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.
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.
Proper space gun that is!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, Kev. I think most kids had one version or another, or at least played with a mate's back in the sixties The Dan Dare one did seem to everywhere when I was a youngster.
DeleteIt 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.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed, Woodsy. I suppose AP films/ JR 21 hadn't really started producing their own line at that point. That changed with Thunderbirds, of course.
DeleteLuv it! I don't have many space guns or ray guns in the collection but love seeing what's all out there.
ReplyDeleteI'm like you, Ed, I don't have many toy ray guns in the collection, and the ones I'd like always seem to be well over priced nowadays.
DeleteIf I could swing it, I'd love to have the Daisy Buck Rogers gun from the '30s
DeleteSounds expensive, Ed.
DeleteThey are!
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