BLOG EFFECT: The Ferryman Space Explorer

We've had a few Moonbase name-dropped toy titles on Ebay over the years. Things sort of like Wotan Moon Bus or the Moonbase Central Prospector.

Here's another one, a lovely X-series rocket toy named after erstwhile reader and contributor Ferryman!

I've always taken these titles as a thumbs-up for the blog. What do you think readers?

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"Parts Or Restoration Vintage Ferryman 103 Friction Space Explorer Rocket Toy | eBay:

https://search.app/AwWejycAQbkM8Zem9 "

Thunderbird 7: The Blog Effect?

Bill talks about the blog effect now and then so when I saw this I wondered if this would be a case in point as the effect usually involves misquoting MC content.

Thunderbirds Wiki have a description of a Fantasy Thunderbird 7 at the bottom of their their JR21 toys section https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/JR_21_Toys_(J.Rosenthal)

The idea of a fantasy Thunderbird 7 is OK as it stands, as one was released as a model kit. But it was released by Imai and not JR21. The photograph shown is a one-off custom created by erstwhile blog contributor Ferryman for his own entertainment, which we featured here in 2009!

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2009/06/jr21-thunderbird-7-toy-and-custom-box.html

JR21 themselves never released a Thunderbird 7.

So is Thunderbirds Wiki's gaff the blog effect?

The Imai Thunderbird 7 is actually the Project SWORD Beetle, which I described many times on MC including here in 2014 https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2014/04/new-origins-of-project-sword-toys.html

ARGENTINIAN MOON BUS BY GALGO. OR?

We've seen many examples of the blog effect over the years; direct lifting of titles and descriptions by ebay sellers.

Some of these have been for completely misidentified toys such as the Wotan Project SWORD Badge!

Above is another classic blunder: the Project SWORD Moon Bus Battery Op by Galgo Argentina.

We've featured the Galgo toy on the blog several times but, despite it being yellow, its not a Project SWORD Moon Bus!

This is it:

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2017/03/argentinas-galgo-explorer-12-x-12.html