Sunday, 6 July 2025
Thursday, 5 December 2024
The X-90 Flying Saucer Car
The X-series is thought by most collectors to be part of JR21's toy output. This X-90 is a fabulous example I saw on auction so I saved the snaps ages ago.
A wonderfully streamlines plastic space car that ejects flying rotors like the Major Matt Mason launcher many of us had as kids.
A really gorgeous toy, the model number is #241.
What do you think?
Saturday, 1 June 2024
JR21 THUNDERBIRD 2: ITS STORY HAS LEGS!
I've been researching the legs of JR21 Thunderbird 2's of late, you know, the retractable part metal/ part plastic rods with those cute button feet.
As far as I can tell there are two colours, red and white.
Having read up on the subject in various places, it would appear that the red ones were released with the HPM version of the toy - thats Herts Plastic Moulders i.e the initial and UK version [the one later partly filled with sweets 'cos they couldn't source the friction drives!]
HPM then lost the contract to a Hong Kong factory and the resultant JR21 logo'd [2 versions of logo positioning] Thunderbird 2 had white legs.
Is this your understanding readers?
Which one have you got?
Friday, 10 May 2024
SPECTRUM IS ....LINCOLN GREEN?
I recently saw this bundle of JR21 SPC accessories described as Lincoln. Was the Lincoln SPC the same as the JR21 toy?
Friday, 29 March 2024
Saturday, 16 March 2024
WILL'S WONDERFUL BOX OF WONDROUS UNWANTED TOYS!
Monday, 5 February 2024
Jumping for Joy
Italy's Quercetti is well known for rockets and parachutes.
Their JR21 marketed Fireball XL5 has featured here many times, as has the Mach-1 and TOR.
These toys incorporated a small blow moulded parachutist and chute.
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
TADA! Tommy Buster! JR21 legendary Toy Rifle
Monday, 3 April 2023
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
21 CARROTS
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
JOE 90'S MACS CAR in GAMES AND TOYS MARCH 1969
Monday, 20 February 2023
DRUMMING UP BUSINESS
Monday, 28 November 2022
WILL O'S TV21 FIREBALL XL5
From Will's new TV21 comics collection, his JR21 XL5 parachuting spaceship and the ad in a November 1965 edition of the comic.
Did you have one of these XL5's or the other rockets advertised?
Thursday, 14 July 2022
ELF TOYS THUNDERBIRDS LAYOUT
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Sunday, 27 February 2022
OK TOYS NEW FLYING SAUCER?
I wonder if this OK Toys DB flying saucer is a variation of the JR21 New Flying Saucer? What do you think? JR21 link in the labels below the post.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-space-ship-db-battery-526427967
Friday, 3 December 2021
SPANISH FLYING SAUCER TOYS: NAVE ESPACIAL
This is a lovely old flying saucer toy I saw on Spain's Todocollecion, the Nave Espacial by Kuxan
I really like the box art.
Wednesday, 23 June 2021
THE ORIGIN OF THUNDERBIRD 5: THE TOY AND THE TV MODEL
I've long pondered how Century 21 Toys/ JR21 Toys made the Thunderbird 5 toy in the Sixties and often perused the web and books for hints as to what the parts were from.
I say parts because its been long conjectured by collectors that the C21/ JR21 TB5 toy was made up of other existing toys. In other words the main brown body and the engine were from existing toys.
Ten years ago I posed this same question and I established a link between the toy's clone by Soma and an obscure ice crusher! Whether this assisted in the search for the origin of the JR21 toy I don't know, but you can read it here https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-saucer-full-of-secrets-soma.html
Have you any idea what the original toy was readers? is it a toy you own? Do you like it?
What is a bit clearer is the way Derek Medding's team made the actual Thunderbird 5 model for the TV show as some research has already been done by long-time Andersonist Marc J .Frattasio back in 1996! Published on the SuperM site, Thunderbird 5's origin can be found at the end of the Thunderbirds vehicles page http://lester.demon.nl/superm/tech/sfx/tbirds/models0.html
Do you like Thunderbird 5 readers? Is it an effective model and design for the show?
Thursday, 22 April 2021
DO YOU KNOW WHAT FAB3 WAS?
I've always loved FAB1 - like most kids of my age. Its just one of those TV cars that was the perfect form of style and looks and drove straight into the showroom of our memories.
FAB2 was Lady Penelope's yacht, which we've blogged about once or twice. Not sure if Parker was the pilot or whether FAB1 went on board. It would have made a great JR21 toy, maybe using the Vosper toy as its basis. Would that have worked?
Amazingly there was a FAB3 too! I only found out today. I could never have guessed and I had to chuckle when I read it. It was Lady Penelope's racehorse! Now I've no idea if it appeared on TV and whether Parker was the jockey. Not sure it would have been a decent JR21 toy, but they did release at least three other small toy horses, the Rocking Neddy, Piggy Chariot and Cowboy Joe.
Now please don't tell me: there was a FAB4 too?
Thursday, 24 December 2020
SANTA'S ON HIS WAY
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CHECKLISTS BY BRAND (FOR COUNTRY BY COUNTRY SEE TOP OF BLOG)
PROJECT SWORD SPACEX TIMELINE
- 1968 SPACEX LT10 CONCEPT
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER REAL THING
- 1969 LUNAR CLIMBER & MOONSHIP
- 1968 PROJECT SWORD ANNUAL
- 1968 TV21 #168 PROJECT SWORD PHASE 2
- 1968 PLEASURE CRUISER CONCEPT
- 1968 CENTURY 21 TOY MANUAL
- 1967 SCOUT 1 CONCEPT
- 1967 NUCLEAR FERRY TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER CONCEPT
- 1966 HOVERTANK IN COMIC
- 1966 NUKE PULSE NEEDLEPROBE IN COMIC
- 1966 ZERO X FILM DEBUT
- 1966 MOONBUS IN COMIC
- 1966 SPACE PATROL 1
- 1966 P3 HELICOPTER IN COMIC
- 1966 SAND FLEA AND SNOW TRAIN
- 1966 MOBILE LAUNCH PAD IN COMIC
- 1965 SPACEX MOONBASE CONCEPT
- 1965 APOLLO FIRST UK TOY AD
- 1962 NOVA CONCEPT
- 1962 MOONBUS CONCEPT
- 1961 MOON PROSPECTOR CONCEPT
- 1953 MOLAB CONCEPT