On YT, its a 2 minute plus clip of Mexican Billy Blastoff toys gathered on a lunar surface by fan Ricardo Campos.
Billy Blastoff was called Capitan Boy in Mexico and released by prolific toy firm Lili Ledy.
The film-maker Ricardo is clearly passionate about his Billy as he's schlepped them all way onto the Parangueo volcanic lake-crater in Central Mexico to get his moonscape.
When I first saw this clip I was extra excited as I thought it might be linked to one I found a few years ago on You Tube, which I blogged at the time.
It was a TV ad of the less-well known little brother of Capitan Boy called Mini Capitan Boy, who even comes with Tri-ang SpaceX-styled toys!
The Parangueo clip up top isn't connected to the Lili Ledy TV ad but I appreciate the crater moonscape nonetheless. Have you got any Lili Ledy toys or Billy Blastoff or indeed Capitan/ Mini Capitan Boy?
Mini Capitan Boy was a Mexican hybrid of SpaceX toys and miniature Billy Blastoff toys.
I first stumbled across it last year on You Tube in a video about toy firm Lili Ledy.
Beyond this new information has been scant about this unusual brand of toys.
However it is possible from the film to see some of these Mexican toys quite clearly. One of these is the miniature Scout Car pictured here from an online auction. But just how small is it?
The mini Billy Blastoff figure is 1.5 inches tall according to a Worthpoint auction listing.
Guessing how small the scout car toy is can be estimated from this.
It would appear to be 2 to 3 inches long to me.
Also this group shot below has several mini Billy Blastoff figures.
For a sense of just how scaled down the range was compare the normal sized Billy Blastoff Scout car centre left and the Mini Capitan Boy version front centre above the letter T in the word ROBOTIN.
You can also compare large and small versions of the rest of Billy's range too including the Walker and the buggy with pincers at the front.
Another possible yardstick of size is this similar little red Scout Car knockoff which appeared in several LP and Apollo Moon Exploration style sets like this pictured.
This could very well be the same scale as the Mini Capitan Boy toy.
Fortunately its dimensions and features have been beautifully catalogued on blog friend Paul V's Triang Spacex Toys website.
Looking at the dimensions on Paul's site the orange scout car may be smaller than the Mini Capitan Boy version. Its hard to say without having them side by side.
Its interesting to note that Paul's site also features one of the Mini Capitan Boy Spacex-based toys, the T-5 Tractor lookalike with the double launcher
This is clearly visible in the Lili Ledy film on You Tube. Here's a still. The double missile launcher yellow tractor is just behind the front P3 helicopter.
Comparing the sizes on Paul's brilliant site, its also interesting to note that the dimensions of this toy were slightly bigger than the Tri-ang SpaceX T-5 and Golden Astronaut Terrain Tiger originals.
Were all the Spacex-inspired toys in the Mini Capitan Boy range slightly bigger than the Tri-ang/ Multiple Toymakers versions?
We will just have to wait for a Lili Ledy Mini Capitan Boy range to surface before we'll know exactly what the rest of Spacex-inspired vehicles look like, how big they were and if and how the little spaceman could sit on them!
In this hobby some doors close and some doors open.
Here's a cool discovery I made this week whilst browsing You Tube.
Its called Mini-Capitan Boy by Lily Ledy and is basically...
Mexican SPACEX toys!
Check out this cool clip from 0.35 seconds onwards till 1.02 minutes.
I love this mute film and its animated spacex toys! Its amazing!
Capitan Boy was the Mexican version of Billy Blastoff.
Mini Capitan Boy was a tiny variant and it would appear that it was mixed with SpaceX toys!
Some vehicles are actually different like the double-cannon Tractor in the middle of this screengrab.
We've actually seen this before on the blog but could never put a make to it. For detailed pictures see Paul Vreede's comprehensive page on this T5 clone.
Equally fascinating is how Lili Ledy appear to have placed a Mini Capitan Boy figure on top of the vehicles, which you can see here on the Moon Prospector. He seems to ride them!
For me the icing on the cake are the range of carded sets, which appear towards the end of the segment. They look like Golden Astronaut carded sets from this angle! You can see that each one appears to contain a mini Capitan Boy instead of a toy astronaut!
The larger set is made up of miniaturised versions of the standard Billy Blastoff range rather than Spacex.
You can see from this shot by El Viejo just how small mini Capitan Boy is as compared to the normal sized Capitan Boy aka Billy Blastoff. He's tiny!
What do you think?
So, has anyone got any Mini Capitan Boy De Luxe toys aka Mexican SpaceX?
