More Unidentified Toys!

Unidentified! Help!

 Another batch from my big Christmas rummage pile, these are all unidentified.

Any ideas readers? 

Mystery Man

Slim Pickens today, our last trip to Thorpe Arch boot sale this year.

 A forty minute drive is too much for a dwindling outdoor sale reduced solely to traders with only the odd family braving the cold with a stall. We'll start going again next year. 

My only purchase was the 50p mystery man dated 2016. Any ideas folks? 

Are you still car booting or flea marketing?

PS.

Identified by Bill, here's what a bubble carded Mechanic looked like. Mines missing the tools.

Anyone else got this figure?

Flying Star Moon Craft

 I don't think I've seen this radio controlled  Flying Star F5 Moon Craft before. 

It looks fantastic!

There's elements of the USS Enterprise and Thunderbird 5 in there.

I love the blue and orange colours.

Is this a toy you know?

The Space Janter

This Space Janter looks so

 familiar.

Is it Star Wars? Batman?

I like it anyway.

You?

Who is Marchon Rocket?

I'm pretty clued up, I think, on Super Heroes.

So this costumed fellow on Worthpoint has me baffled.

Supposedly linked to Marvel Secret Wars, it's listed as a Marchon Rocket Bootleg/Knockoff!

Who?

The Unusual Suspects

 Here's my cache of small plastic figures from the 10p bin.

No idea what any of them are yet. You? 

Horror Mask Mystery Solved

 Just over a year ago I posted a mystery miniature horror mask.

Made of flimsy plastic, it had a strange holder at the back.

There was much speculation as to what it could be in the comments at the time.

 https://share.google/OK9ESjQs4UBDYEE6I

As is often the case with these things the solution to the mystery has revealed itself when I was looking for something completely different this week!

Turns out it's a Creepy Funs like this! 

It's a sort of wall walker, the rear holder containing a sticky roll, like a small toilet roll! 

I couldn't find my exact one but here's a selection of Creepy Funs, which looks like they're from the 80's or 90's to me.

Do you like them?

Rob C's Mystery Spaceship Design

Woodsy,

I sent you these pix some time ago, but I'm sending them again to see if Moonbasers can solve a mystery for me.

This is the Apollo 27, a retro Sci-Fi rocket model produced in 2009 by Pegasus Hobbies.

I swear I saw a post on Moonbase several years ago which featured an identical design, either from a comic strip or a toy from the 1950s or 1960s.

 I vaguely thought it was connected to the Dan Dare franchise, but that didn't pan out.

Does anybody recognize this design from an older toy or comic strip?

 I know it's a fairly generic design, but I swear I saw this particular design somewhere else before the 2009 model came out.

Rob C

USA

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Terranova47 has sent these in as likely candidates; a Jet Ace Logan comic strip illustration on a Fleet way book and his own RAF rendition of it.

The Man from Uncle See Through Walls Pen by Hidden Devices

 Years ago I got hold of a Propmasters catalogue offering for sale the personal Man from Uncle memorabilia collection of David Oliver, Propmasters founder.

Listed was a rare UK version of the Marx Man from Uncle Counterspy Set from 1966.

Unlike the US version, this one was listed with a Big Pen included.

I've never known what that Big Pen was. 

This week I found out about a Marx See Through Walls pen offered as a US mail in in the Sixties. It's chunky, maybe that means big?

See what you think. Could this be the mysterious Counterspy Set big pen? 

Samurai Central

 I recently picked up these 12" action figures dressed as a Chinese male archer and a female Ninja. 

Finely detailed and high quality, I've no idea of the make. No makers mark visible anywhere.

Still, here's some shots of them guarding (or attacking) MoonBase Palace.

Enjoy.

And a short clip of the above.

Mystery Model Man

 This is a mystery to me.

I saw it on an old auction.

An Action Man type figure with two uniforms, a soldier and a knight.

I thought maybe Little Big Man or Madel Man.

But the rear says Model Toys Ltd, Hong Kong.

Anyone know who this figure is?

Mystery Model Spitfire

Hi Woodsy

The recent post from Lewis about his visit to the Hurstville Collectables Fair included a photograph of a mystery Spitfire toy. 

It is a pretty terrible model of a Spitfire – probably the Mark Vb, which had two long barrelled 20mm cannon in the wings, along with four .303 inch machine-guns which did not project from the wing.

The deep chin is probably meant to represent the Vokes tropical filter, intended to keep dust out of the engine. The Middle Stone and Dark Earth colour scheme was used mainly in North Africa.

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2025/08/looey-at-hurstville-fair.html#comment-form

Lewis has mentioned Google Lens a few times, but I thought this was something you had to sign up for. It turns out I already had it on my computer, but have only just discovered it.

Using Google Lens I was able to find several matches for the model. It is marked under the starboard wing UNIVERSAL PRODUCT © 1977, and under the port wing SPITFIRE, with MADE IN HONG KONG under the starboard tailplane.

Although a basic toy, the undercarriage does retract. The colour scheme is original, and has not been re-painted.

Thanks to Lewis for explaining what Google Lens is, in previous posts. I think it is going to be very useful, now that I know I have it.

Four photographs from Worthpoint.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Zap Palitoy

My good friend Paul V got me this unusual old toy car for my birthday. 

Narrow, long and heavy, it has Spider-Man on top and Palitoy below.

Anyone know what it is?

Mystery Action Man

 On a recent mooch around Matlock's vintage shops I saw this unusual Action Man clone.

With Action Man GI Joe facial features, the rear of the figure said M&C.

Is this one you know readers? 

Crimson Crusader: Red Batmobile

 

Here's a toy Batmobile I saw on auction a while back

It reminds me a little of the big black Mego version from the Seventies. 

This red one isn't one I know. You?