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Sunday, 5 September 2010

Hover Squadron

This next instalment of the Moonbase fleet shows my Hoover, Hover and NASA squadron. Ranging from difficult to nigh on impossible to find, these SWORD clones are all knock-offs of US Tarheel SWORD boxes except for the Hover Booster Rocket, which is the only one I'm aware of that is an attempt to copy Century 21 SWORD box art and is by far the most complex and scarce of these toys.

From top to bottom:
Hoover Helicopter
Hover Booster Rocket [thanks Arto]
NASA [Hover?] Probe Force 3
Hover Probe Force 3
Hover Probe Force 1
Hoover Space Glider - orange, loose
Hoover rocket car [correct name unknown] - grey, loose

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