Before the Topper Rocket train drives off for the night I thought I'd re-blog a post I did using some Topper Rocket base toys way back in 2009, their first appearance on Moonbase Central when it was just 8 months old.
That Bronco fire truck in the third photo looks cool and I'd forgotten I had that for a while before I sold it on Ebay. Sadly I don't have a normal photo of it anymore. It looks very Gerry Anderson!
No idea what that green cannon robot was in the penultimate shot. You?
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Inspired by Mike (Burrows)* amazing Spacex dioramas I've been messing about with a few space toys and my camera. The somewhat unspectacular results can be seen above.
- Penance battles with Spacex
- Penance inverted colours
- Bronco Fire Tender colour inverted
- Topper Rocket Base USA truck and Spacex colour inverted
- Topper Rocket Base USA Truck and Spacex
- Megarig Rocket Transporter and Topper Rocket
- Megarig Moon Ranger and Robot
- Megarig Scramble Bug and Topper people
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*this was before Mike was known as Scoop and was an author on the blog in his own right!
Addendum:
Inverted the colours on the Bronco fire truck pic and voila! here's what it really looked like!
anyone had one?
Addendum:
Inverted the colours on the Bronco fire truck pic and voila! here's what it really looked like!
anyone had one?
Hi Woodsy,
ReplyDeletetook me quite a google coz I forgot what they're called, but could that green robot be a Macross Destroid Monster by any chance? I built two Imai kits from that range back in the Eighties (and painted them up in Desert Yellow, with parts coated in Zimmerit and sporting Desert Rat unit signs :) which I should still have knocking round in a box somewhere in the garage.
Compare with this:
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/DestroidMonster.htm
Best -- Paul
Sounds good to me Paul. Eighties manga and anime passed me by I'm afraid and I was never a kit Builder. Love the names though. Where do the Japanese come up with such fabulous names like Macross and Destroid!
DeleteDon't know anything about manga and anime either, Woodsy (though I do have two pages of Hokusai's manga framed on a wall :)
DeleteBut I liked these fighting droids, bit reminiscent of what's stomping through Star Wars, so bought a couple to build. Most of the rest are those weird transformer-type jets and whatnot which I just can't take seriously.
Best -- Paul
Ah, this is cool stuff, Woodsy. I love what you've done with your resources. Your mixing and matching has produced some astonishing hybrid results. My faves are pics 3 & 6. The pieces fit together like a futuristic jigsaw, plus, I like the inverted colour effect, although I've never seen the Bronco before :)
ReplyDeleteCheers Tone. Mash-ups are fun coz that's how we played as kids I reckon although after half a century I'm struggling to remember! Sometimes I wish my folks had been cine 8 buffs and taken some home movies of me and my sibs playing. We do have some photos but some film lasting a few minutes would be so great.
DeleteAnd then to my amazement I find Matchbox did kits of those as well, and that looks like a dead ringer for yours?
ReplyDeletehttp://dxrobo.com/matchbox-robotech-mac-ii-monster-destroid-cannon/
Best -- Paul
correction: diecast, not kit. -- P
DeleteThat's it! Well spotted Paul! I thought it had a look of Robocop about it and it was definitely die-cast. Cheers!
DeleteProlly the other way round, Woodsy, in that Macross predates Robocop.
DeleteGlad to've been of help
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Paul
Yes, its a Macross Destroid Monster, issued by Matchbox and Harmony Gold. Its a nice little toy. Ive got one somewhere along with a whole raft of the Imai kit versions too!
ReplyDeleteScope for a blog post methinks? :)
DeleteBest -- Paul