Over the Summer I was lucky enough to pick up this Space Bird 3 variation. Space Bird by YT of Japan is a clone of Project SWORD's Probe Force 3 and as far I know this brings the total number of Space Bird variants to four. The other three are featured below. The main two colour types are grey or white. All the other variations are differences in the colour of the cockpit and engine windows and the rear engines themselves. This new combination, pictured above, is green cockpit, red engine woindow and yellow rear engines. There could well be many more colour combinations as yet undiscovered.
There may also be box differences between the grey and white types, but I can't be certain as I don't own a white one. Looking at the pictures here they do apear to have different top box art.
Wow - that's a cool looking space ship! I may have to expand my collection into the large side of space toys :-)
ReplyDeleteAgree with Iceberg! Outstanding ship: rivets-check, fins-check, retro-future-good-guys look yet bristling with weapons-check.
ReplyDeleteYep CS and Ed, the Probe Force 3, according to TV21 Annual, is the most deadly of all the SWORD fleet as its armed with 3 Nukes apiece on each wing. The origin of the design still eludes us though. Any ideas?
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