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Wednesday, 26 September 2012

FAB Cereal


 Of course any mention of cereal premiums can't be complete without some of the most sought after premiums - the Gerry Anderson related toys. Thunderbirds was well starred in the cereal world, with a series of figures and the wonderful tiny kits.
 Andy B kindly provided me with these wonderfully evocative adverts and a photo of the actual kits in his collection. Amazing when you consider the size of the things.
 
Parts as follows:
Thunderbird 4 -single piece casting,
Thunderbird 3- nose, body and angled brackets all separate mouldings
Thunderbird 2- rear jet nozzles, top fin and hull
Thunderbird 1- body and section with fins at base separate.
 
TB3 was the best model of the set, also the most fragile.


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5 comments:

  1. Bill Everatt9/26/2012 2:15 pm

    I also remember a larger more kit like Thunderbird Two with cut out windows in the flight deck.

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  2. Yorkie9/26/2012 2:34 pm

    Still got my Thunderbird 2, though it's lost the tailplane

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  3. WOODSY9/26/2012 4:04 pm

    Beautiful premiums. Though they are biiger they remind mee of the simple plastic rendering of the SWORD miniatures turning up in Japan.

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  4. SCOOP9/26/2012 4:55 pm

    I wonder if the TB 2, Bill mentions is one of the freebies from Smiths Crisps. They were kits.

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  5. Ed and Bettina Berg9/26/2012 8:05 pm

    Great set of cereal premiums!

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