The fabulous Hover Moon Base, Space Glider and Adventure: Now these little fellows I adore although they somehow passed me by as a kid ( then again I was 10 in 1970 and had discovered pop music!). The fabulous Hover Moon Base and fleet of spacecraft. Although a Spacex knockoff it did offer value for money as you got not one but two silver astronauts on the carded toys and a veritable academy of six in the box! Added to this were little plastic pieces of pink moonscape (they look pink in the pics!). So cool.
A couple of inevitable questions arise looking at these pictures: what was on the box and card backs - nothing?, did the Scramble Bug come on a card too? and did the pink roving vehicle, which appears on the header cards come as a toy too? Where there any more of these little beauties?
One final thought, I can't help thinking that the Space Adventure is a typo with an 'r' missing. I think it should have been 'Space Adventurer', which would fit in with other two factual titles of Space Glider and Moon Base.
(picture credits: 1 (top) Ebay, 2 WOTAN, 3 MM, 4 (bottom) MM - thank you)
I Came upon these hover toys and a Lunar Rover from the same series as loose toys sold in an open box, 5p each, way back about 1973! ive only got the space glider left now!
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