I recently came across these pictures from rears of two different SPACEX backing cards. Not having many carded SPACEX myself, I was intrigued by the prevelance of blue vehicles here. There's a blue Tractor T1, a blue Nuclear Pulse and most fascinating of all, a blue Moon Bus! Has anyone got better pictures or the actual toys?
PS. Was the Space Patrol 1 rocket ship [top left] often found in yellow or is that unusual? Is there a yellow knockoff as well?
WOTAN Butts in:
Don't get me started on spacex colours! I spent many an hour poring over the card backs in anticipation of my next purchase from Woolies, only to find that many times the vehicles never matched the pics on the card. I always wanted a Tractor T5 or Forklift with those lovely balloon tyres. Most of all, I wanted the white Interplanetary 1 on the launch pad and a blue pulse! So much so that after years of playing with the originals and not expecting to ever find any more, I took a can of white Humbrol paint and set to on the rocket with disastrous results. It was only after I met the venerable Mr Vreede that I found out that the rocket came in white in the Golden Astronaut release - gahhhh!
My Nuclear Pulse had suffered years of neglect and play and was always a big thorn in my side as it appears on the card in beautiful blue and red livery, on the gorgeous box art in dayglo green and was actually made in a hideous nauseating orange. Consequently, when I had snapped off most of the wheels and damaged the dome on the top, I set to repairing it and ended up rebuilding the base and finally painting it to loosely match the card artwork. Mercifully, i've not discovered one produced in blue since..
Hi Paul,
ReplyDeleteany strange colours you see on Spacex card backs have afaik never made it into production. The vehicles concerned are either pre-production mockups (if you look closely you'll see the Forklift has different wheel detail as well, while the Pulse has no opening canopy f ex), or pre-production mould test shots in various colours (which can then be used for market testing as well, though that didn't happen too often in those days).
See my colour guide on your blog for other details. ;)
Best
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Paul
and to add to my list of crimes, I painted my Mobile Hq blue as well and then started painting my Spacex 2 series.. oh the folly of youth.
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