Will's New Mighty Drill

Hi Woodsy,

I know the Tomy space eight is a blog staple, but here’s my latest… from a toy fair last Sunday.

Will O

Anyone else got these 8's?

8 Wheel Mystery

I saw this on auction, an odd looking winged vehicle like a Thunderbirds transporter car welded to a formula 1 racer! 

Made in Japan. I can't read the Japanese script.

What do you think?!

8 Wheels to Tomy

 A stalwart of Tomy's space stable, it's 8 wheeled climber was a design classic. There are a number of variants and I'm unsure if this is the origin but it's a great example in that cool photo box. The blue rocket behind is another Tomy toy I think.

Do you have an 8 wheeler?

Bob's Space Construction truck Series by S.S. Kresge

Hi Woodsy,

I came across, and purchased off of Ebay (new toy to me) a space construction truck vehicle which appears exclusive to S.S. Kresge stores.

By the price tag, probably from late 60s. I could not find anything about it on the blog. It's friction powered. There appears to be three vehicles in the series.

Made in Hong Kong. It's similar to the more common Tomy Space Explorer (battery op) series of construction vehicles that's been discussed several times on the blog. 

Any info? 

 Pics attached.

Thanks,

Bob Aucutt

USA

8 WHEELS ON MY WAGON

 Where's there's one bug ....

.... there's usually more!

I saw this nest of hill climbing 8 wheelers on Etsy a while back. How cool are they!

Lovely things.

I would have loved them at Christmas as a baby boomer kid back in the Sixties.

You?

Moon Rescue

 Whilst browsing Todocolleccion I saw these neat space toys.

This is some sort of 8 wheeled space crane. 

The crane folds up at the rear. Something maybe missing on top.

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ADDENDUM FROM WILL O.

Hi Woodsy, Is this moon explorer a cousin of the crane posted here on the blog? The base looks similar.

Will O, UK

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This Spanish Rescate Lunar is very swish. A moon rescue craft. But which moon?

It's clearly some sort of futuristic pedalo.

There could be some this missing on top.

Do you like them?

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Postscript:

Extra shot of the Lunar Rescate by Bobby's/ Vansa

Courtesy of THE MILLION blog [reader Antionio Saz]

This shows the top radar, side rockets and the box inner tray. Anyone got the box?

and another toy branded Bobby's, which appears to be a brand of the company Vansa.

STOMPERS BY LANCE

On the Stomper version of the Flex the tires do not split. Same with the Stomper version of the Animal, the claws are always out.

Galoob made large versions of the Flex and Animal where the tires reacted. If the Flex ran into an obstacle, the hubs moved in and made the tires balloon out so it could go over it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tPAktnTq9o

The Animal had 'hidden' claws that would come out (3 per each tire) when it encountered difficulty. People confuse the Animal with the Claw which on the latter, the tires would split open revealing claws and extend the overall size of the tire to clear an obstacle.

Both the Animal and the Claw can be seen in this commercial compilation video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy_vM7VzBn0

( it also features a low quality of Tomy's Monster Machine that you might like)

Lance

USA

BROHM MOON TIPPER TRUCK; THE ALLRAD MOND KIPPER

I've owned a JR21 flyng saucer for some time.

The German version was called the Weltraum Erkunder by Brohm. Its pictured here on Brohm's marketing material.

Interestingly among the other Brohm space toys there's a moon truck shown above in yellow.

A classic 8 wheeler it would make a fine companion to the flying saucer orbiting the moon.

You can see more of this lovely moon truck on the brilliant Blechroboter.de

http://www.blechroboter.de/info/brohmmondroboter/index.html

Have you got anything like this?

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As an aside I've just noticed that the flying saucers shown look silver rather than the standard red.

The silver saucers suggest that they are the Poliplast version from Greece.

What do you think readers?

http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2016/02/polyplast-new-flying-saucer-made-in.html

THE GRATEFUL 8: SPACE BUSY TOYS

We've featured these 8 wheel space vehicles on the blog many times.

Here's a short Japanese video of what is probably a Tomy toy.

Have you got one?

TENTH BIRTHDAY MEMORIES: SPACE EIGHT: BILL'S 8 WHEELS ON MY WAGON POST FROM 2009

I've always had a love of ground based space vehicles, especially anything with wheels or tracks and recently I managed to grab a new addition to my collection. The Tomy Space Climbing Mobile, besides being a great toy, also brought with it a host of questions that blog readers will be familiar with - the old chicken and egg scenario.

Cosmetically, the toy is almost the same as the Sears Moon Mobile I blogged a while ago, but also has similarities to Tomy's other line of Space Eight toys. The larger Tomy vehicle shares the same basic chassis as the Sears toy, but the upper Hull is radically different. This begs the question as to which was made first ? The Sears toy has a jointed pilot that looks very like a Matt Mason toy, but the Tomy one has the same styling as the later Space Eight toys.

The S8 vehicles are much smaller and all plastic. They were also marketed as Space Construction Vehicles and came with a variety of other styles including a tipper and a large grab. However, the Tomy Space Climbing Mobile is a large, powerful toy and came almost complete, it was just missing the radar screen that it shares with the Sears truck.

Bill B
2009

8 wheel grabber

From Japan via You Tube.

Anyone got anything like this?