KEV'S SPACE 1999 STRETCHA FETCHA

Hi,

Inspired by the posts on the Matchbox Stretcha Fetcha, here is my conversion to the version seen briefly in Space 1999.

Tanks a lot,

Kevin

The Superman Monster Truck

Hi

Here is another Monster Truck with a Star Cars connection. This time a Hot Wheels pick-up decorated in Superman colours, complete with a flowing plastic cape. This one has a clip-on Battle Slammer nose attachment to assist in demolishing other vehicles.

The model depicts a real Monster Truck, Superman, which made its debut in 2005. It is based on the Ford F-150 pick-up.

There have been several other Monster Trucks based on various DC or Marvel Superheroes, so these could form a mini-collection.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Amphibious Plane Anyone?

This new plastic toy available from Alibaba intrigued me. Its a waterproof plane. Now why would you want that function, besides it being pretty neat?

LEW'S BAZOOKA

Superthunderstingcar! This classic show recently turned up on Moonbase and seeing it again after all these years, I can see how the memory plays tricks on me.

With a bit of research - featuring a pic from your own blog from Scoop's TV Toys Take Two - I can now see my toy bazooka and the one in the Pete and Dud show are different toys.

Mine was this Merit Bazooka!

Looey

Oz

MORE SIXTEEN 12 ALPHAN FIGURES ON THE WAY.

 Sixteen 12 are adding two more Moonbase Alpha astronaut figures to the two already released, plus a special edition Commander Koenig.

Alan Carter with Moonbuggy and Commander John Koenig

New releases announced: Professor Victor Bergman and Controller Paul Morrow.

The Special Edition Commander John Koenig.

Some additional photos from Sixteen 12.

TOYS 1973

 

What do you remember?

Thunderbird 7: The Blog Effect?

Bill talks about the blog effect now and then so when I saw this I wondered if this would be a case in point as the effect usually involves misquoting MC content.

Thunderbirds Wiki have a description of a Fantasy Thunderbird 7 at the bottom of their their JR21 toys section https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/JR_21_Toys_(J.Rosenthal)

The idea of a fantasy Thunderbird 7 is OK as it stands, as one was released as a model kit. But it was released by Imai and not JR21. The photograph shown is a one-off custom created by erstwhile blog contributor Ferryman for his own entertainment, which we featured here in 2009!

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2009/06/jr21-thunderbird-7-toy-and-custom-box.html

JR21 themselves never released a Thunderbird 7.

So is Thunderbirds Wiki's gaff the blog effect?

The Imai Thunderbird 7 is actually the Project SWORD Beetle, which I described many times on MC including here in 2014 https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2014/04/new-origins-of-project-sword-toys.html

DID THE DINKY OR JR21 FAB1 APPEAR IN THUNDERBIRDS?

My query yesterday about the size of the Thunderbird front-end 2 prop used by Century 21 got me thinking about the size of FAB1's used in Thunderbirds.

Specifically I've been wondering if they ever used the toy versions of FAB1 in the show? - For distance shots maybe and namely the Dinky and JR21 FAB1's, both available from 1966 onwards I think.

There's no mention of them in Marc J. Fratassio's resume of the models used in Thunderbirds

http://www.lestersdomain.org/superm/tech/sfx/tbirds/models2.html

or his gallery of die-casts used in the show

http://www.lestersdomain.org/superm/tbirds/diecasts-gallery.html and http://www.lestersdomain.org/superm/tbirds/diecasts.html

so its probably a non-starter.

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