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Thursday, 22 June 2023

ROB'S BULLMARK MEMORIES

Woodsy,

I managed to find a few images of vintage 70s Bullmark diecasts on eBay, and if memory serves, I had some of these figures. 

I know I had a Diapolon, a Mekanda, a UFO Warrior, and of course, Mecha-Godzilla. What I could not find evidence of were two magnificent SF vehicles in the same line; one was a colorful air/spacecraft, which had swing-out wings ala Thunderbird 1. 

The other was a boxy white tank vehicle with missiles and all the usual SF nonsense. 

I wonder what anime show they were from? 

Anyways, fond memories. I liked the boxes as much as the toys inside!

Rob C
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7 comments:

  1. WOODSY6/22/2023 10:05 am

    These are soooo cool Rob! I never saw anything like this in the UK in the 70's. Talk about appealing! I would be drawn to anything like this at a car boot sale! Nowadays its Bandai robots at them. I wonder if anyone knows those two mystery vehicles?

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    1. Anonymous6/22/2023 2:41 pm

      At the toy store where I worked in the late 70s, we had glass display cases for all of our diecast products. We carried Corgi, Dinky, Matchbox and Impy, and we managed to squeeze in about a dozen of the Bullmark line from Japan in there too. I recall they were fairly pricey even then, but we did sell some, and I bought the rest, at my boss’ generous employee discount. Sold them all at a tag sale in the 80s - oops! SFZ

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  2. Paul Adams from New Zealand6/22/2023 11:23 am

    Very nice figures. I would suggest trying the site Worthpoint, which has a lot of very good photos of various items. This is where I find most of my photos, other than those I take myself.

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    1. Anonymous6/22/2023 2:42 pm

      Good thought, Paul, I will try Worthpoint. I’d love to see those Bullmark SF vehicles again - they were most unusual. SFZ

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  3. lewis p morley6/22/2023 7:21 pm

    Nice die casts! I have three of those designs from my hard overseas hunting expeditions in the 1980s!

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  4. WOODSY6/23/2023 7:38 pm

    Gorgeous gear SF! I remember finding a Popy Grenzal a few years back at a German car boot. Looked a bit like your beauties.

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  5. Lance6/24/2023 2:20 pm

    Those are gorgeous, thanks for sharing them!
    I am presuming that your colorful plane was actually Varidorin (Varidreen) from Gorenger (Goranger) and the white boxy tank is Varitank from the same series.
    They were released internationally as well under the Shogun Warriors toy line as Vertilift and Varitank.

    https://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/1978/vertilift
    http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/1978/varitank

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