Continuing in the ridged tracks of the recent moon buggy posts, here's another toy with those cookie cutter wheels. This is the buggy inside the Arco Play kids Space Set from 1978. Looks like old Buzz is doing a spot of hoovering up! The figures remind of Action Jacks but what is that on their heads? Pie?
I found a an old Arco space arcade game that reminds me of this too. It may still be in the attic. It might have been part of that unashamedly brazen Star Wars knockoff line from Arco in 1978 called Space Wars!
Looking at their hands and overall scale, they appear to be knock off/influenced by the Playmobil line. Those have a ridged head so helmets, hair etc can snap on and off fairly securely, These just have elbows/knees which Playmobil lacks. Here's a shot of a Playmobil astronaut and the head, http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/6111910/il_570xN.291097764.jpg
ReplyDeleteInteresting Lance. They do look like Playmobil. That yellow astronaut looks like a knight on armour rather than an astronaut.I get what you mean about the flat heads now.
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