Custom SpaceX Moonbase Box and Board

Another old gem from Worthpoint, a custom made box and board for SpaceX no less!

What do you think?

The description read

 "Includes a professional custom mars landscape and custom box. What you see is what you get. Very unique. Very large set...will be shipped in 2 boxes. The Mars Battle board landscape is large enough for 54mm too. BattleBoard made by Jim Clouse, terrain artist."

A SPACEX/ GOLDEN ASTRONAUT COLOURING BOOK?

Recalling Scoop's ace collection of colouring books last month, I was lamenting the fact that that Triang SpaceX/ Golden Astronaut never did one, a colouring book. I'd have loved it as a kid.

Thinking about it, there are quite a few SpaceX-style line drawings in other colouring books to probably create one!

The Man on the Moon colouring books contain quite a few - which Wotan Bill found - and I think there are more finds on the blog of SpaceX-style line drawings.

There's also new-fangled online trickery which allows you to convert pictures to line drawings. Here's a sketchy backing card one I did this morning.

If such a Triang SpaceX/ Golden Astronaut colouring book existed then it would need a cover. 

Any ideas? 

Your Concept drawings, lay-outs, mock-ups and photos and sketches welcomed readers!

MOON BLISTER

 With Moon Bases on our minds I've been wondering what a small-scale Triang SpaceX Moon Base module on a card might have looked like.

You would have had to buy four of them to make up a small base.

I'm really surprised there aren't any blister carded plastic moon bases or moon stations by any old 60's or 70's company that I can see. The living quarters and modules would have been perfect for a blister card.

Anyways, here's my rough bottle-inspired mock-up. You can do better I'm sure.

SPACEX II CUSTOM: THE MOCK CRASH TENDER

I've done this before in the past so I couldn't resist placing the Imai model tender with a mock-up SpaceX card to give us a Mock Crash Tender. It would make a lovely Easter prezzy!

It could be done a lot better I know, maybe with the blister showing and maybe even a SpaceX II backing card but it'll do for starters. 

If anyone wants to improve on it then feel free and send us a snap.

In the meantime, what do you think of this CUSTOM job?

SPACEX III: LATEST IDEAS

Here's a custom idea I had for a new SpaceX III toy. Its based on a Snoopy vehicle that i thought had a real SpaceX vibe. What do you think?

My old Tesco Printed Book

A NEW SPACEX TOY RANGE?

I often imagine new SpaceX vehicles, whether real or made-up.

I'd like to create a new second-hand SpaxeX fleet using small plastic toys I find at car boots.

Lockdown means no car boots so here's a few starters for ten.

SpaceX Farming Division:

I love the Kinder tractor with the Booster Rocket-type fuel cell!

I've blogged this before, Moonbase Junior's futuristic harvester. So SpaceX its untrue!

SpaceX Sub Sea Division

I think the TV series Octonauts would help here. The free gifts from the comics and the toys offer some fabulous SpaceXy designs.

SpaceX Deep Space Division

McDonalds 2019 Snoopy range has some great little space vehicles in it that would SpaceX up easilly.

Which toys would you include in a 'second hand' SpaceX range?

The SpaceX Cosmic Periscope Craft

I like the look of this multi-coloured plastic periscope toy I saw on the Bay.

It just reminds me of old space toys ike Tri-ang SpaceX - 

there's a feel of the ATS maybe?

or the epic Photonic Propulsion Space Station perhaps?

Maybe its just the colourful tiered plastic that gets me excited!

It could be be a wholly new SpaceX toy, the Cosmic Periscope Craft maybes!

Have you ever invented a new SpaceX or Golden Astronaut toy?

kev's 2015 monochrome spacex custom cards

by Kevin D

spacex customs office

I often wonder which future toys may have come out of the Project SWORD and SpaceX ranges in the Sixties and early Seventies if the companies had continued.

We know Tri-ang had plans for three more SpaceX toys - like the Rocket Transporter -  [read all about them on Paul V's uber-cool site http://www.triangspacextoys.info/SpGAtoys/RTrs/SpLTRTrs.html] 

But what if WE had been responsible for more SpaceX toy designs!

One potential SpaceX contender that caught my eye was the Mars and Venus Flyby vehicle. I like it because it 's very old school NASA and a possible kitbash between existing SpaceX toys like the ATS and the Lunar Orbitor! 

Then again it might be too similar to these toys and have been branded boring by young SpaceX fans! Its hard being a toy designer!

Maybe some of the UK's missile and rocket projects at the time like the Black Knight may have tapped into kids' zest for zooming objects. These projects were often featured in comics like Look and Learn.

Another SpaceX contender and space age object I personally loved and still do is the Skylon, the metal structure towering over the Festival of Britain in the Fifties. 

As a Sixties SpaceX toy idea it may have been just too old and perhaps overly fiddly. Then again Biro the pen people made a model so maybe it might have worked!

Which designs would you put forward readers?

spacex toys annual imagined

SpaceX annual cover imagined by the multi-talented Mister Kevin D.

From my 2015 email archive.

Another spacex toys annual custom cover

from Kev D ..... one more for the hell of it!

[2015 email archive]

LOOK! MY TENDER! CUSTOM SPACEX CRASH TENDER TOY CONCEPT

Posting the Gang of Five rare SpaceX toys the other night whet my appetite for what they might look like carded up and shop fresh.

Well, in a fit of unabashed enthusiasm, here's my attempt at a custom SpaceX Crash Tender! I've used a picture of  the die-cast Chara Hot Wheels Thunderbirds Fire Tender as the toy itself, which I hope you agree ain't that bad a choice. The card front has been borrowed from Frank Bellamy's beautiful crash tender art in TV21 as have the two 'free' trading cards you 'get' with this imagineered toy. Acceptable?