Bandai Boxed Space Age Beauties

I've always liked Bandai's Space Age line of toy vehicles. They include several Thunderbirds Pod vehicles like the two shown. The one on the right is a Mighty Jack jet I think but I could be wrong. These were on auction so I saved this pic.

Anyone got any of this range?

KEV'S POD FLEET

I'm currently building the new kit of the Thunderbird 2 launch bay, which is quite a big job. It comes with a huge collection of pod vehicles. 

 I've put them together but have yet to paint and detail them. Just looking at them like this though, I thought that if Kinder eggs had included pod vehicles, this is what you would've got!

As an aside, doesn't this fire vehicle look a lot like the, as yet unseen, SpacexII crash tender?

Back to it,

Kevin D

UK

LIKE PEAS IN A POD

Watching Star Wars A New Hope again with Junior I was struck how similar the R2D2 escape pod was to something else in my mind.

This.

The Aries 1B from 2001.

Turns out they're completely different!

Can you think of any other pod craft like these?

FAB1 AND THUNDERBIRD 2

Seeing the size of FAB1 against Thunderbird 2 on Thunderbirds Wiki it struck me that FAB1 could have easily driven into the TB2 pod.

So did FAB1 ever go into the TB2 pod in the TV series or did TB2 ever lift FAB1 and drop it off? Anyone know?