I've always liked the Astro Launch toy in it's black and white design. Very Matt Mason. The box is like a Haynes manual! It's too recent for me to have had as a kid. What's it's programmed sequence do I wonder?
This old auction lot also came with an Italian boxed version, Vigilante. The ship is thinner with more colour to it. Which do you prefer readers?
The first toy on the left is the Project SWORD Scramble Bug, a favourite of mine as a kid!
Those are lovely
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DeleteAll are works of space toy art! SFZ
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DeleteI had the alternative version with fighters that bobbed up and down as it moved. The central section was a removable modular space station too. I got mine about 1981 Bill
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Fascinating! This design has legs! What happened to it Bill?
DeleteThe Scramble Bug is nice - I'm gonna have to look out for one!
ReplyDeleteIt was one of my fave toys as a kid Ed. Very flexible it is.
DeleteI only ever had the Scramble Bug as a cut out model as a kid. One of my early delights at discovering Moonbase Central was your archive of these old craft books!
ReplyDeleteThat Vigilante box art immediately reminded me of AMT's reissue of the Leif Erricson space craft (designed by Matt Jeffries!)
The white Astro Launch box art recalls a the ship on a Star Wars hardback kids book called the White Droid or White Witch. Can't remember exactly.
DeleteGlad we could help with the archive Looey!
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