Hi. Here are some pictures of the Topper Rocket Base USA.
My late father used to tell me that people would see the window display and come into the toy shop wanting to buy the toy, but when he gave them the actual object as pictured here, they used to say no no, I want the one like the one in the window!
He had to explain that it was all packed in to the small box and they would get everything that they saw in the window, but without the surrounding display of course.
The third and fourth pictures are Tudor Rose's X-400 Space Explorer with box.
and the fifth and sixth pictures are tinplate Japanese battery operated toys who’s design looks very familiar! All the best.
Will.
Now thats packaging. Whats a cool display. I remember getting that set for xmas in the big cardboard container and my dad spending ages putting the waterslide decals on the rockets. As soon as it was ready, I blasted an Atlas into the air, landed it in the little xmas tree we had on the sideboard and fused the lights! My dads face was a picture.
ReplyDeleteThat very scene is more or less how a monster is defeated in the film The Gate Wote! ha ha great memory.
DeleteLove, love, love those toy Thunderbird 1 knockoffs! I even had one of them back in the day, but did not manage to hold onto it. Foolishly swapped it in a trade for Magic Beans or some such nonsense...
ReplyDeleteMy TB1 knock-off was one of those two versions of the Solar-X, but I can't recall which paint scheme it was. It really worked, too - amazing!
DeleteMagic Beans? I hope you planted one and got a beanstalk at least Zigg!
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