HAWK EYE

 This is an interesting clip by Monta-Man TV showing the Bullycan Portaaviones or Aircraft Carrier toy.

Keep your eye out for the green SpaceX Hawk clones on the flight deck.

Have you got anything like this?

PLASTIC CARRIERS

 A flotilla of plastic aircraft carriers I've seen online.

How cool are they!

A mixture of Saunders, Giplam and Bullycan carriers.

Anyone know the significance of the large numbers on each one like 32?

BIRTHDAY NEWS: BULLYCAN 'SPACEX' IN 1987!

I was amazed to see this on Spain's Todocollecion.

Its a Bullycan toy catalogue from 1987 and the Aviones Cosmicos aircraft carrier was still available!

The carrier came with SpaceX toy lookalikes.

I wonder if it was on offer even later than 1987?

Its pictured bottom left.

Have you got one?

BULLYCAN SPACEX AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN THE 1980'S

I was checking Todocollecion for the Bullycan aircraft carrier I got a few years back and was really surprised to see it in a Bullycan catalogue ..... dated 1987!

Wow! You could still get something SpaceX-inspired as late as 1987! That's just two years before my collecting bug was kicked off by the Michael Keation batman movie in '89! I could have got a brand new one. I even went to Majorca in the early 90's!

Is there anything SpaceXy/ Apollo Moon Exploringy even later still brand new? LP-inspired baggy's made in China maybe?

Such is the circle of a toy life!

Here are two pics borrowed from the listing.

The aircraft carrier  - yellow - aka Portaviones - is bottom left.

The catalogue is 37 pages so it could well still advertise the three spacecraft on the carrier, which also came separately on a blister card and were branded Aviones Cosmicos or Space Planes.

Anyone got this catalogue?

BULLYCAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER

A short video by someone else of the same toy I got a few years back, the Bullycan Portaviones, a plastic aircraft carrier with SpaceX Hawk-like planes.

Do you like it?

https://playtube.pk/watch?v=LO_MBCY-8c4

BULLYCAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER DEDALO

Checking my old email archive I came across a nugget of insight from blog friend Paul Vreede regrading my Spanish toy aircraft carrier.

Paul V says that looking at the pics there, he noticed a couple of Hawker Harriers hovering in the box top illustration. So he looked those up on wikipedia, curious to know when those first flew.

Where it turns out the Spanish navy also operated Sea Harriers (they called them Matadors) off their carrier called the Dédalo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_aircraft_carrier_D%C3%A9dalo which explains the name just above the barcode in the pics [headers above].

Thanks Paul!

Plastic Fantastic: Italian Ferry, Spanish Carrier

I recently put these two toys together. 

On the left is a large yellow plastic car ferry from Italy and released by Renam of Naples.

On the right is the older white Aircraft Carrier complete with SpaceX-type spaceships released by Bullycan of Spain.

For completeness here are the two makers' details from the toys themselves.

Renam

Bullycan

and a few shots of them on their own

Have you got a toy ferry or an Aircraft Carrier readers?

discovery two: bullycan hawk variant

The second thing new to the blog this month is Spanish.

Its a gorgeous variant of the Hawk by Bullycan.

I have a number of Bullycan SpaceX-styles toys including Hawks as part of their Aviones Cosmicos and Portoaviones ranges.

This one is new to me and the blog.

Although its the standard soft plastic the company used, this Bullycan Hawk is quite sophisticated compared to their other simpler versions.

Besides the new tri-colour scheme, which I love, this one has retractable wings

and unlike these hollow Bullycans ..

.. this one also has a solid base on which the wheels are attached.

It fairs really well against the original Tri-ang SpaceX Hawk too

They are the same size

Its interesting to compare it with the Tri-ang original and one of Bullycan's simpler Hawks as featured on my Bullycan Aircraft carrier

 All three are more or less the same size

The next question is whether this special Hawk came on special packaging or the standard Aviones Cosmicos triple pack Bullycan issued?

Maybe one day we'll find out. In the meantime I'm happy my new Hawk has joined my growing Bullycan fleet.

For more information about Bullycan's Spacex I made a video a while back 

and for even more detailed information consult my friend Paul Vreede's beautiful Bullycan chapter on his definitive SpaceX website. Paul even spoke to them and the moulds may still exist!

http://www.triangspacextoys.info/SpGAderv/BLCN/BlcnCpPg.html

Have you any Bullycan toys like Aviones Cosmicos or Portoaviones or indeed any Hawk or SpaceX copies whatsoever?

bullycan aviones cosmicos triple packs gallery

These are all the Spanish Bullycan Aviones Cosmicos triple packs I have seen so far on various Spanish auctions over the last few years.

The various related Bullycan Aircraft Carriers to follow.

Have you any of these triple packs or loose toys?

8TH BIRTHDAY PRESENT: THE BIG OPENING! .... ITS SPANISH SPACEX!

Last week I posed the question what was in this birthday package?

Well, here goes......

Ta da!

What do you think readers?

Its the Bullycan Portaviones in multiple colours new to the blog!

HAWK CARRIER

Bullycan Aircraft Carrier Variation

Made in Spain

Jets are Hawks as per SpaceX and Golden Astronaut.