I do like these Space Cars from Argentina - its funny how many space toys reflect a yearning for construction sites in space. I'm sure I've had one in the past as part of a job lot of toys I got. It's the distinctuive egg-shape that is familiar. The header card is really appealing, moreso than the toys - I've seen the jetpacking spaceman somewhere else but where? Buck Rogers I think like this? But which toy?
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Looking again I can't help thinking of Weebles driving them! You know, 'Weebles wobble but they don't fall down'. I always think of Peter Griffin when I see a weeble - its the hair! hee hee! Sweet!
I'm pretty sure that Weebles never made it into space did they?
I remember two things like this being in our stockings on seperate Christmas' when I was a kid. The first looked very similar but without the windows and add-on bits of superstructure, just 'eggs' with wheels, painted as a mouse (grey) and pig (pink, my brothers). Another year something similar but the noses came of and there was a coloured marker pen inside.
ReplyDeleteAlso when I was going through one of my nutty modelling phases, I put wheels on an old Jif Lemon!
I'll be there in a Jiffy! Hee hee. Jif's (empty!) also made (and still do) great grenade heads for broken missiles that came with the Johnny Seven OMA, the Multibuster or Secret Sam Attache Case!
ReplyDeleteDidn't Cadbury's cream eggs do a car too?
In the early 1980s Kinder did a series of space toys that included some construction vehicles.
ReplyDeleteNot egg-shaped, but they did come in an egg!
Sean
Were they like the little space toys BRUDER did in Germany that pop up on Ebay now and then?
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