Thunderbird 1 has a lot to answer for. It spawned countless clones and one of my favourites is the T Apollo 11 with it's translucent red tip. But as we've seen before T wasn't alone in producing an Apollo 11, there's a whole squadren of them! Above is a rogues gallery of the one's I know about. Anymore pics of Apollo 11's or TB1 clones always welcomed for the blog - toys, sweets, ice lollies, anything!
From left to right [source in brackets]:
Top row
Project Mars by Redbox [Pekoday]
Wonder L by Nomura [Alphadrome]
Apollo X by T [Woodsy]
Saturn 5 by T 'German version' [Arto]
Bottom row
Apollo 11 by Nomura [Alphadrome]
Apollo 11 by T [Woodsy]
Apollo X by Unknown [anyone know the logo?] [Vectis]
Apollo with Spaceman "La Parisienne, Made in Hong Kong, Joseph Makivits NY" [Ebay]
All pictures are the property of the owners in brackets
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ReplyDeleteApollo XV by Lyra (Greece) No 150
found here
http://www.toymuseum.gr/toysspace.htm
First Greek off-SWORD toy, isn't it Paul?
Cheers Arto
great link arto. yep, that's the first greek near-Sword toy. love the greek site - there's loads of stuff in there. it'd be great to find it all in an old toy shop there!
ReplyDeleteWoodsy