There is an interesting old board  game called Sputnik I saw on a Museum's superb site about German space board games.  I love its plast...

 My best guess as to the steps that were taken before Project SWORD's plastic friction Probe Force 3 appeared in 1967. (* The Green Mons...

The Spacebird No.3 is one of several clones of the Project SWORD Probe Force 3 toy. For years this has been the only and restricted view we ...

Earlier in the year Arto got hold of the Probe Force 3 forerunner, the Hover Rocket XL9. Sadly it had no fins. Wanting to see it complete fo...

I've always liked the brown and yellow Otaki kit Monster racing car after it was discovered as the likely source for the Project SWORD ...

My friend and uber-Project SWORD collector Arto has recently bagged from Canada something entirely new to him, me and blog, the Probe Force ...

Have a look at this old Japanese Otaki 1964 kit catalogue. On page 11 is the Monster Car, the brown one with 45 on it. Project SWORD toy fan...

What a beautiful toy. Have you got one?

Every now and then I look at Alibaba. I clocked these Chinese plastic planes and thought, hmm, they're a bit like my old pal th...

I love this old ad I saw on Yahoo Japan. It shows three of Otaki's model racers. The brown one is the monster based on the ...

Japanese Meiji candy sticker depicting Project SWORD Probe Force 3. Donated by Terry H. Can anyone read the rear of the sticker...

Always on the look out for rocket cars here's an interesting one from Remco. Its the rocket attachment  from their Swap Mobile ...

Ages ago I established the likely link between the Otaki Monster car kit and the Project SWORD Probe Force 3. The origin of them all is t...

This is one rare bird I would like this coming New Year, the cream Spacebird no.3 by YT of Japan, a gorgeous variation of the Project SWOR...

Where it all began, the Arfons Green Monster super jet car. Next up was the Otaki Green Monster model car Then came our pal t...

I noticed the box art on this Japanese space rifle on Ebay [pamclay1] had a Thunderbird 1 lookalike. then I noticed that there'...

Last year I established the likely link between the Otaki Monster car kit and the Project SWORD Probe Force 3. The origin of them all is t...

Woodsy, Have a look at the Japanese photo attached and in particular the little yellow vehicle bottom centre - what does it look lik...

Last year I found the connection between the Otaki monster car [above, purple] and the Probe Force 3. I've wondered since if any...