A Bloggiversary Special: Arto's Plastic Space Bird Get-Together

Here are my Space Birds.

But which one of the birds came first? To me the Hoover blue bird with its illustrated box comes across as the elder. Or maybe both were released simultaneously. 

I'mIt is interesting that the Hoover toy has the logo alongside the item number on its hull, while the Hover one has the number only. - What do we know about the Hoover / Hover connection?

Toys that have all the same distinct perpendicular side wings, first seen on Fireball XL5 and then on the Submarine Aircraft Carrier with C21 ( Century 21) logos on them, and on Space Birds with SB 6 markings, is a lovely feature, which gives the toys their aura.

Funny also that the both the Submarine Aircraft Carrier and the Space Birds are extremely rare. These toys should have been mass-produced, so why the scarcity? 

Never seen any other SB's on the net except for these two examples. It was a lucky strike of a lifetime that I chanced to visit Sandown Park in 2016.

Or maybe one day the doors of a forgotten storage will be opened and there will be a flock of Space Birds flying around the net, just like what happened with the LP Space Motorcycle this year!

Arto

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