The next few weeks promise to be an exciting time at Moonbase. Me, Bill and Scoop will be bringing you some fabulous new posts about an obscure Gerry Anderson TV series pilot called The Investigator. It never made it onto the telly but left a legacy of fantastic vehicles in the true Anderson style.
As a prelude to all this I wanted to ask readers if they might help solve a mystery related to The Investigator. In 2013 I saw a daytime antiques TV show here in the UK. It will have been Flog It or something like it. On the show was a British toy museum, which was displaying what appeared to be the original Investigator Armoured Command Vehicle from the show as pictured below and some footage courtesy of You Tube.
Does anyone know which toy museum it is?
2-minute google and 8 minutes watching the clip (which is severely drool-inducing). Your answer is about 5 minutes in.
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Hope this helps -- Paul
Wow! Both props and Project Sword priminent too! I can feel a road trip coming on!!
ReplyDeleteThey're bound to have some pictures of those vehicles if you ask them nicely, but a trip and taking your own would indeed be that much better!
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Between an email from Arto and your link Paul, by Jove, you've done it. Yes indeed, the Armoured Command Car prop has been located at The House on The Hill Toy Museum here in the UK. Excellent detective work! Thanks!
ReplyDeletethe red model car is on ebay now, the item number is 323649097050. It's a buy it now at £19,999 though. It seems a bit high, as the seller paid £7,380 for it.
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Thanks for the heads up. I shall watch the sale with interest!
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