Silver Space Cruiser Explorer II

This caught my eye this year so I saved the images.

Its a multi-wheeled space cruiser, the kind of things we've seen before on Moonbase.

Do you like this kind of space tank toy?

Jointly Joyfully: BATTLE FALCON SPACE PHOENIX COSMOS CONDOR

This jointly joyful set from Taiwan seems to emulate Multimac to my eyes. What do you think?

SILVERLIT DRONE: I WANT ONE!

This is a new one on me! I want it!

A chunky modern but futuristic truck with a flying drone on its back!

Matt Mason would have loved it! Geoff Tracy too!

What do you think readers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aaqHl8cbK8

LANCE'S MULTIMACROSSINGS: MACROSS AND MULTIMAC

Woodsy, your plastic space tank ATV is a mosh of sources 

[Woodsy adds: its the silver and maroon vehicle at the very front of this car boot haul]

and up close ....

The front half is a copy of the cockpit portion of the Macross SD Valkyrie toy. 

The cockpit bubble is missing, probably to make a seat area (based on empty slot behind the large opening in your picture which probably was an attachment point for a windshield bubble that opened and closed) and not try to duplicate the rotating cockpit of the original. 

Here is the Maximilian Jenius version in flight mode 

http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/jokemax2.1.jpg 

but the cockpit is rotated to the shield side for when it is actually in battroid mode. 

The Max and Fokker versions in battroid form are also similar with the cockpits in flight mode revealing the interior.

I've got my SD (super deformed) VF-1S off in storage so here's a bunch of pics off the web, hope these work.

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images2/1/0418/30/robotech-bandai-1984-sd-macross_1_da15ea315395f8362ea97421b6b7ab64.jpg

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/wpimages/images/images1/1/0418/30/1_da15ea315395f8362ea97421b6b7ab64.jpg

https://d9nvuahg4xykp.cloudfront.net/-2062868313646340412/5535851908609841495.jpg missing arm

https://d9nvuahg4xykp.cloudfront.net/-2062868313646340412/5148617121973712825.jpg backside of the above Valkyrie

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images2/1/1217/25/bandai-macross-vf-1s-hikaru-valkyrie_1_018888ff154f9d6cd1a0dbd77b21bd54.jpg This is how the original Japanese version was packaged

I'm not sure if Matchbox ever released the SD toys. They were responsible for a lot of original toys for the Robotech series although the ones they used the original molds for (SDF-1, Monster) they cut corners on.

The SDF-1 lacks all the launcher mechanisms and the Monster is all in 1 color. 

Lance
USA

EXHAUSTIVE MULTIMAC RESEARCH ENQUIRY

Bill told me something interesting about this remote control multimac clone. The exhausts are the same as the Airfix Starcruiser Interceptor but I can't find a photo to hand for comparison.

Maybe Bill will take up the story.

Just looking at those exhausts they also remind me of the Dinky Space 1999 Eagle Transporter. Maybe not. And whilst we're at it, is the Dinky Battle Cruiser the same ship as the Airfix Starcruiser?

ARE MULTIMAC TOYS THE SPACEX HEIR?

 

I keep coming across Multimac online of late. It's brightly coloured cosmic construction vehicles are instantly recognisable. I remember seeing them carded up like this one on racks at Toys R Us in the early 1990's. Wish I'd have got some then. The astronauts look like Manta Force - are they related?

 

 

So what's the gen on Multimac? Silverlit, Galaxy series? What does it all mean? Anyone a Multimaccer?

 

 

Was Multimac the natural successor to the SpaceX/ Golden Astronaut range?

MORE MEGA FORCE?

Cheers guys, Mega Force eh? A new one on me. I might as well show you this motley crew that I got offa t'Ebay last year. Still waiting in the twilight zone of my attic where unidentified stuff languishes for eons. The brown 'big gun' is made by SL as is the greenish digger. The little bug in the middle is made by KPT 89. The camouflaged tank carrier and jet trailer are Kenner 89. The green jets with the strange rear pins have no markings at all. No idea what the tiny brown jet at the front is nor the purple tank!