Cast Aside! Bob's SpaceX Moon Buggy Recasts

Woodsy

My Moon Buggy was missing its astronaut driver. 

 I found one similar in size, and pose. It was made in flexible plastic.

First picture is of Moon Buggy with original wheels, and new proposed driver candidate.

I decided to recast the driver as well as repair the wheels' teeth. Then recast new wheels. The astronaut was rather thin, and under proportioned. I decided I wanted to make a new solid resin recast of a "thicker" bodied astronaut driver, to look more like the original.

I rebuilt the back side of the astronaut's body, and helmet to more respectable proportions using miliput putty. Sculptured some space suit details in. Then I mounted on toothpicks for air escape holes, and a resin pour hole for after it was casted in molding rubber. Air bubbles at this scale, are a killer to success!

Some pictures of molding making for Moon Buggy wheels also attached.

Final result pictures coming.

Bob A

USA

The Lone Star 007 Harpoon Toy: Recycled not Stirred

Recently Arto and I were discussing the James Bond Harpoon Gun toy by Lone Star.

Arto was lucky enough to pick up a beautiful box and half of the toy. 

It's interesting to note, as Arto pointed out to me, that the toy pistol says Rocket Gun on it.

The constituents of the harpoon rang a bell and a little Lone Star research may have revealed the parts they recycled to create this simple but fantastic 007 toy to celebrate Thunderball.

 So, here goes.

Here's the complete harpoon.

The black barrel looks to be a reused  Sharp Shooter one.

The shoulder stick seems to be a reused of the very same in the glorious Man from Uncle rifle set.

The icing on the cake came when Arto tracked down the actual gun courtesy of Alphadrome, an old design Lone Star recycled many times. This is the original Rocket Gun albeit with a red body.

Only the long grey suction dart remains a mystery. An older bow and arrow part? An older rifle dart? Or perhaps Lone Star made it especially for the harpoon.

What do you think? Have we IDd the recycled parts would you say?

Sunshine Family's Alien Friend

 I've always like toy recycling. Both my own and especially by toy companies.

One obscure bit of recycling you can see online in places like Plaid Stallions is the Sunshine/ Zython body.

Zython is this little-known and even less-seen green alien plastic figure, which Mattel released as part of their Space: 1999 range.

The Sunshine Family was an early generic wholesome doll line, also by Mattel, in the early to late Seventies.

It was a whole new world of sunshine! 

When Mattel came to garnish their TV line-up of Space: 1999 action dolls with another alien they thought, hmmm, what about the Sunshine Family! 

Here's the basic body they had.

And from behind.

Nothing alien about that, unless of course, we colour it green! Bob a strange head on and voila! Sunshine super being!

I give you Zython!

Have you any good recycling examples readers? 

Kevin's Nuclear Freighter Traffic Light

Hi,

When going through my box of scrap Spacex toys all very battered, I found enough bits to put together a couple of Nuclear Freighters.

 I decided to swap parts over to create a complete yellow one and a green one. 

To complete the traffic lights, I included my red one from the 2005 and Beyond toys.

Cheers,

Kevin

UK

Ed's Trash To Treasure Flagstop Station

Woodsy,

It was great reading the recent series of posts about turning scraps from the parts bins into something useful. 

While my mind doesn't work well enough to come up with ideas for a spaceship or spy toy or action figure, it wants to focus more on what I might be able to do for my train layout. 

A few years back I wanted a really small flagstop station (I believe they're referred to as 'request stops' in the UK) for my Edge of Town micro-layout. 

Plasticville makes a small passenger platform that looks good, and I used one for a while, but I wanted something smaller still.

 Inspiration came from the Internet when viewing photos of rural milk platforms and flagstops.

 I ended up cutting down an old Plasticville platform that was a bit beat-up, added supports, a new wooden deck, and a passenger shelter made from a Plasticville 2-stall outhouse with the doors and inner dividing wall removed, and a bench added. 

I gave the whole construct a disheveled, 'I need maintenance now' look and am quite satisfied with the results.

From Request Stop Vegas!

Ed

MONSTROUS HANDS

 I love obscure facts about obscure toys.

Here are Lincoln International's monsters.

I read on the brilliant Plaid Stallions that the hands of the Werewolf, Mummy and the Fly were based on the fabulous hands of the Aurora Wolfman, pictured below.

My own observation is that maybe Imperial's Classic Movie Monster Wolfman has the same hands too.

Have you any of these toys readers?

*

Another hand!

Zython Sunshine

I love a good recycled toy story and the Zython's another one.

Mattel used an existing line of dolls they had to make Zython, the Space 1999 alien. At least the body.

It was the Sunshine Family pictured above, the adults. Mattel just made it green.

If your'e considering recreating Zython why not try and get hold of an original Sunshine Family doll! I cheated and bought a green Monster High.

What do you think?

There's No Escape Batman!

 Tracking down clones or origins of Sixties TV character toy guns is fun.

Here's another.

Lincoln's cool Batman Escape Gun.

And here are it's clones or maybe origins.

Do you have any of these? 

Larami Space Shooter. Presumably a later clone.

Unbranded Satellite and Rocket Pistol. Could these be older than Lincoln's gun?

Images: courtesy of Ebay

Space Ace Weapons Mystery

 As soon as I saw this I knew I'd seen those 1984 Space Ace rifles before. But where!

Bingo! They're the Action Man Space Ranger rifles aka Space Arms! 

But why?

RE-INFORCED! THE STORY OF KENNER'S RECYCLED STAR WARS TOYS

Even if you're not a Star Wars fan this is interesting for toy collectors generally.

Long time Star wars collector and writer Ron Salvatore has torn apart the Falcon to find all the Star Wars toys that Kenner up- and re- cycled. It looks old and I've no idea when it was written but I liked it a lot.

For instance, did you know that the Kenner Gamorrean Guard became their Friar Tuck? Me neither!

Its a fascinating story, so have a shufty.

http://theswca.com/images-speci/recycle/ 

I also found Ron's bio page really quite poignant, talking about his Mom and Dad and those gloriously free days of our childhoods. Even though I'm much older and British, it struck a chord, which I imagine is universal.

http://theswca.com/ron.html

Have you come across Ron Salvatore before?

IT'S RIGGED!

This CLIM extravaganza is a classic multi-wheeled monster.

Interestingly, the listing on Spain's Todocoleccion suggests that the red driver cab is somehow linked to a Star Wars Mini Rig!

What do you think?

Here's two I saw on Ebay.

Is it the MTV-7?

or ISP-6?

Red Hat Man

 I received this card and Sangria on Father's day. Our daughter's family had just got back from Majorca. 

As soon as I saw the red hat I thought .... Action Man!

Avoiding it's unpleasant Mateodor roots I wondered what else Action Man could use a red hat for? 

A Canadian Mountie? This is a Little Big Man Mountie in this group shot.

Or A Mexican Caballero like this Aurora kit?

 Anyone got any pictures of red hat Action Man or figures?