Wooden UFO Interceptor Prototype?

As alerted by the ever-cool Dinky Toys TV Space Blog here's auction news of a possible prototype Dinky UFO Interceptor! It's wooden! 

See what you think readers.

https://www.vectis.co.uk/f017-lot-1121820

Image: Vectis

Sora Q: is it a Takara toy?

 I can't work out if this is a toy or not or is it some sort of prototype moon rover?

The motion is strange but effective as it waddles through the sand.

https://youtube.com/shorts/tZXystLYNSw?feature=shared

Test Shot Monster Dolls

Intrigued by Wotan Bill's idea of further female monsters in the Lincoln International style of the Girl Victim posted yesterday, I had a mess around this afternoon.

Here are basic ideas for the Mummy, the Bride and the Daughter/ Queen.

Dolls simply to hand were used for convenience so sizes vary. It would be a Mod Miss in the final thing.

All up in the air and yet to settle in the cauldron.

See what you think. Ideas welcomed. 

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backgrounds; a Frozen poster and this great book.

EITHER OR: MY HOME-MADE OR FROM ORION FIGURE

 Totally gobsmacked by John Eaton's original prototype Mattel Or from Orion toy I saw this week I thought I'd have a crack at making the little alien.

Here's John's original and unique Or figure 

on his fabulous Major Matt Mason blog.

Here's my Saturday afternoon, my very own 'Or'. Small and neat, putting it together from scraps - a bead head, micro toothbrush arms and the rest bits of plastic -  was a load of far out fun!

I call my figure Either. 

Either Or.

See what you think.

A WORM IN MY OR

I was completely amazed by the real and unique Or and Orbitor toy owned by John Eaton and published on his Major Matt Mason blog [thanks Paul V.] 

Regarding John's Or itself, its such a cute and fragile-looking plastic alien creature in two attractive colours. Its a really appealing figure, almost Bruderesque and would 'sit' well among the Colourforms Outrer Space Men too, as well as its stablemates Callisto, Captain Lazer and Scorpio.

Seeing Or made me think of other similar insectoid robots. I couldn't find any contemporaries of Or from the 1960's but there are a few from later decades that have those creepy crawly robot chops.

There's the modern dancing robot.

Kenner's Star Wars droid with Or-like legs.

One of many Japanese candy premiums. I don't know how old these are.

The spinner itself, the Orbitor, recalls in looks my favourite Matt Mason gadget as a kid, the Satellite Launch Pak shown below. 

The concept of domed satellite spinners has been around a while. Below is the PLANET PATROL SAUCER ray gun set with domed rotors that fly from the end of the gun and is from the 1950's. Is that an alien inside?

And finally here is the LUNAR ORBITOR by NP of Germany. Although it has no dome, the centre is topped with a neat silver radar. I don't know the date of this. There are many more examples of satellite toys with domes and thingies stuck on top. 

There are more space spinners.

These uber-cool Stanzel sets even contain a tiny domed figure.

Closer inspection on Ebay shows its an astronaut and not an alien.

But their spinner went plastic too and became a Ziroid!

To cap this post off here's a neat seated robot piloting the M-50 Space Ship.

Have you any spinning discs with aliens or robots in a dome readers?

THE WHITE WITCH FINISHED

 With the prototype firmly in my sites, some new white paint and a cauldron of bits later, my Star Wars White Witch is done!

It was a lot of glued-fingers fun!

Double, double, droid and bubble!

See what you think.

I received this email the other day concerning a prototype Angel Interceptor from 1979.

Dinky Toys TV Shows Space and Specials Blog reported on the upcoming auction. Have a read and click on the links.

Oddly enough I have seen something like this with very similar wheels and posted it some time ago.

https://toysfromthepast.blogspot.com/2013/06/unknownspanishspaceshipsfromthe80sdiecast.html

Despite being yellow it looks very similar. What do you think?

KO posted: " Lacy Scott and Knight are auctioning a Dinky prototype Captain Scarlet Angel Interceptor on Friday 24th June 2022. Their catalogue states: A very interesting prototype model of the Dinky Toys Captain Scarlet Angel Interceptor, is believed to be one of" Dinky Toys: TV Shows, Space and Specials Angel Interceptor Prototype up for auction KO Jun 14 Lacy Scott and Knight are auctioning a Dinky prototype Captain Scarlet Angel Interceptor on Friday 24th June 2022. Their catalogue states: A very interesting prototype model of the Dinky Toys Captain Scarlet Angel Interceptor, is believed to be one of the last prototypes of this particular models with leading authors suggesting it dates between 1979-1980. First evidence of the Captain Scarlet Angel Interceptor prototype was provided by The Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia compiled by Jacques Du Jardin. This model is part of the David Cooke Collection. (c) Lacy Scott and Knight More details can be found HERE Comment Like You can also reply to this email to leave a comment. Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Dinky Toys: TV Shows, Space and Specials. Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://dinkytvspace.com/2022/06/14/angel-interceptor-prototype-up-for-auction/ Powered by WordPress.com