Friday, 24 April 2026

I command You to have Fun Mate!

 More old auction shots, this time that neat six wheeled trundler from the Imperial Toys Apollo Moon Exploring carded range.

Here's a Funmate carded Space Command clone in orange, along with some blue space rock, radar and more.


Here's the Imperial original, the six wheeler in its FAB1 pink and a mini Major Matt lounging around on his ... Now what is that fabulous space vehicle called?


Which do you prefer? Funmate or Imperial?

3 comments:

  1. It's a Reconojet, Woodsy.
    Compared to the real thing here:
    https://triangspacextoys.info/SpGAderv/LPHK/LPhkSmTy/LPmRecJt/LPmRecJt.html

    Funmate is not a copy of Imperial as such. Both repackaged the range of toys made by LP, which LP also sold in its own packaging, as did others. Here's some of them
    https://triangspacextoys.info/SpGAderv/LPHK/LPhkCpPg.html#lpS7
    I've put Imperial on a page to themselves because they turn(ed) up more often so I believe their output was more important than the others.
    https://triangspacextoys.info/SpGAderv/APEX/AMEiCpPg.html
    Best -- Paul

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  2. Great toys, but why the weird pink? Maybe they had an overstock of pink plastic? They couldn't have possibly been aiming at girls, could they? SFZ

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