Did Century 21 Toys Use a Marx Tank?

I've often wondered if Century 21 Toys used a Marx Cap Firing Tank as the basis for their Mobile and Bridge Carrying Tank.

I haven't got either but I do have the turret of the Century 21 Toys tank kindly donated by Bill B.

Here's a my thinking in pictures.

What do you think?

TWO TOY TITANS MEET: OX AND MECHANOID

Here's an image from last Summer in the garden. I am hankering for sunshine!

On the table are a plastic Mechanoid and snap-together Zero-X.

Vintage plastic icons all.

Have you got different toys you can put together and send me a piccy of?

LANCE'S TOWERING TRIPOD

Hey Woodsy,

Loving the WoW posts and seeing all the different takes on the Martian machines. 

I sent you mine if you'd like to see and share them with the rest of gang. Sadly I have not gotten it to actually walk so it is just a static model. But at least it towers and glows a bit!

Lance

USA

National Geographic Cape Kennedy Set

I love this space helmet toy I saw on the Bay this year.

I saved these images.

It opens out to reveal one half as a neat lunar diorama

but the bit I love is the other half, a Saturn V diorama complete with red gantry and crawler just like the Project SWORD Cape Kennedy Set!

It was released by learning kings National Geographic but I don't know when.

You got one?

JUNK MARTIAN MACHINE

This could almost qualify for my Johnny Lemon brand of household fantasy modelling.

Here's a War of the Worlds Tom Cruise Tripod made from scraps and cheap toys. Its a short film and the modeler, MAKE:, has kept the film short and sweet.

What do you think?

TOM CRUISES'S WAR OF THE WORLD'S TOY PROPS

I had to chuckle when I saw these War of the Worlds props on icollector.

Yet they also gave me a chill as they're so commonplace.

From the set of Tom Cruises's modern re-make they are described as Little Tikes toy cars and the lucky winners got them still covered in alien blood vines!

For some reason the toy police car went for 5 times as much as the red and yellow one.

Not sure which scenes they are from in the movie. Are you?

Would you have bought these props readers?

Well's Tripods Watched Walking in Woking

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Blog friend Paul V kindly sent in the link for this fabulous statue of one of the Tripods.

Its in Woking in Southern England where H.G.Well's War of the Worlds was centred.

There's more Martian street art there too.

To see the full article by Richard Hawkins and his photographs then click here: Sci Fi UK Review

JOSEPH SVEC'S WAR OF THE WORLDS SCRATCH DIORAMA

Greetings Woodsy and Moonbase readers

Here is my H.G.Wells War of the Worlds diorama as displayed in a local bookstore window in Jackson California. 

At 8' x 2.5', it has approximately 45 hand painted 1890's British infantry figures plus several civilians. I also added the scene when the Martian cylinder has opened up and the humans encounter the Martians for the first time. 

The Martian figures that are coming out of the cylinder and the downed tripod are based on a 1890's book illustration. I also added more tentacles to the martian tripods, and one of them has grabbed an unfortunate soldier.

This version also features more building debris and Martian red weed. The martian tripods are based on the book rather than the 1950's or 2005 movie versions. The buildings in the diorama are from 21st century. 

The river was made by Pegasus Hobbies. The martian tripods are homemade. The martian red weed plants are from an aquarium supply store!

Joseph Svec

2014

First posted in 2014 as a series of posts.