Ed's Red Dome

Woodsy and Fellow Moonbasers,

A couple of weeks back Woodsy featured this LP #205 set in a post. He mentioned it was on auction and I thought perhaps it was eBay UK.

 Wellll, I did a quick search on American fleaBay for LP sets in general and it showed up! It had a reasonable 'buy it now' price but the postage was a tad pricey coming from Argentina, but I've been down that road before and knew that if I didn't buy it the opportunity would be lost...

...it showed up at my door last week after only

 about eight days in transit - quite fast for an international shipment. 

The little dome is the same as what I have in the Montgomery Wards Miniature Apollo Exploration set, only in red.

From Vegas Base

Ed

Have you got one?

LP BAGGIES

I do like seeing little bags of LP space toys.

Here's one I clocked on Worthpoint's old sales.

Typical of these adaptable toys, many craft shops bagged them up as their own and slapped a header on top.

Here's Heinrich's Decorating Nook's offer in old Detroit, USA, costing $1.19 cents.

You can see the LP brand on the bottom of the silver spaceman.

Heinrich's opened 28 years ago - so that's 1992 - and LP baggies were still available that late. Its still open and Heinrichs are still using the same header, which you can check out yourself in their gallery

http://www.heinrichscakedecorating.com/index.html

Do you ever check out cake decorating shops?

There's another interesting LP baggy - Space Men - discussed on Alphadrome. The thread's from last year. 

Have a butchers yourself. It was a much cheaper bag so I assume its much older. What do you think.

http://alphadrome.net/forums/topic/22651-space-men-set-bagged-with-header-card-10-cents-hong-kong-1960s/

ALIEN CREATURES VENDING TOYS: APOLLO MOON EXPLORING

I love an unusual crop of Apollo Moon Exploring toys.

Here's a great one, a vending card of lovely space and monster toys.

Flanking both top edges are a pair of minty wheeled LP saucer cars from the Apollo Moon range.

How cool is that!

I saw this on Etsy.

What else can you identify readers? the monsters?

Was Space Wars the original name for Star Wars?

three legs make a stand

I saw this little cutie on EBay this year.

An LP three legged saucer.

I never knew that the legs were a separate stand until I saw this.

The saucer appears to be the standard issue with the wheels removed. 

The undercarriage is simply the two protruding axle braces.

We're all three legged saucers in two loose parts orwere some fixed?

stack of lp's

I do enjoy looking for LP astronauts on the web. They have really taken to the medium and small populations continue to break out all over.

Here's a few more recent spottings all on auctions past around the globe.

A posse of greys.

A gang of aliens and the less common three legged flying saucer.

A pair of Goldens.

My personal favourite today, a medley of cake toppers including LP white spacemen, rocket and aliens together with the small candle-holder train I used to stock boxed on my own toy fair stall.

Last but not least, a couple of White Silvers on a small cake topper. 

I think they're getting married.

You got any LP astronauts readers?

A LITTLE IMPERIAL ACTION

Those little LP/ Imperial Apollo Moon Exploring domes get everywhere! here's one I spotted amidst a stack of stuff on the Bay in Winter 2015.

THREE LEGS GOOD

The three legged LP dome seems to be relatively scarce. I had a good look in my photo archive for any more pictures of the little leggy fellow. The earliest mention of three legs on the blog way way back was to do with the top picture from Bill's window sill. Top right there is an unusual three legged space station, the history of which Bill will have to remind us of.

I did manage to find some more three legged domes too so hold on your milk stools and here goes:

Mikephil carded set 1 [Astronit collection]

Mikephil carded set 2 [Ebay]

Mikephile carded set 3 [R. Godwin collection]

Close-up of above three legged dome ship

SpaceX/ LP mixture [Ebay]

SpaceX/ LP mixture [Ebay] - purple moonscape: Kozmic Kiddles?

LP bundle [Ebay]

Does anyone actually own a three legged LP dome ship? Pictures and information welcomed!