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Friday, 13 July 2012
Tip of the (ED) Iceberg
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and his photo site too!
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READ THE ESSENTIAL PROJECT SWORD COMICS HISTORY BY SHAQUI LEVESCONTE & KIM STEVENS
the definitive guide to vintage thunderbirds toys - steve's thunderbirds vintage toys
PROJECT SWORD SPACEX TIMELINE
- 1968 SPACEX LT10 CONCEPT
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER REAL THING
- 1969 LUNAR CLIMBER & MOONSHIP
- 1968 PROJECT SWORD ANNUAL
- 1968 TV21 #168 PROJECT SWORD PHASE 2
- 1968 PLEASURE CRUISER CONCEPT
- 1968 CENTURY 21 TOY MANUAL
- 1967 SCOUT 1 CONCEPT
- 1967 NUCLEAR FERRY TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER CONCEPT
- 1966 HOVERTANK IN COMIC
- 1966 NUKE PULSE NEEDLEPROBE IN COMIC
- 1966 ZERO X FILM DEBUT
- 1966 MOONBUS IN COMIC
- 1966 SPACE PATROL 1
- 1966 P3 HELICOPTER IN COMIC
- 1966 SAND FLEA AND SNOW TRAIN
- 1966 MOBILE LAUNCH PAD IN COMIC
- 1965 SPACEX MOONBASE CONCEPT
- 1965 APOLLO FIRST UK TOY AD
- 1962 NOVA CONCEPT
- 1962 MOONBUS CONCEPT
- 1961 MOON PROSPECTOR CONCEPT
- 1953 MOLAB CONCEPT
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Blog exclusive 3 - tarheel moon prospector instruction sheet - print-out a4 and keep!
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OTHER PROJECT SWORD VEHICLES IN THE ANNUAL
DREAMS OF space - a fabulous timeline of space books and art
PROBE FORCE 3 VARIATIONS
PROJECT SWORD, SPACEX AND APOLLO MOON EXPLORING LIST. KEY SS = SIMILAR TO SWORD, SB = Similar box
- T Moon Prospector artwork box
- T Moon Prospector Photo Box
- T Moon Ranger
- Tarheel (T) Space Glider USA
- Sears 3 Stage Rocket Base USA
- Century 21 (C21) Moonbase Playset UK
- C21 Zero X
- C21 Nuclear Ferry
- C21 Cape Kennedy Set
- C21 Apollo Saturn Rocket
- C21 Space Glider
- C21 Moon Ranger
- C21 Booster Rocket
- C21 Moon Prospector
- C21 Probe Force 1
- C21 Probe Force 2
- C21 Probe Force 3
- C21 Re-Entry Taskforce 1
- C21 Re-Entry Taskforce 3
- C21 Re- Entry Taskforce 2
- Century 21 Scout 1
- Century 21 Scout 2
- Century 21 Scout 3
- C21 Rocket Launcher - SS
- C21 Mobile Bridge & Combat Tank - SS
- C21 Moonship - SS
- C21 Lunar Climber - SS
- C21 Topo Gigio Camper - SB
14 comments:
A really great space fleet!
Really cool collection Ed! What about those X-200's with square belly in the back row, can you tell if they belong to some kind of space tower? Been wondering.
Cheers Arto
Rivets and wings! Rockets of style. Beautiful collection of ships Ed!, smack in the middle of the 'Golden Age' of space toys.
Thanx Andy - it's only a portion as none of my Marx stuff is displayed here.
Arto, do you mean a playset where they were perhaps attached by wire to a tower or simply a playset where a tower was present? All the ships in the photo were purchased as stand alone items and not part of a larger playset.
Many Thanx CS! I always loved these and as a kid had several of the Premier Plastics Flash Gordon types. Some things one just never grows out of - thankfully :-)
Ed, I mean the former of which, to my knowledge, there is the Tudor Rose Space Tower, plus its Batman variant. Possibly more.
Aha! I see now. I didn't know about the Tudor Rose Tower. I have S. Mark Young's book "Blast Off" and Bill Hanlon's "Plastic Toys Dimestore Dreams of the '40s & '50s' and didn't notice a Tudor Rose tower. Looks like another hunt!! :-)
The full name is Space City Control Tower, and can be seen here
http://p2.la-img.com/252/14715/4701931_1_l.jpg
On my want list too, Ed!
Arto - wowo Thanx for the link! I definitely did not know about this tower and it's not shown in the books I have (altho I really don't have that many to begin with). I'm curious. The photo shows the space ships having a squarish block underneath them. Is this a removeable cradle or was the tooling modified to make this integral to the fuselage casting? hmmmm
Ed - I've been under the impression that the squarish underbelly is an integral part of the casting and therefore different from the standard X-200. (Thence my original question about your pair which seems to be of a similar casting.)
Ps. Blast-Off! is my definite scifi toy heaven, too!
Arto, my bad. I spent last Saturday morning taking photos - lots & lots of photos - and wasn't really paying attention to details UNTIL I just took a look at those toys. The 'squarish' castings are actually the landing gear nacelles (or pods or whatever....). I'll be sending Wotan some photos to help clear up the mystery. Also, my two large X-200s are both Pyro and neither one appears to have a means to connect a rod enabling it to fit on the tower. Perhaps Tudor Rose modified the tooling to allow this.
Cheers Ed, looking forward to those pics! The control tower X-200's seem to come without wheels, but maybe that's just my imagining and they are actually all of a similar casting.
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