Arto in Helsinki Base has sent me a few links to three neat vintage toys he's spotted on Ebay this year. First up is this interesting Sp...

The Spacebird No.3 is one of several clones of the Project SWORD Probe Force 3 toy. For years this has been the only and restricted view we ...

  This Louis Glanzman "Tom Corbett" TR-1 illustration from 1953 rings so many toy bells. I saw it on the Zorger Public Domain site...

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...

What a beautiful toy. Have you got one?

Hi, With regard to asking if anyone has any Space Birds, does this count? Cluck, cluck, Kevin D

I was recently sent a link by blog friend Terry H for a Space Bird No.3, the vintage Japanese Probe Force 3 toy. In the description wer...

Japanese SpaceBird Probe Force Three clone. Red window and red engine variation. Courtesy of Terry Harle [part of my 2009 Frees...

Six years ago Bill posted these incredibly exciting and rare pictures of the White SpaceBird No.3, a Japanese variant of the Century...

The white version of the Japanese Space Bird [Probe Force] No. 3 remains one of the rarest SWORD toys. Only one example has surfaced since ...

To celebrate Wotan's birthday here's another first for the blog to keep up the excitement. I regularly check Japanese modellers...