Six of One

Now before anyone starts getting excited at the prospect of a Star Trek Next Gen link, this is in response to Woodmeisters earlier query as to what the box of the Six in One Space Set looked like!

I won the set on ebay US some time ago and the box was dilapidated then. Unfortunately, the set wasn't complete, but did carry 99% of the spacex related toys. As you can see from the box, Mortoys decided to pillage several toy lines for ideas and we have a Captain Scarlet MSV in there too as well as a close copy of a SWORD Moonbus. These two elements were missing from my set as well as one of the little wings from the Nuclear Freighter tail.

The basic idea is very similar to a Child Guidance Toy fom the sixties which had a motorised base and lots of clip on parts to make a bulldozer, plane, police car, cement mixer et al. Judging by the box, i'd tentatively place it as an early seventies toy, which would mean most of the patents for the toys they 'borrowed' would probably have expired or gone out of production, leaving the company carte blanche to plagiarise them.