Space Oddities

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:

 https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2021/08/o-is-for-original-generic-primogenitor.html

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!

Courtesy of Small Scale World

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.