Another old chestnut, an old space nut as I call them, is what you might describe as the Argentinian Space Fighter, a ubiquitous two-winged spacecraft reminiscent of a Star Wars X-Wing although it could be older?
The toy has been on the Bay in one form or another ever since I started and is particularly popular in Latin America. It comes in many forms - plastic, die cast and combinations of the two, together with variants in style and shape but they all adhere to the same basic concept.
A great example of the toy is the INVASORES NAVES line by Citytoy/ Gulliver complete with Britain's spaceman knockoffs. Toy collector Cory Lechat recently emailed me about it: Hi Paul, here's some pics of one of the Naves City-Toy space series from Argentina. They did a set of 4 vehicles - I only have one. Details of back of package included which show all 4. I was surprised when I found this online a while back as it reminded me of the old Space-X series...these are much bigger though. Cheers, Cory LeChat, Pittsburgh, USA
Blog friend Ed Berg sent me an interesting picture of his AVION LASER about a year ago: Woodsy, Picked this up a while back. An interesting craft from Argentina, it's tin-litho with additional plastic parts, has a friction motor for the wheels, and is equipped with wingtip rocket launchers but no figure is included. I have seen other tin-litho spaceships from Argentina on eBay but never paid enough attention to know whether they were made by the same company as part of a series.
Cheers, Ed
Other examples are:
and some cake decorations I found that appear similar too!
Can anyone tell us anything else about this two-winged space fighter toy?
I really enjoy the Argentinian offerings but postage here to the States is pricey - as is postage to send things there as well. Great post!
ReplyDeleteSeveral things spring to mind here, the first is the figures are rip offs from 1990s Britains Stargards:
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Second is besides the passing resemblance to the Alpha Probe on the white Alpha fighter, theres more than a look of Capsela:
http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/its-raining-men.html
Finally, the red and silver Fantastic ship sports a red cannon on the back, lifted directly from Multimac:
http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/multi-explorer-force-12-from-burscough.html