copy instruction sheet available from bigredtoybox..... and here's that egg-box again in a properly licenced XL5 SPACE CITY playset by MPC. You can see it upturned in the compartment at the lower left and in the instructions sheet middle left. I can't read the sheet so still can't say what it is. Was this available in the UK and Europe as well as North America?
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PS. Looking at the box art for the MPC set the egg-boxes now appear to be biuldings of some sort? If you like XL5 here's an excellent and handy XL5 vintage toy gallery.
The egg-boxes do indeed look like buildings on the box artwork. But if that is the case then the pieces are a bit out of scale with everything else in the set. Toy Soldier HQ describes them as fuel tanks. See here (near bottom of page):
ReplyDeleteToy Soldier HQ: MPC
If only a higher quality scan of the instruction sheet was available online.
Hi Paul:
ReplyDeleteThe object you describe as 'egg-boxes' are fuel tanks in the playset. However, in the series it is actually a 'Space Tanker'. A type of earth spaceship utility vehicle. The design has been simplified to eliminate the engine bells and fins evident in the original design of the studio miniature. Here's a link to a still from the series, illustrating the space tanker.
http://lester.demon.nl/superm/pix/sfx/xl5/xl5-8.jpg
Cheers,
Graeme
Do you have any for sale?
ReplyDeleteMy favourite TV show and I was alive when it came out so you can guess I'm pretty old now. Have to watch you tube to get my fix these days. good stuff like this goes unwatched while we get reality TV shows and Simon Cowell's karaoke hour. ;-((