I was looking at the cool Triang Rovex Moonmobile from 1969 online the other day.
Besides its obvious design similarities to those other vintage moon walker toys: the Matt Mason Crawler and the Billy Blastoff, I noticed two other things.
First, the red tunic that the pilot is wearing on the box looks a lot like Captain Scarlet's.
On the toy itself the figure reminds me of theses Action Force figures from 1982
Finally, I was wondering about those blue capped missiles inside the cabin. They look a lot like the rubber tipped missiles that were found in the Dinky SPV, SHADO 2 and FAB1. Are they the same?
Have you got a Triang Rovex Moonmobile?
This was the first thing I ever bought on ebay, almost 20 years ago. Brilliant toy, which will need blogging again. The missiles are the same, except for blue tips. Dinky was part of the Triang Rovex group at the time, so they obviously used existing moulds. The Captain Scarlet tunic is no accident either, I suspect!
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