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Saturday, 21 April 2018

THE TELSALDA THUNDERBIRD X-2: WHAT IS IT?

This is a strange bird.

The Telsalda Thunderbird X-2. I saw it on the Bay.

Now, Telsalda are not at the forefront of my mind when I think of space toys**

This one is real hotch-potch of names and styles.

Its a sort of Flying saucer space car with its name borrowed from Tracy Island and X-Planes I suppose.

The red fins recall the red fins on the unrelated X-series of toys like the Space Racer, whilst the rear engines remind me of the rear of the Blue Bird Space Glider.

The box art has me stumped though! What is it?

And that's the Jimson crown logo in the bottom left corner!

Has anyone got this strange Telsalda Jimson concoction?

** Telsalda did release a rare and beautiful space vehicle and I would love better photo's of it for the blog if you have one, as it's literally nowhere else on the net - The Rocket Firing Space Car

http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/telsalda-rocket-firing-space-car.html

Arco Push 'n' Light Space Rocket: A Star Wars Turkey?

Sometimes you just know instinctively that a space toy is ugly.

We've seen some real dirt bags over the years on Moonbase.

But this toy is in that grey area between worlds, between not bad at all and a downright mess, in my opinion of course!

It's Arco's 1979 Push 'n' Light Spaceship.

I quite like the look of it for some reason but then again think its not something I would want.

One intriguing element is the non-battery light and sound. How does that work? A dynamo of some sort?

With it coming out in the early years of Star Wars fever there must be something of Lucas's universe in here. I'm just not sure what. Is it a knockoff?

Its ground-hugging design is quite novel though.

What do you think readers?

Captain Future's Toy Cupboard

Brother Midnight's suggestion about mystery header card art lead me to go looking for other possible Captain Future toys.

There are absolutely tons of them online and examples fro allover the world. It must have a been a global hit when it was on TV in the late 70's!

Here's a Japanese space pistol with brilliant graphics on the back.

Here's Capitan Futuro figure from Mexico maybe?

and here's a French Capitaine Flam figure of Johann.

I'm still not sure it's Captain Future art on the header card I posted yesterday but Captain Future has certainly spawned a whole toy chest of fab stuff over the years.

Have you seen Captain Future or got any collectables?

FLASH HAS A BRAND NEW BAG

Its always a buzz when I see new ways pf packaging LP style astronauts.

This was a new bag I saw this January on Ebay:

Flash Gordon Space Warriors.

These were released by MSS, M. Shimmel and Sons of Brooklyn New York,

Have you got any LP style astronauts?

Friday, 20 April 2018

Mystery Space Robot Target Game

We've probably had this mystery toy on Moonbase before but like the proverbial goldfish I forget. My only excuse is that we are very close to our ten thousandth post on the blog!

This toy space gun set, which often turn up on Ebay, has card art that looks like its from a cartoon. Does anyone know what it is?

Added later

I saw this on Ebay today and its more or less the same toy, just different card art!

Made in Hong Kong, reading the small label at the bottom it looks like this one was a Canadian import.

Just noticed the top set above was made in China.

Brain Teaser

I heard a schoolkid say the phrase mental brain today. The word mental was being used an adjective.

I had to think about this. Can the brain be described as mental? Is it like saying a thoughtful brain or a mindful brain? Are these rubbish?

I suppose they could be tautologies. Where you say the same thing twice without one of the words being needed. Like hot fire or wet rain or living animate objects or missing one out alternately.

Can you think of better examples? What about the toy shop was full of toys?