I love an unusual crop of Apollo Moon Exploring toys.
Here's a great one, a vending card of lovely space and monster toys.
Flanking both top edges are a pair of minty wheeled LP saucer cars from the Apollo Moon range.
How cool is that!
I saw this on Etsy.
What else can you identify readers? the monsters?
Was Space Wars the original name for Star Wars?
Ace find Woodsy. The little orange alien at the bottom right corner looks like it was inspired by the 1957 sci fi movie 'Invasion of the Saucer Men'. Some of my fave aliens in fact :)
ReplyDeleteDeffo Tone. I love these monsters and the rubber version of the Fire Demon - not here sadly - in this series is one of the few toy versions of the monster from Night of the Demon, my fave monster flick.
DeleteThe rubber aliens are erasers made by Deiner(or clever knock offs)and some of them(as Tony pointed out) are based on actual movie monster costumes.Pretty brazen use of "The Force"going on there.I wonder if that was not yet an official copyright at the time?
ReplyDeleteI love Deiner monsters and Palmer monsters too. I always wanted a stack on my old tpo stall. I bought some Palmers from the States but they got lost in the post years ago! I bet theres a website about Deiner Monsters somewhere Brian.
Delete'Space Wars' is about as close as you can get to Star Wars without bringing George Lucas banging on your door, probably 'The Force' wasn't trademarked back then, but ill bet it is now! Yellow saucer in the centre looks suspiciously like a Cylon Base Star from Battlestar Galactica, red fighter on upper left is a Draconian Marauder from Buck Rogers and the blue alien on the right is borrowed from the B Movie 'I Married a Monster from Outer Space'.Little brown chap centre bottom looks a bit like Bok from Dr Who's 'The Daemons'.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if bottom centre, the brown one, is derived from "Creature from the Black Lagoon"?
ReplyDeleteI see what you mean Andy. he is a strange one the brown fella. The Gillman, yes. And Bill's Bok is interesting too. That brings in the wings. I was thinking about Pazuzu the desert Demon on the Exorcist but that may just be too left field. Its more likely to to be a B movie we can't think of yet.
DeleteThat is the creature from a movie called Destination Inner Space
DeleteLooking at the other stuff: the two rings at the top - one is R2D2 and what appears to be a thin Samurai like Darth Vader? The pink figure on the right I reckon is the pink devil pictured on the backing card, although I don't recognise it. As regards Space Wars, I was thinking of the first name George Lucas came up with but it was The Star Wars and not Space Wars as I first thought. No idea what the little head is above the word Space. You?
ReplyDeletecant make out the pink dude on the photo properly, can just see the crippled R2D2 now. So that makes the little face above Space Wars, a loose take on C3PO
ReplyDeleteAs predicted there are lots of sites about Deiner monster rubbers but this is one that ID's them really well. See how you guys: http://neatocoolville.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-guess-most-of-us-have-our-little.html
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