Way back in the eighties, crisp manufacturer KP came out of nowhere with a brilliant mail away premium - the Alien Battle Fleet. For six packets and a few quid, you got a brilliant little die-cast spaceship. When this offer came out, I went straight down to the local shop and bought about 30 odd bags of these damn snacks, ate a few and binned the rest. The back of the pack showed fout different designs which included a brilliant drill-headed ship. I got enough packs for a full set and for an additional fleet of the drill ships. Unfortuantely, due to a botch up on the packs, the code for the drill ship which shows under the wing was written wrongly on the pack, so I ended up with fou of the 'dragon' headed ship instead! Still, after writing to KP to let them know of the mistake, I got another four ships in red instead of black. The same type of ship also turned up some months later in a Kinder Surprise egg - the larger plastic ones with mini eggs inside. This is the brown one in the lower picture.
To promote the offer, KP ran a weekly series of three adverts in Eagle comic, a brilliant parody strip drawn by comic veteran Frank Langford. Luckily, i managed to preserve my copies of Eagle long enough to find these ads years later!
Way back in the eighties, crisp manufacturer KP came out of nowhere with a brilliant mail away premium - the Alien Battle Fleet. For six packets and a few quid, you got a brilliant little die-cast spaceship. When this offer came out, I went straight down to the local shop and bought about 30 odd bags of these damn snacks, ate a few and binned the rest. The back of the pack showed fout different designs which included a brilliant drill-headed ship. I got enough packs for a full set and for an additional fleet of the drill ships. Unfortuantely, due to a botch up on the packs, the code for the drill ship which shows under the wing was written wrongly on the pack, so I ended up with fou of the 'dragon' headed ship instead! Still, after writing to KP to let them know of the mistake, I got another four ships in red instead of black. The same type of ship also turned up some months later in a Kinder Surprise egg - the larger plastic ones with mini eggs inside. This is the brown one in the lower picture.
To promote the offer, KP ran a weekly series of three adverts in Eagle comic, a brilliant parody strip drawn by comic veteran Frank Langford. Luckily, i managed to preserve my copies of Eagle long enough to find these ads years later!
Its amazin how you've managed to keep all this ace stuff Wote! Were KP Outer Spacers sort if curly and melt-in-the-mouth?
ReplyDeleteKp Outer Spacers were a bit like spaceship shaped Monster Munch. Bloody awful and guaranteed to stick in your teeth and shower you with foul vinegar smelling crumbs!
ReplyDeleteJust found two of mine. Never got the full set. Sadly KP sent me a duplicate one. I’ve put them on Flickr great post. Much appreciated
ReplyDeleteHumber - have you seen my related post: http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/space-fleet-2000.html?m=1
DeleteThey are nice little toys, shame you dont get their like today
ReplyDeleteGreat site. Will look out for sword stuff.
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