1993 was a great year for SPV's!
Here's two of the smaller versions.
This is the die-cast SPV, which I assume is the vehicle inside the big box video set I posted today. This is its more common bubble card sold as a rack toy.
Is it a straight copy of the Dinky toy my generation had as kids in the 60's?
This is another small 1993 SPV, this time an all plastic version. I've found a few of these at car boot sales and sold them on in the past. I think it was a talking toy. I always found them loose.
What packaging did it come in?
Never knew there was a 90s resurgence of Captain Scarlet merch. Of course it makes sense due to the VHS releases. I was onto other things at the time, and I didn't think at all about the Supermarionation universe for many years - isn't that awful?
ReplyDeleteThe ONE thing I wish I had saved from my dozen moves over the years were my Dinky Toys Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet vehicles. MAN, those were nice!
It was smaller than the Dinky version, but had the same features - except the Captain Scarlet figure on the chair didn't swing down when the door opened. (Later Dinky versions didn't either.) The second one you show was perhaps just a plastic version of the first Vivid one. Vivid later did a plastic version, which was the same size as the Dinky one, but the side door didn't open - it had an ejector seat that came out of a hatch on the top (if I recall rightly). Vivid later did an even larger version, which was similar to the JR21 SPV.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kid. Very informative. You know your SPVs! As it happens I have the big Vivid version.
DeleteI think Britain was going through a period in the 1990s when many of the Gerry Anderson shows were being repeated on television. It was at this time that Matchbox and Vivid Imaginations produced their Stingray, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet die-casts. The only ones I had at the time were the Matchbox Thunderbird 1 and 3, and a small Vivid Spectrum Patrol Car.
ReplyDeleteI never had any of the Dinky die-casts in the 1960s, or any other Gerry Anderson toys. In the 1970s I did get the Airfix kit of the Angel Interceptor, which is still in its box somewhere. I now have a few models, but have a long way to go before I have a complete set. What is odd is that Dinky only ever did two Thunderbirds models: FAB 1 and Thunderbird 2 (in two sizes) but no Thunderbird 1, 3, etc. If you look at Dinky model numbers there were gaps left between the two Thunderbirds models and the first non-Thunderbird model, which I assume were intended for further Thunderbird models, which were never produced. Later these gaps were filled in, but these numbers were used out of sequence. Perhaps the Dinky experts know the answer to this question.