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Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Dan Dare Cosmic Ray Gun

Continuing the jet age toys theme on the blog here's a look at Palitoy's Dan Dare Cosmic Ray Gun I found on You Tube.

Its by Storminatwork from 2011.

Anyone got one?

2 comments:

Terranova471/12/2018 3:58 pm
This is one example of the various feeble toy guns offered with Dan Dare branding. To be effective it had to be used in total darkness and the coloured light beam went about four feet.

Another fired spinning discs which if you stood on a chair and fired directly at the ceiling might work like a spinning top for a few seconds.

Another pistol was just a grip with a 6" long pencil thin barrel. A five foot length of thick paper was rolled around the barrel with one end glued to it. You held the grip, lifted the gun vertically then threw your arm forward so the paper shot out and hit the target. To reload you had to roll the paper back around the barrel!

At least Lone Star issued a cap pistol designed as a ray gun. This was later painted different colours and sold as other licensed brands such as Batman.

The other hand gun offered was a reasonable copy of the paralyzing pistol shown in the Dan Dare strip. It was a rather leaky water pistol and was a copy of a US toy that may have been the artist's inspiration in the first place given how it was designed.
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