On ebay recently was a little yellow 1980's space car, that I had come across many times and never felt the need to buy and alongside it from the same seller were a small lot of space items, namely a moonrock, astronaut, telescope and piece of equipment. It was a slow day, so I invested £3 and bid on the loose items. A few days later, I decided to check in to Hugh Walters wonderful Small Scale World blog and see what goodies he had found in the world of figures and toys.
Trawling along and catching up on the last few months, I found this entry:
Which shows the space car as a Slo-Mobile which if you check Hughs blog article is a motorised friction drive that chugs slowly along, rather than whizzing off. The little vehicle was packaged with other items that I suddenly realised were the ones I had just bought - the seller had clearly not realised they went together!
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Hugh recognises the figures as those having been released as a rack toy from Toyway and I have one or two from this series. Not terribly well made, but the clincher for me was the moon rock, which brings to mind the Apollo Moon Exploring and LP rock pieces from the sixties space sets.
When I looked again, the buggy had been bought by someone else, but my lot arrived today and I am quite pleased with them.
Its unusual to find any actual space equipment with the figures, so I arranged the scope and the figure in one of the classic poses so reminiscent of the Chesley Bonestell paintings, with the giant planet Jupiter rising overhead.
Love that final set up Wotan.
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Yeh, that last shot is pure SF heaven!
DeleteBottom photo looks great- despite your comments, I think the spacemen look pretty good, but perhaps having had so many Hong Kong spacemen as a kid, my standards are low?!!
ReplyDeleteNot sure I would want to be there with all that hard radiation Mish! Andy - being a devotee of the Golden Astronaut, anything else just doesn't cut the mustard!
ReplyDeleteNot sure I would want to be there with all that hard radiation Mish! Andy - being a devotee of the Golden Astronaut, anything else just doesn't cut the mustard!
ReplyDeleteMust say that last pic is a stunning! Sharp work, Bill
ReplyDeleteThanks Tony, amazing what you can do with a plastic astro and an astronomy book!
DeleteSo you're saying I have to find a fecking gold set now . . . is there no end to it, will death be the final release . . . !
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This made me laugh Hugh!
DeleteDon't panic Hugh - its still silver - just got a filter on the photo!
DeleteWoodsy - but am I joking! ;-) Wotan - Phew!
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Fab post Wote. A space set I've never seen before [thanks Wote and Hugh's super small scale site] and to top it all a mindbending cosmic panorama at the end. That is such a great photograph Wote. Those little fellas facing the might of the glorious nebulae. It reminds me of Jack Coggins.
ReplyDeleteIts sposed to be the view from Ganymede Woodsy, staring into the Great Red Spot!
ReplyDeleteThere's a similar picture in that Coggin's book I blogged t'other day.
DeleteI always look at Mike Burrow's photographs with envy, gonna' try a bit of it when I'm settled in my new place . . . or if!
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Best of luck settling in your new fixed abode Hugh.
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