Checking My Pulse

Following on from Woodsy's query about the colour of the Nuclear Pulse, here's my take on the mystery.

courtesy John Eaton

The blue version appears on the card back and in the Golden Astronaut advert in US mail order catalogue. But all actual instances of the toy, in separate and boxed sets are orange. The model shown on the trade photos is clearly a prototype, as you can tell by the opaque docking bay cover.

Courtesy John Eaton

As a kid, I expected to find the boxed toy to be blue and red and was seriously annoyed when it wasn't! Consequently, in the eighties when I assumed I would never see another Spacex toy again (pre internet!) I decided to 'repair' my battered Nuclear Pulse and repaint it.

It was a moderately successful job, but pretty crude. Then, years later, I discovered the internet and voila!

I now have my original painted Pulse, a boxed one and a fixer upper. So if anyone has two spare rotors they can sell or trade..