Its traditional to get some breaking news on the Moonbase bloggiversary and this year we have two lovely bits!
Japanese carded Scouts
Super SWORD collector Arto has now all three of the Japanese blister carded Project SWORD Scouts, having tracked down the elusive white space boat Scout 1.
Difficult enough to locate in their normal UK boxed guises, these Japanese rack versions are like those itinerant hens' teeth.
Feast your eyes on a seldom seen trinity of Japanese SWORD in all their blister glory!
What do you think?
American Durham Space Glider
Over a decade ago a green version of the Tarheel Space Glider surface. It was released by Durham Toys. Super SWORD collector Arto has had it in his collection ever since and no other example has been seen.
Until now!
I saw one loitering in an auction earlier in the year. It was Stateside and inaccessible to me in the UK. With generous help from reader Terranova47 and co-blogger Wotan [thankyou!] I was able to secure this second example for the Project SWORD collection here at Moonbase.
The Glider has come home and is now the new star of my Space Glider fleet.
I hope you like it.
Those Sword scouts are nice. (Still missing an ordinary scout 3!).
ReplyDeleteThey are fab aren't they. The Japanese ones are rare as hen's teeth, so I reckon you'll pick up a C21 one eventually Kev!
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