John Hunter, The proprietor of the Hamilton toy museum in Callander, Scotland, kindly sent me some snaps of the space toy display. I've never been, so it's always good to see some Project SWORD displays in public view, of which there can't be that many in the world. The glass doors are screwed shut so these are the best shots John could take ( for more views see the museum website).
For context here's a bigger Anderson display shot I found from a visitor on Tripadvisor.
Via John, Here's a Probe Force 3, a true staple of the Project SWORD fleet and cloned voraciously!
Next to it is this lovely JR21 Rocket Transporter, which some of you may have.
To the right is a nice Space 8 atop a SWORD Dyna Soar box, one of my favourite SWORD vehicles and based on a real NASA design.
If I'm not mistaken the strange grey orb to the left is a Mechanoid. Is that it's ladder?
Further along is this wonderful grouping including a JR21 SPV ( Terry recently showed us his Bandai version), a Century 21 Angel Interceptor and above, a blue Excavator, which appears much bigger than I thought it was.
The Captain Scarlet group of tall figures I'm unsure about. Anyone?
Perhaps the rarest item in the Anderson display is only partially visible. It's the SPC at the rear and it's the box that's rare and ..... maybe the only one known?* (* One is pictured on
Worthpoint as having been sold on eBay years ago but my guess is it's the same one as the Hamilton).
We've seen this SPC before, identified first in that display by Graeme Walker of Canada, whilst browsing Facebook no less and subsequently pictured again courtesy of the Hamilton museum 11 years back and wonderfully close-up: The Tarheel Project SWORD Captain Scarlet SPC.
Yep, that's right. American Tarheel Captain Scarlet Project SWORD! One of only two items branded as such we have ever seen on MC, the other being the equally seldom bubble-carded target set discovered by Darth in Michigan in 2016.
Have you been to the Callandar toy Museum?
Have you any Tarheel Project SWORD Captain Scarlet toys?
After 23 years, still takes my breath away!
ReplyDeleteLovely display! My C21 Spectrum SPC "fixer upper" car came from eBay with it's original box. A little worn, but otherwise intact.
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