You know the Drill

 I like these little Japanese candy moguras.

They have a basic SpaceX LT-10 vibe too.

They connect too!

You like? 

Alan's Car

 As far as I know this is Alan Tracy's sports car. 

It's a Japanese miniature by Glico the candy kings.

I first came across this little premium in black and white in Dennis Nicholson's Anderson Merchandise guide book in the mid 1990's, the Bible.

In reality, as shown in these Buyee auction shots, it's a beautiful bright orange.

Do you like it?

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Seeing Kevs and Yorkie's comments I thought I'd add the vehicles mentioned for completeness' sake.

Imai TB2 Container 4 with the yellow racing car. Box art by the master Shiguru K. Anyone got a pic of the built up car?

Alan's BR2 Lightning 505 in Thunderbirds

TV21 Summer Special 1966

Above two images: Thunderbirds Wiki

Radar Love

Another Japanese Glico mini Thunderbirds premium.

The wonderful Radar Car.

Glico. Like Kinder Toys, just cooler! 

What do you think?

Japanese Miniature Project SWORD and the Zero-X

 Blog friend Terry H has kindly sent me these snaps he got from a Buyee auction. 

This is the Japanese miniature Zero-X premium by Glico candy. A beautiful little OX, much less detailed than the Morinaga miniature some of you may have, but I like it a lot.

Do you like it? 

Terry also spotted these.

A red Probe Force 1 and yellow Probe Force 3. The grey plane isn't Project SWORD.

Ive a few of these Japanese miniatures too. Gorgeous solid plastic and tiny.

I don't know the maker. Glico premiums tend to be snap-together. These are single solid pieces.

Anyone know?

Nagasakiya SF Mecha MOLAB

Here's something we've seen before on MC but only in part. Now we can see the full candy showa molab vehicle from Japan. Thanks to Terry H for pointing it out.

What do you think?

SCOUT MEETING

 Doing a Japanese GLIGO online search it was great to meet up with a miniature Scout 2 again, here in green.

Scout 2 is one of the three scout ships from the Century 21 Toys Project SWORD toy range, which I adored as a kid.

Being ,asters of reduction, the Japanese have miniaturised many of the SWORD toys and issued them as small gifts in candy.

I used to collect these but buying from outside Japan has become difficult.

Have you anything like this?

GLICO-RAMA

 I love small Japanese GLICO style SF toys. 

Try pasting this into Google search and see what you think!

昭和レトロ ナガサキヤ？宇宙船 SFメカ 飛行機おもちゃ当時物2b

MINIATURE MARVELS

Miniaturisation is a difficult thing but I think the Japanese have it nailed.

These old Glico toys are perfectly formed works of art.

What do you think?

JAPANESE JEWELS: GLICO TOYS

 Japan's sweet Glico toys are in a class of their own!

Here's another online sample. Enjoy!

MADE IN JAPAN

Japanese Glico toys always amaze me. Just look at this lot I saw on a Japanese auction. See anything you like?

STOPPIN BY ON NOPPIN

 After a long pause I've been browsing Noppin again, the Japanese marketplace.

I used to buy loads of small Project SWORD miniatures from Noppin years ago but I'm unsure if Westerners can buy anymore. Certainly Yahoo Japan stopped trading with many countries.

Anyway, I've saved some snaps from my latest gander of mostly Glico vehicles and rockets, Glico being a candy company, the premiums from which are massively collected in Japan so there are thousands of them on Noppin. Searching can be difficult so I use terms like Glico Showa, Glico Universe, Glico toy, Glico Thunderbirds and so on. Have a go!

Speaking of which, here's Glico's Thunderbirds Radar Car, which I first saw in 1996 in Dennis Nicholson's majestic Andersonalia Book.

and the UFO SHADO2

I wondered if this might be a UFO car too?

I liked this one as well.

We've seen this before being mislabelled as UFO elsewhere online but its still nice.

Wombat'ish?

and occasionally other stuff pops up in a Glico bundle ... can you see a radar?

Here it is. SpaceX Mobile HQ?

The following ships are all a mystery to me, part of the vast Japanese universe of Manga and Anime I imagine.

Any ideas readers?