Lifting the Lid on the Lincoln Air Strike

Hi Woodsy,

I saw your recent post on the Lincoln International Air Strike Moving Target game – fascinating fun to play in competition or alone. This was one I did not know, and even after some digging, I could not find very much information – it is a really obscure toy.

It is by Lincoln International, and Made in Hong Kong. I would say around the 1960s or 1970s.

The game comprises two clear plastic balls, one inside the other. The inner ball rotates, driven by a wind-up clockwork motor, with a key on the side of the toy.

Both balls have holes in them, and the object of the game appears to be to shoot projectiles through the holes in the outer ball, in to the inner ball, when the holes are aligned. The projectiles come in two colours, so you can tell which player it the best shot.

Two jet planes are mounted on the ends of detachable arms. The jets look to be chrome-plated, and might be based on the North American F-100 Super Sabre, although that is a bit of a guess.

The projectiles are loaded in to the nose of each aircraft, a striker is pulled back, and released firing the missile. One sales listing for the toy gives the dimensions as 24 inches across when assembled, and 6 inches high.

Five photographs from Worthpoint.

Paul Adams from New Zealand