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Thursday, 21 June 2012

UFORIA

Years ago I came across this black and white image of one of the legendary Imai UFO 'Base' kits showing amongst its gems a SWORD Moon Crawler. For ages I couldn't find a colour image [picture: Bill Earle]. I think the Japanese translates to UFO Secret Dome Kit 4 but I could easily wrong.

Well through the glories of cyberspace here is the kit in colour. Not a great shot of the box lid but you get some idea of the contents and the box sides. Anyone got this kit?
OK SWORDIES, a little brainteaser before beddy bies: on which other toy box art does the self same image of the SWORD Moon Crawler appear?

3 comments:

Mike said...

I believe it appears on the UFO missile tank

WOODSY said...

You da man Mike, bang on!

Mike said...

I really must track down one of those lovely little curiosities one of these days, although I wouldn't pay some peoples daft asking prices.

It's funny but even though it's got nothing to do with the series and is just an orange tank with a big radar and some missiles, I feel like it should be.

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