The Mystery of the Secret Gaskett

Arto's Latin place-holder story reminded me of another mystery from way back when Moonbase first kicked off in 2008/09.

Here it is, as solved in 2011. Enjoy! 

Back in October 2009 reader Ferryman flagged up a gasket mystery relating to a strange card template inside the New Flying Saucer at the bottom of the above picture. The gasket was sort of cat faced and pictured a speedboat in blue, black and white. The identity of this has remained a mystery.....

Until now! 

I was recently lucky enough to acquire a new T boat, the Dolphin Cruiser and lo and behold, the box art includes, you've guessed it, the blue, black and white speedboat picture on two sides! 

Mystery solved!

Below you can see the two pictures close up.

Did these card gaskets appear inside all three types of New Flying Saucer: T, JR21 and the German Welt Erkunder?

LIVE AUCTIONEERS LOTS MORE SPACE

 

Another lot I saw on Live Auctioneers caugfht my eye,

The Space Aircraft far left is a new one on me. You?

The Space Ship X5 with the green base reminds me of the JR21 New Flying Saucer. Has anyone got one of these Space Ship X5's?

SILVER FOR MISH!

 

The Greek Polyplast New Flying Saucer.
Silver, pink and yellow!

What do you think?

PASS THE SAUCER PLEASE!

I've always like the JR21 New Flying Saucer.

Here's a couple of box variations I've seen online.

There are also versions of this toy by T in a Circle, Polyplast and Brohm.

Have you got one readers?

OK TOYS NEW FLYING SAUCER?

I wonder if this OK Toys DB flying saucer is a variation of the JR21 New Flying Saucer? What do you think? JR21 link in the labels below the post.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-space-ship-db-battery-526427967

CHEE HANG SAUCER

I agree with the author of this description on Alphadrome, the box art of the Chee Hang Space Saucer is indeed reminiscent of the JR21 New Flying Saucer box art. Years ago when I first saw this toy online I had wondered if it was actually JR21. Do you like it?

http://alphadrome.net/data/displayimage.php?album=8&pid=3967#top_display_media

NEW FLYING SAUCER BY POLYPLAST

For the New Flying Saucer collector in you. This is the Greek version of the toy once released by JR21 no less.

Seen on Worthpoint.

Do you have a New Flying Saucer?

SPANISH FLYING SAUCER TOYS: NAVE ESPACIAL

This is a lovely old flying saucer toy I saw on Spain's Todocollecion, the Nave Espacial by Kuxan

I really like the box art.

The overall look reminds me of the New Flying Saucer, which JR21 released.

The base recalls the Project SWORD Moon Prospector and the New flying Saucer too.

Have you got any flying saucers?

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Here's another Spanish Ovni entry.

A very shiny saucer with coloured lights.

By Spanish outfit JYE it came with lovely box art of two boys watching an astronaut over a wall!

POLYPLAST JR21 NEW FLYING SAUCER: THE GREEK BOX

 We've featured the Greek version of the JR21 New Flying Saucer by Polyplast before.

But we've not featured the Greek box before.

Have you got one?

You can see the Greek text on the side.

The front and second side are however in English.

The distinguishing features of the toy are the silver saucer ring and the name Polyplast below right above the battery unit.

This example was on Ebay via superboffer9.

BIRTHDAY TELSALDA CONNECTIONS 2: DOLPHIN CRUISER

Ten years ago I covered the T in a Circle New Flying Saucer and its mysterious card gasket in a post called Gasket Case:

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2011/03/gasket-case-new-flying-saucer-mystery.html

It remains one of my fave toy mystery stories ever on the blog.

Later I was lucky enough to ID the gasket as the box side of the T in a Circle Dolphin Cruiser.

Even later I found that Telsalda also released the same Dolphin Cruiser and box as seen below

and here bottom left

Could it have been a Telsalda card box gasket in the New Flying Saucer after all?

NEW FLYING SAUCER PACKAGING

This is one for those of you who collect or are interested in JR21 toys.

I saw this on an online auction this year, the New Flying Saucer.

The image shows what appears to be the inner card packaging, although it looks home-made to me.

Does anyone have the inner card packaging for this toy?

What does yours look like?

Do you have this toy?

Ok saucer mystery

This spaceship D8-2 by OK Toys I've seen online appears to have a similar undercarriage to the JR21 New Flying Saucer. 

Come to think of it the top looks similar too.

Anyone got both of them to check maybe?

POLYPLAST NEW FLYING SAUCER MADE IN GREECE

This is the Greek version of the JR21 New Flying Saucer toy. Made by Polyplast, the defining feature is the silver colouring but the rest is virtually the same. The two space pilots are the same ones that appear in the Project SWORD Moon Bus. This example appeared on the Bay 6 years ago without a box sadly. Has anyone got a picture of the Greek box?