We've had this toy gun rattling round the blog for years, the ECHO gun used in Gerry Anderson's UFO TV series.
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I just love the wood-effect formica-style grip! They left it on for UFO too! I think they may have had a different barrel tip or maybe just painted it silver.
You can see a sort of review on You Tube as part of an American shop. Importantly, you can hear the loud echoey sound it makes!
What do you think?
Like most toy designs it got to see the light of day again and like any decent echo just kept on coming.
There's often one lurking on Ebay USA somewhere.
Here's two more versions, all with E serial numbers on the side and like the one above, made in Taiwan.
Chitech's Magna Force [maybe they are all made by Chitech, who's most popular toy online appears to be a three-headed plastic dragon!]
and another re-packaged one that came in both orange and blue boxes.
The eco gun appeared in the UFO TV episode Exposed but as I've no access to that I can't say if the production team simply used the sound the toy made or did something else with it?
Does anyone know?
Timmy watched this last night. The gun appears about 15mins from the end and gets plenty of screentime from then on. The last inch of the barrel is painted silver, it lets out a puff of smoke each time its fired, and to me sounds nothing like that in the youtube clip.
ReplyDeleteFascinating Timmy. So they changed the sound. I'm assuming UFO used the toys as props. What do you think?
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