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Sunday, 15 July 2012

All Fired up

Well its sunday evening and as I don't want Woodsy to risk taking the laptop into the bath, im adding an extra piece on the Pyro Mania thread!

After I spotted the photo of the Space Control Tower in the Blast Off book, see earlier update, Arto sent me more pics and some commentary on the Pyro/Tudor Rose connection.

"Your recent posting on Pyro opened a veritable Pandora's Box for me as this Pyro / Kleeware / Tudor Rose has been a kind of underground project for me, boosted by the two Atomic Space Ships by Tudor Rose found (see pics), a model which seems to be their own UK addition to the Pyro fleet. Tudor Rose borrowed the other molds of the X-range from Pyro, as has been investigated by the super collector Lester J. Harrison.

There is a better picture of the Space City Control Tower at Alphadrome database http://danefield.com/alpha/forums/topic/11751-tudor-rose-spaceships-x-200-and-the-control-tower/ But it gets even better! There is a killer Batman version of the same. A couple of those were auctioned last year for about £800+ a piece. I cannot seem to find any pictures of it online anymore, (but im sure someone will have one for us Arto).




The great thing about blogging is the almost instantaneous response from readers. Andy also sent me a shot of Tudor Rose Space Control Tower box artwork too!
Woodsy chips in! - here's the Tudor Rose Batman Control Station box too. The toy itself is the same as the Control Tower I think.
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3 comments:

  1. WOTAN7/15/2012 9:54 pm

    Addendum - should Add that the little red space scout is a possible variation unique to Finland, with a marbled base.

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  2. Anonymous7/16/2012 1:42 am

    Can't take my eyes off of that dark blue ATOMIC Space Ship...

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  3. Ed and Bettina Berg7/16/2012 4:12 am

    Well, after perusing 'Blast Off' again, sure enough, there's the picture in all its Technicolor glory! Glad to see it's there - what a grand piece of space hardware! Somewhere in The Cave I also have the X-300 and a bag full of Mexican knock-offs of Marx's space fleet. So many toys, so little time to cover 'em all :-)

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