KEVIN'S NEW BLAKES 7 TOY SPACESHIP

Got the 3rd one of the 4 Jotastar Cosmic Strikeforce ships.

Kevin

UK

Only one to go now!

THE BLAKES' 7 STAR TREK BLUE BOX SHUTTLEPOD: A COSMIC COINCIDENCE?

Hi,

As seen on MC, I posted a picture of my Blake's 7 Cosmic Strikeforce spaceship on the Replica Props Forum.

Someone said it looked like the shuttlepod from Star Trek Enterprise. I've not seen it but nabbed these images from a Google search. It really does!

What do you think?

Shuttling off,

Kevin

UK

BLAKES 7: COSMIC KEVIN'S HAWK

Hi,

Managed to snaffle this incredibly rare, carded Blake's 7 toy. Even when I was a serious collector, I never managed a carded one.

It's all out there somewhere,

Kevin

UK

MY BLAKE'S 7 JOTASTAR FALCON

These were my very first group shots of the start of my collection in 1990.

There's a lot of happy memories here not least my first re-found Project SWORD toy and annual.

But its the small silver and red rocket that I want to look at a bit more. Its the one in the top picture bottom left.

I didn't know what it was at the time but I later realised it was a Blue Box-style spaceship minus its wings.

I say style because I don't have this toy anymore and can't be sure what brand it was. It may well be on one of my old toy price lists that I sent out in the post.

The interesting thing is that I don't recall seeing another one like it in all the years since. There are many versions of the Blue Box space toys but not this gunmetal grey one.

Here's a typical Blue Box ship I sold on the card probably 15 years later. You can see all the fins and wings are missing on my grey one above.

But then in the summer of 2017, 17 years after finding it at a car boot sale, I was able to finally ID my silver grey spaceship.

No wonder I couldn't find another one. Its the very uncommon Falcon from the Blakes 7 Cosmic Strikeforce carded series by Jotastar.

image: ollie/ Horizon Blake's 7 Online

I blogged it at the time but still feel chuffed AND miffed that I had one but didn't know it!

Anyone got any of the Jotastar Cosmic Strikeforce?

The price tag above says J.J.Toys. Anyone know it?

jotatstar eagle and the blake's 7 gauda prime ships

Earlier I posted a link to a forum thread about Blake's 7 toys 

http://www.blakes7online.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=1836&pid=93084

The thread mentions the resemblance of the Jotastar Eagle 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9wsbdh4oasf95od/%24_57.jpg?dl=0  

to these Gauda Prime ships from the Blake's 7 show.

The resemblance is striking.

Here's a loose Jotastar Eagle pictured on an old Ebay auction.

What do you think readers? Coincidence?

As an aside I stumbled across this picture on the IFO Picture Library of the USAF Avrocar from 1959. Is this the source for these flying saucer toys?

blakes 7 cosmic strikeforce by jotastar; blog legend update

Whilst searching for old space toys on my own blog archive I came across this Blake's 7 Hawk. The picture was supplied by Cory Le Chat some years ago.

I've blogged about it many times before like here:

http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/blakes-7-blue-box-rarity-federation.html

By Jotastar, its one of four Blakes 7 Cosmic Strikeforce toys, which we know better as the more commonplace Blue Box space vehicles.

Googling them I came across this informative thread which not only pictures all four Jotastar toys [drop box links] but describes them and their possible inclusion in an updated merchandise guide.

http://www.blakes7online.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=1836&pid=93084

The picture of the FALCON confirms once and for all what our own resident Blake's 7 enthusiast Kevin D suggested years ago, that I did indeed own the main body of the toy but never knew it! 

Alas, my Falcon body has long since left me! 

Whilst I weep into my cold Yorkshire tea here's a shot of my early collection circa 1990 including the car boot silver-grey Falcon red-tipped rocket body, top picture front left.

Do you have any Blake's 7 toy vehicles?