As I begin the final three days of my recuperative stay at home before I re-enter my 'old' working life I plan to do something this weekend I've meant to do for a while: to check whether all my Project SWORD toys have the correct badges.
By way of limbering up with my trusty coffee cup and faithful Moonbase hound by my side I thought I'd watch a few short films about Project SWORD toys and see how other people handle unboxing them and the badges.
Here's my absolute favourite SWORD unboxing - of a Scramble Bug. Its 'performed' by prolific toy You Tuber Tanaka Jun of Japan. I say performed as it does feel like a short Kabuki play or similar. I am entranced when I watch this guy's white-gloved hands! They are so methodical and reverential!
You'll notice that it looks like an almost mint boxed toy complete with all its inner card and tissue packaging, which is great to see for a SWORDie like me. I believe the bag in which the paper Manual is seen has been added for protection though and oddly enough I couldn't see a badge!
Here's another You Tuber, C J Campbell, unboxing his Project SWORD Space Glider five years ago. It s a much longer and noisier film as Mr. Campbell actually speaks and he is not as reverential with his toy, but to be fair its not a mint boxed specimen like Tanaka Jun's. Once again there's no badge.
It can't be embedded so click on the link [I think the repackaged Fireball XL5 toy he mentions towards the end could either be the JR21 Stingray Submarine Aircraft Carrier the Hover Space Bird, which looked a little like Fireball XL5. Neither of them are connected to Project SWORD]
https://youtu.be/xY9z1P2FjFM
It can't be embedded so click on the link [I think the repackaged Fireball XL5 toy he mentions towards the end could either be the JR21 Stingray Submarine Aircraft Carrier the Hover Space Bird, which looked a little like Fireball XL5. Neither of them are connected to Project SWORD]
https://youtu.be/xY9z1P2FjFM
My final bit of You Tube research before I unbox my own toys is this informative film about the Century 21 Zero-X by Modmart, who's films I've been enjoying for as long as I've been blogging. Modmart is passionate about his Gerry Anderson toys and a very knowledgable collector. As he points out his own Zero-X contains the incorrect blue plastic Astronaut badge. It should be the Supremo badge in white.
PS. let me know what you think of these films.
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