GRID STRIKER 1984 BY ECHO TOYS ON YOU TUBE

Knockoffs are always fun and those that fill a gap in the market are great fun.

Here's Echo Toy's 1984 Grid Striker explained by Black Tub Bootlegs admirably on You Tube.

Are these toys collectable?

Do you have one?

ECHO SPACE WALKER SEARCHER: A STAR WARS CUCKOO

I may have featured this before!

What the heck, its nearly Christmas!

Its The Space Walker - Space Searcher toy vehicle from Echo Toys 1984.

It was released to muscle its way into the Star Wars figures craze. 

Its what I call a cuckoo toy.

I've seen it in a window box and this whole box,

What's the Star Wars figure in the cockpit?

Anyone had one/ got one?

Grand Central Space Walker

With only 48 views I had to post this rather bizarre but oddly quaint You Tube film starring the Radio Shack Space Walker at Grand Central Station in New York City.

It defines perfectly the idea of placing vintage toys in modern settings for the sheer fun of it! The You Tube film is by Philip Reed.

You may remember I featured the Space Walker on the blog last week.

What do you think readers?

Is the Sears Space Mobile a Mattel Major Mat Mason Cuckoo?

Continuing my occasional theme of toys made by other companies so that well-known toys could be used with them [sort of like cuckoos!], I've probably blogged this before but the Sears Space Mobile seems to be just such a one.

With its antenna like the Firebolt Laser Canon's it seems to have been aimed at fans of Major Matt Mason toys and figures in the Sixties.

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Did a Mattel Major Matt Mason figure actually fit inside the pilot's seat on this toy?

Anyone know?

NB.

Talking to Bill about this I realise that This vehicle came with a plastic astronaut that looked like Matt 

Mason but was only four and a half inches tall.

In US toy catalogues the Sears Spacemobile was advertised alongside Major Matt Mason toys. I'm still uncertain if the Major could sit or stand in the Sears toy. Do you know?