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I saw this SpaceX and Apollo Moon Exploring lot ages ago and kept the snap. Just looking again I cannot work out what the paperwork is. Can you? There's a curled paper next to the Zeroid and there's a small something below the Cruiser 1. An antenna?
Any idea?
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This is just one picture of the huge array of different blisters found over the last few years containing varying assortments of LP and Apollo Moon Exploring toys.
This Toy House one even has the Billy Blastoff miniature space car or 'space sled'.
Paul Vreede's fab SpaceX website features many more of these sets as does the prolific Space Trucks You Tube channel of Steve Nyland. See the links below.
Have you blisters like these?
If you have some Apollo Moon Exploring toys you may have the rectangular silver double reflector gizmo seen here in this blister on Worthpoint.
Well, here's the story of the real thing, the Lazer Ranging Retro Reflector or LRRR. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knugI-LiAME
STOP PRESS!
Kevin has kindly pointed out that the toy is a miniature of the Apollo Seismometer and not the LRRR! Doh! Thanks Kev. I should have gone to Specsavers!
I saw this on auction earlier in the year and kept the pic. Some of the spacemen and space toys have been painted, possibly by a kid. I think the X's mean they've not been painted.
Did you ever paint your toys?
I saw this lot on Ebay a while ago described as possibly Marx or Giant brand vehicles and figures. Many of these you'll recognise as SpaceX. Golden Astronaut and Apollo Moon Exploring.
The vehicle I like the most is the small orange space car in the middle, which is popping up more and more these days. it seems to me. You never used to see that much it really.
The little orange baby car appears in various sets and packs and is a miniature clone of the larger Billy Blastoff space car, which some of you may have had or still have.
Do any of you have the orange car or big Billy Blastoff uncle readers?
I watched Grizzly last night on You Tube - on the TV! Not Grizzly Adams, although I did enjoy that series and regret not getting any of the toy figures, but Grizzly the wilderness 'horror' film of the 1970's.
As you can imagine its about a Grizzly bear running amok in an American National Park and eating the campers. There are some tense moments amongst the ranger chatter, especially as the beast approaches its prey and virtually no-one goes home without a bear hug.
It was panned at the time of its release as a brazen JAWS clone and to be fair there are many elements that the director has nicked from Speilberg: the der-der music during stalking, the flying severed arm and most starkly, the ending, which I've leave at that in case you watch it!
But I enjoyed GRIZZLY. I always wanted to be a National Park ranger in the UK. I studied nature conservation for 3 years including national park management but alas in the 80's all the jobs were in Cities and I ended up part of the urban conservation 'industry' and got based in a Leeds environmental charity, where I stayed for 20 years! I am a creature of habit if nothing else! I certainly never came across any Grizzly bears.
I also like GRIZZLY because it captures something I imagine has gone in the US, the atmospheric olde-worlde mountain restaurant where the walls are made of redwood logs and the big wood fire is always burning, casting a soft light onto healthy-looking hikers sipping brandy from huge bowled glasses. Aah.
It also reminds me of two other films I enjoyed; Prophecy about a mutated bear monster and the very similar Snowbeast repleat with chisel-jawed mountain men too. Grizzly was very successful financially and I bet it beat these two into a cocked hat.
GRIZZLY had one 'official' bit of merchandise as far as I can tell and its quite sought after by the looks of it: the GRIZZLY rubber bear by Imperial Toys [yes, they who brought us Apollo Moon Exploring!].
The Imperial bear seems to have been an example of the 'hey, quick, slap a header card on that old toy and get it in the shops and we'll make a few bucks!" school of marketing!
They already had a growling polar bear in stock and when GRIZZLY came out they painted it and shipped it out. I imagine the header card was the first thing to go and few will have survived unlike the tough rubber bear.
Having said that I found this pic online of three Imperial Grizzlies all with their 'official' card labels present and correct! Looking at it again I see that the word Grizzly, in its correct film font, is TM'd on the card. Could Imperial have actually got a licence for this toy?
Did you or do you have a Grizzly?
