Mystery Ship: Solved!

 Here's a mystery toy ship.

It looks well designed but I've no idea what it is.

You? 

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An anonymous reader solved this one. It's the Kidco Super Star Cruiser.

Quelle International also released this toy in Europe, called simply Raumschiff or Spaceship.

There's also a Japanese Yonezawa version, which may well be the original and have it's roots in Anime? I don't know.

Here is a lovely webpage all about the Yonezawa version.

http://noboland.web.fc2.com/x-9.htm

DAS SUPERFAST

 Here‘s my German catch of Flohmarkte Superfast with the odd Super King and a few recent cars from Blighty for good measure. For the last month I‘ve patched up a handful of these motors whilst sat on my Father in Law´s sunny balcony listening to him tell me stories of his evacuated childhood.

My faves are the big yellow camper and the shiny red jag in the middle.

What‘re yours?

MOONBASE JUNIOR'S NEW GARAGE

Thought I'd share a pic of Moonbase Grandson's 'new' toy garage.

Its an old second hand tower of a thing and he adores it!

I think its about 15 years old and maybe made by Chicco or Little Tikes.

Amazingly it was free of charge off Facebook. It just needed cleaning!



Moonbase Jr. likes to park up his die-casts and then send each one down the various ramps.

This was a rather blurred shot I took under the top ramp but here goes anyway. The silver car is a 1980 Firebird by Kidco.

What do you think of the garage?

KIDCO CARS LOOK GREAT

At the York Car Boot the other day I found another plastic car by Kidco. 

I didn't buy it but I always like Kidco cars for the very fact that unlike all other small cars in the die-cast rummage boxes they are plastic rather than metal.

I've found loads of them over the years and when luck was going my way I also found the plastic L-shaped keys with the circular fob as well.

The plastic look and feel of Kidco cars always makes me think of prototypes and I find them very appealing.

I think the one I handled on Saturday was a yellow stock car.

Did you or do you have any Kidco cars? Pictures welcomed!

Here's one I found in years gone by.