THE CHERILEA ON TOP

Ebay classified are huge in Germany and many choice items can be found.

I spotted this Cherilea rocket launcher. I've not seen it before so I kept the pics.

Its not one I had as a kid, I imagine it can be placed on top of a vehicle like the Jeep maybe? I did have Cherilea vehicles for my Action Man, the armoured car and the motorbike.

Did you have some Cherilea toys?

ED'S MARX SPACEMEN

Woodsy and Fellow Moonbasers,

I loved seeing Wotan's photos of his Cherilea spacemen. 

Also, I'm now on the lookout for a suitable Lunar 'pod' or similar - some little accessory piece in-scale to the figures to use in photos. It's funny how the Tri-ang, Golden Astronaut, LP line of spacemen have a plethora of nice, suitable accessories in-scale (more-or-less) to the small figures. 

Then when we get to 35mm/54mm/60mm sized figures I don't see a whole lot. Either I'm not looking hard enough or lack the imagination to see what might be appropriate..

Here's shots of my Marx-issued Cherilea-style spacemen. None of them have bases as the originals did and the Marx logo was molded into the belts on all of them. 

I found these to be a bit frustrating in that, due to the lack of bases, the legs were often bent/malformed such that they were impossible to stand up. I had to use the boiling water-dip method to straighten the legs sufficiently for photography purposes.

From Vegas Base

Ed

SUNNY SMILES DOWN THE SECOND HAND TOY AISLES

There was further mooching in a local town yesterday.

One charity shop had this bookcase full of old stuff including an interesting yellow plastic Easy Adder, which I'd never seen before.

The Fuzzy Felt Fairy Tales caught my eye too. There was always a Fuzzy Felt set on the go when I was a kid like the Farm or the Zoo.

 

Another shop was selling bundles of plastic figures, which I snapped up as I thought they looked interesting, mostly Fortnite and Roblox.

The large big Optimal Optimus at the back came home with us as did the Power Rangers robot.

The biggest purchase of the day were these large mint boxed Strike Force vehicles by Sunny Smile, the US Jeep and the Patrol Boat. For Action Man and similar 12 inch figures I was pleased with these and thought the £15 each reasonable for a Charity shop.

Reminiscent of the classic Cherilea vehicles I had as a kid for my Action Man, I bought and sold quite a few Sunny Smile vehicles like the truck and tank in the noughties but I've never got hold of them mint and boxed like these.

Would any of these been of interest to you readers?

Did you ever own any Sunny Smile vehicles or the earlier Cherilea toys?

CHERILEA SPACEMEN AND TIBIDABO

Continuing the Cherilea Mechanoid/ Space Pod thread here's one of many older posts on Moonbase Central. Over the last 10 years they've popped up a number of times.

This 9 year old post looks at Cherilea spacemen. I've included the three old comments from the time in this edited post too as they were very relevant.

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2009

Continuing with the unusual Italian range LUNIK 2000 I have stumbled across this wonderful example on Ebay. It appears that the toys are made by one Caligaris Tibibabo

The box art is truly stunning and amazingly it is SIGNED! Alas I can't read the signature. If only SWORD box art was signed like this!

Blog friend the Philosophic Toad has pointed out the that the cockpits of the this and the previously posted Lunik 2000's appear to be slightly different - apart from the colour scheme. 

Also, the pilots differ; different poses and colours. The interesting thing is that they look like Cherilea Spacemen [below] but with most of the accoutrements removed. Compare with the very top image. Philo Toad believes that the pilot resembles them minus whatever he's holding up. 

The pilot resembles the pose of the Cherilea Spaceman at top-right (the one in red) but minus the axe-thing. What do other readers think? Cherilea Spacemen do appear in both white and silver versions. 

Did this company buy Cherilea Spacemen and modify them by hand? Or did it make new moulds, leaving the figures hands-free?

Mille Grazie Philosophic.

Woodsy

PS. One other toy I've seen, a train set, is by Caligaris Tibibabo.

PS2. LUNIK was originally the name of the Russian robot moon probe programme!

Wotan:

THE astronauts and capsule at the top were originally made by Cherilea. The capsule is actually a re-used Dr Who Mechanoid mould with a stand added! Rare as hens teeth!

The Philosophic Toad:

I think it is Tibidabo not Tibibabo.

The editor of Plastic Warrior tells me that Tibidabo had a contract to market Cherilea figures. So it would seem that the Lunik pilots are indeed Cherilea Spacemen, or variants of them.

Barrington Bond:

On the side of the Lunik 2000 box the left hand spaceship looks rather like a craft Frank Bellamy drew when he was doing Dan Dare.

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