Saturday, 28 February 2026

LONE STAR STINGRAY CAP GUN

 Here's the Lone Star 'Stingray' cap pistol, based on Lone Star's a popular and familiar space gun  design for kids in the fifties and sixties.

Lone Star did some slight retooling, adding the 'Stingray' name on each side, and repainting it in light turquoise green and orangey red. colours.


Unfortunately, it isn't  like the pistols used by Troy and Phones in the series, but at least it looked like a futuristic ray gun


Here's the box art showing Troy armed with his Lone Star pistol, and Stingray floating passed Marineville. What Stingray could fan in the sixties could resist that?



TV Century 21 offered a Lone Star cap gun as a competition prize in issue 38, dated October 9th, 2065.

The Dan Dare Dare, Space Ranger and Batman versions of the Lone Star die-cast gun.




In 1994, the Lone Star pistol made a cameo appearance on the front cover of 'Stingray' comic, thanks to artist, Steve Kyte, a long time fan of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's series.




2 comments:

  1. Proper space gun that is!

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  2. It is Kev. I wonder why Century 21 Toys didn't have a crack at this one too themselves rather than licensing it to Lone Star? A lovely toy gun though Scoop.

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