The fabulous SWORD Snow Train would have made a great toy back in '67. Long, articulated, spectacular. Just imagine if it had come with battery-operated heat shields, which enveloped it [would that be even possible as a toy?] and turned it into the awesome lava-sailing Beetle as pictured above in the SWORD Annual. Alas, we had to settle for the card model Snow Train.
In 2003 I was hopeful of a Beetle- like toy when the US movie The Core came out. The star vehicle in the film, Virgil, was a lava-dissolving leech-like sub with a shape not too dissimilar to the Beetle. Yes! A Virgil toy! Well, no. Alas, as far as I know there were no Virgil toys from the film. Or? Are there any other "lava-sailing" toys or models?
Picture: Wikipedia
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ReplyDelete(facepalms) Did I really make that awful pun out loud? Please tell me I didn't (grins)