ROXY MUSING

What does Roxy mean to me? Well, when I was a young glam-rocker in the early Seventies it meant Roxy Music, those art-school rockers who brought us 'Virginia Plain' and 'Do the Strand'. I used to stare at the inside cover of their For Your Pleasure LP for hours, admiring their glam gear but mostly savouring the fabulous medley of cool electric guitars, which were the be all and end all for my younger fourteen year old self.

Much earlier in my existence there was another Roxy connection, although I didn't know it at the time. I had the glorious Nomura Lunar Explorer tinplate toy, piccied above, one of my all time Big Four. It turns out that the Explorer is a dead-ringer for one of the Roxy Moon Traffic plastic vehicles. More on this later.

Around 1994 I came into possession of a Project SWORD Scout 1. Now this example had the wrong radar but it was only years later when I realised what the round dish was from.

top picture element: Vectis

And so to the Roxy Moon Traffic Project M8, a little pink number with, yes, a white dish antenna just like the one I had on my Scout 1. I had a loose one of these pink space cars in the mid-90's but I swapped it to Wotan for some miniature rubber body parts like a brain and lungs! You will be able to see now the similarity between this and Nomura's much larger tin toy.