Jet-packs come up on MC and someone mentioned Gilbert having made the James Bond version. A little digging turned up some photos, and it seems the Jet-pack used the same set of tanks as the Scuba diving set, but with different fittings.
I do not know anything about Action Figures, so these notes are all based on photographs. There may well be other variations.
The Jet-pack seems to have been moulded in light blue, and have a silver bar across the top for the exhausts.
The Scuba tanks were either light blue or yellow, and had a gauge on the back of the tanks, with an air-hose.
Four photographs from Worthpoint.
have you got anything like this readers?
Paul Adams from New Zealand
As a kid I had some of the Gilbert Moon McDare range, namely Moon's full suit and his dog. The oxygen pack was a reused scuba unit as I recall...
ReplyDeleteThose McDare toys were fab. He had a space dog! Not sure if I had any. Did anything survive the ravages of space and time Looey?
DeleteThey were stolen from my house by a friend of a friend. I layer found them covered in crayon at the perpetrator's house.
DeleteNot one if my best childhood memories.
Blimey! Caught red handed ... almost. What a plonker that kid was to nick your stuff.
DeleteCool! For some odd reason, I never got into the Bond movies until I was a bit older and they started appearing on TV. I don't know why because I enjoyed the heck out of 'I Spy', 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E' and even 'Secret Agent Man' and 'The Avengers'. Maybe because I was a TV-holic and not much of a movie goer.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Bond was a cinema spy wasn't he. You had to be there. There were many more on the telly weren't there like you say. I have to say my faves were The Avengers. Peel and Steed were simply hypnotic. Diana Rigg was born in Doncaster just down the road from Moonbase too!
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