Wholly new to the blog is Arto's new find, the Japanese Probe Force 1 by Maruman. image: simplyrobots We've seen something very simi...

My friend and uber-Project SWORD collector Arto has recently bagged from Canada something entirely new to him, me and blog, the Probe Force ...

I bought a Project SWORD Probe Force One from Italy this Spring and my European chum kindly took it in this week. I've yet to check it o...

  I love these old Kaiju blasters you get in Japan. This laccy band powered rocket machine-gun fires red-tipped rocket darts that look very ...

.... The Nike would come up from the underground storage (left side of pic with car), then move down the rail to the end (near where c...

I've for some time considered the USAF Nike Hercules to have been the inspiration for the Project SWORD Probe Force 1 in 1967. To ...

For some time I have theorised that the origins of the Project SWORD Probe Force 1 lie in the design of the Nike Hercules USAF missile. ...

I saw this old cinema poster for the Three Stooges' flick Have Rocket Will Travel from 1959 and I thought yes, Probe Force 1! H...

The more I see of the Nike Hercules the more I'm smitten with the idea that it was the source design for the Project SWORD Probe Fo...

As soon as I saw this MiG 21 model online I thought - I recognise those two horizontal tail fins! They totally remind me of...

Vintage footage from the 1950's of a USAF Nike Hercules missile launch on You Tube. Is this missile the inspiration for the Project...

Eighteen months ago I blogged my ideas about the origins of Project SWORD toys in a post entitled The New Origins of Project SWORD Toys . ...