
If only a higher quality scan of the instruction sheet was available online.
Hi Paul:
The object you describe as 'egg-boxes' are fuel tanks in the playset. However, in the series it is actually a 'Space Tanker'. A type of earth spaceship utility vehicle. The design has been simplified to eliminate the engine bells and fins evident in the original design of the studio miniature. Here's a link to a still from the series, illustrating the space tanker.
http://lester.demon.nl/superm/pix/sfx/xl5/xl5-8.jpg
Cheers,
Graeme
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