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Wednesday, 26 September 2012

FAB Cereal


 Of course any mention of cereal premiums can't be complete without some of the most sought after premiums - the Gerry Anderson related toys. Thunderbirds was well starred in the cereal world, with a series of figures and the wonderful tiny kits.
 Andy B kindly provided me with these wonderfully evocative adverts and a photo of the actual kits in his collection. Amazing when you consider the size of the things.
 
Parts as follows:
Thunderbird 4 -single piece casting,
Thunderbird 3- nose, body and angled brackets all separate mouldings
Thunderbird 2- rear jet nozzles, top fin and hull
Thunderbird 1- body and section with fins at base separate.
 
TB3 was the best model of the set, also the most fragile.


5 comments:

Bill Everatt said...

I also remember a larger more kit like Thunderbird Two with cut out windows in the flight deck.

Yorkie said...

Still got my Thunderbird 2, though it's lost the tailplane

WOODSY said...

Beautiful premiums. Though they are biiger they remind mee of the simple plastic rendering of the SWORD miniatures turning up in Japan.

Mike said...

I wonder if the TB 2, Bill mentions is one of the freebies from Smiths Crisps. They were kits.

Ed "ICE" Berg said...

Great set of cereal premiums!

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