SCREEN IF YOU WANT TO GO FASTER

 I've a few things on the boil at the mo.

Just finished this simple addition to my incomplete TB2 pod JR21 Land Rover, a neat plastic windscreen donated by Wotan Bill during lockdown.

Not an original part but it'll do nicely. At some point I'll paint it red.

Next up is a 1980's Transformers Galvatron spruce-up.

MY NEW RED TRAILER

 A few shots of my new car boot red trailer. It's a neat fit for the JR21 Land Rover. I couldn't easily find my JR21 Thunderbird 2 so my Dinky stood in.

Not sure what's in the container? Any ideas?

Your garden toy photo's welcomed!

GREEN AND RED: THE JR21 LAND ROVER

 Looking into the legs of the JR21 Thunderbird 2 I couldn't help noticing the Land Rovers too [referred to as a Jeep as well].

The Land Rover was issued with the JR21 version of TB2 and not the initial British HPM TB2, which had a mole.

Its 2.75 inches long.

The colours I can find online are:

Green

[not sure if this is a real JR21 Land Rover?]

and Red

Back in 2012 over very own Scoop pictured both his green and red Land Rovers, together with the HPM mole.

Over at the Big Red Toy Box you can get three different coloured repro windscreens ...

and as is made clear there, the grey windscreen is for another TB2 Land rover, the Spanish version by MOLTO.

The Molto Land Rover is also 2.75 inches long like the JR21 original.

I also spotted this 'white' MOLTO Land Rover, but I think it may just be a trick of the light and its actually a grey one.

Are there any other Thunderbird 2 Land Rovers out there?

JR21 THUNDERBIRD 2: ITS STORY HAS LEGS!

I've been researching the legs of JR21 Thunderbird 2's of late, you know, the retractable part metal/ part plastic rods with those cute button feet.

As far as I can tell there are two colours, red and white. 

Having read up on the subject in various places, it would appear that the red ones were released with the HPM version of the toy - thats Herts Plastic Moulders i.e the initial and UK version [the one later partly filled with sweets 'cos they couldn't source the friction drives!]

HPM then lost the contract to a Hong Kong factory and the resultant JR21 logo'd [2 versions of logo positioning] Thunderbird 2 had white legs.

Is this your understanding readers?

Which one have you got?

RADIO DAYS

 

This is yet another toy similar to my beloved Desert Jeep, this being the Radio Jeep!

I like how the passenger is holding a phone. Make that call!

Here's my original Desert Patrol Jeep. Do you have one?

DESERT PATROL JEEP VARIATION: THE TOM AND JERRY COMIC CAR

My beloved tin Desert Patrol Jeep certainly got around. 

Not just my primary school classroom on Christmas Toy Day but also the design was everywhere in the Sixties.

Here's yet another variation to add to the many we've seen on MC over the years, the splendiferous Tom and Jerry!

What do you think?

SCREEN AND SCREEN AGAIN

 

Just in case you haven't seen them, here are Toy Replica's repro windscreens for the JR21 Landrover.

I haven't had one myself but just in case you need one readers, maybe worth a look at ToyReplicas.com 

JEEP MISSILE INTERCEPTOR

I dunno. I liked the look of this old plastic cheapo jeep and its simple card art so I saved the pic for MC.

Its a Park's Missile Interceptor and somehow captures the UFO vibe for me.

Park's hail from Linden, NJ. Do you know it?

There's a hint of the SpaceX Apollo Tracker too and maybe Major Matt Mason's Satellite Launcher.

Have you anything like this readers or did you have as a kid?

MOVE OVER JEEP, I'M A LAND ROVER

As most toy collectors know replacing missing parts is tricky.

Sometimes that missing bit just isn't common.

Case in point is the Land Rover that came with the JR21 Thunderbird 2.

Here are Scoop's beautiful examples from 2014 on Moonbase.

I've a red one [without the windscreen] but it was pure luck I found it in the attic.

So is there a decent replacement?

Browsing the net I found a few possibles depending on how exact it should be:

Fairylite yellow

Hong Kong red with trailer

Army cheapo jeep

Airfix red jeep

You any ideas?

Jeep! Jeep!

Here's a gold Rough Rider 4 x 4 Jeep Golden Eagle by LJN - top pic. The motor doesn't work but it still lights up. 

I also found this yellow R/C Jeep with inflatable tires. Its steering doesn't work but it still drives forward and reverse. I have just realised it could serve as a "cuckoo" for 3 or 4 inch action figures. I wonder why I didn't think of this when I was a kid!

Enjoy,

Brian F

NJ

USA

jr21 thunderbird 2 jeep

A reader kindly supplied these pics of his little plastic jeep from his JR21 TB2. 

I was keen to see whether the JR21 diamond mark appeared on the base but as you can see there's no mark at all. 

How about the Mole? Are there colour variations on this jeep and the mole? Any other J21 pod vehicles?