Thursday, 28 January 2016

BIRTHDAY SPECIAL: NEW PROJECT SWORD DISCOVERY 2016: TRANSLUCENT GREEN UFO ERASERS

This January I was lucky enough to get hold of this bundle of Project SWORD Takeuchi  UFO erasers from Japan. This new batch contained not one but two new things debuting for the first time on the blog.


I've blogged about these 'UFO' rubbers many times and the standard assortment is shown below [the single pack bottom row] but this batch contained some wholly new vehicles, which you can see on the top row.


These new vehicles are: pink deltoid jet and blue UFO.


Orange mystery 'car' and another different blue UFO.


A pink fighter jet and a white UFO,


and I also got another batch of standard SWORD erasers comprising of Scramble Bugs, Space Gliders, Scout 1 and Probe Force 3.


But THE really exciting stuff were in two other bags of standard erasers!


The first bag contained 2 TRANSLUCENT green vehicles, namely Probe Force 2 and 3. These are completely new to the blog!


Bag two contained 2 translucent green Scout 2's no less!


and here they are together. They are made of very soft rubber or plastic and are very bendable, as if Haribo had made them!


The undercarriages reveal the 'hands' numbering system we have seen on others from the standard range. This system involves the fingers on a hand to denote the number of that particular eraser i.e. all the fingers outstretched or just two or three etc.


This small, cool illuminated moon lamp I got off Bill for Xmas captures their translucency perfectly....thanks Bill!





SWORD is GREEN!

What do you think readers?

4 comments:

  1. they are really damn fine. heres hoping the rest of the range appear too!

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  2. That orange space car has a very Ron Turner-ish look about it, though I haven't been able to find an illustration of it.

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    1. U know what you mean Andy. It looks sort of familiar. Isn't there a sports car on the box art of one of the Imai TB2 pod kits?

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    2. I meant I know what you mean! Not U know! ha ha

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