As mentioned already this cute COMICARS car joined the Moonbase fleet last month. I spotted it on Ebay USA and immediately recognised the washed-out colouring and the JR diamond monogram of J. Rosenthal Toys (later to be JR21). You can also see the HS combination we've come across before on the blog [but what does it stand for?]. This little piggy is model no.313, putting paid to my theory that my plastic VW Pick-Up [also 313] is JR21. You can see that two more COMICARS have model numbers 314 and 315. There is also a REGD. APPROVED no. 914612. The rear artwork showing a turning-head motion seems OTT for such a meagre feature! Still I do love this watercolouresque artwork, which we have seen before on the JR21 X- series of plastic space toys by J.Rosenthal.
This brings me neatly to the next Rosenthal update: a few more pics of the fabulous and only-recently seen X-90 FLYING SAUCER CAR, model no. 241, sold to a lucky buyer on Ebay last month. Although far more sophisticated you can see on the box side a similar palette of colour washes to that of the Comicars above.
Another point of reference is what I will now refer to as the X-bumper, which you can see on the noses of both the X-90 above and X-60 below [the bumper is an ejecting button]. Has anybody come across any more X-bumpers?
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