I've always been fascinated by Lincoln International's Mr.Rock figure.
So when I saw this Mr. Rock Cosmic Space Flyer I was intrigued.
Mr. Rock was a mid-Seventies knock-off of Mego's Mr. Spock action doll.
From Spock to Rock. That was easy!
The original blister carded figure, a prized collectable, came with an Action Man style flare gun and a cheaper pink doll radio. A sort of pick n mix from various different toys.
Mr. Rock must have done OK for Lincoln if they then decided to release a Cosmic Space Flyer. It shares similar card art and pictures the man himself flying over, where? Vulcan?
Further Googling revealed that the Cosmic Space Flyer was given away by Plaid Stallions Toy Ventures magazine #5.
Incidentally, when I first saw Mr. Rock online on sites like Megocollector ( it's their picture above) and Plaid Stallions I had thought he was made by Lion Rock, a toy firm I associate with Bradgate and my beloved Little Big Man in the Sixties.
Alas, Mr.Rock and Little Big Man don't know each other.
Do you know Mr.Rock?
Not a very spacey name is it 'Mr Rock'.
ReplyDeleteSurely 'Mr Zock' or 'Mr Grock' would have been more Sci Fi.
I do wonder Mish if it was Lincoln's in-joke at Mego's expense [Mego released Mr. Spock]. The manufacturing wing of Mego was ..... Lion Rock, which I didn't know up to a minute ago! http://megomuseum.com/lion/lionrock.shtml
DeleteI can still recall vividly the day I was browsing in my local Hobby Shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut, circa 1968, and saw a Lincoln International Thunderbird 4 on the shelf! In the old style box! I thought I had died and gone to heaven!
ReplyDeleteThat Lion Rock link is interesting. I had a number of "$2 Shop" soldier figures in the 1/12 sized range. My wife used the US Fighter Pilot as a dead body when she built a crime scene diorama for the Sydney Police Museum!
ReplyDeleteHa ha. Those little big men get everywhere Looey!
DeletePerhaps the name was a play on Spock. The model is similar to him
ReplyDeleteIt is Khusru, a knockoff of the Mego Mr. Spock.
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