There are two, yes two Japanese Tomy Apollo-X rockets in this footage of Tochgi toy village factory - is that a Tomy sign at the entrance?
The Apollo X was the forerunner of the Century 21 Toys Project SWORD Apollo Saturn.
I picked this little Japanese digger up earlier in the year.
A post-Easter trip to Selby, North Yorkshire, was mucho fun yesterday.
In a second-hand shop some old Galactic friends from the Seventies peered out from beneath the counter's Carbonite glass.
With welcome counsel from Jedi Master Wotan I released two of the figures, Hammerhead and a Power Droid [this was in the window].
Which figures would you have got readers?
There's at least one non-Star Wars character in there. Can you spot it?
In a charity shop this buff fellow said Who Am I?
I said I don't Know!
Do you?
This oddball appears to be a Tomy space toy that will be actually ...... sent to the Moon!
Its called the Sora-Q Flagship.
With a rather clunky wobbly motion, it seems to be able to wiggle across a dusty surface like the Moon's.
Here's a promo from its home country Japan.
What do you think readers?
These toys are so odd, Space Shuttlers, the First Mechanical Toys in Space by Tomy 1985. Above is Rat Stuff, the pop over mouse.
Strangely, it says Rat Stuff is an exact replica of their first one. Surely that would make Rat Stuff second?
There are three in this range and I have no idea what they do!
You?
An old chestnut now on MC, here's yet another vintage Climbing Choo-Choo.
