Birthday Magic! Ed's ADDCO Magic Products and Terranova47's X-200

Woodsy,

After looking at Terranova47's July "OKAY Adventure Annual" post and looking at the photos he shared of his X-200 with the "ADDCO Magic Products" stamping - above - , I started thinking (not too hard mind you - it gives me a headache LOL).

A) I don't believe his X-200 was a '90s re-make, but rather a vintage '50s era piece

B) ADDCO (Advanced Design Development Co.) apparently acquired toys from Pyro, Renwal, and others to use in their 'Magic Guide' series of toys.

Attached are photos of:

Auburn Rubber #518 Fire Truck (eBay)

-A very low-res, copy of ADDCO's Magic Guide instruction sheet dated from 1954 featuring Pyro's X-200 Space Ranger (Worthpoint).

Pyro F7U Cutlass and USAF XF-90 Jet which too have the pins on top (my collection). The ADDCO stamping isn't present on my Cutlass or XF-90.

Renwal No.161 Jet with the ADDCO stamping underneath and the plastic pin sticking up from the fuselage (my collection).

Pyro XF-90 with the stamping present (eBay).

The toy itself - X-200- was similar in concept to Brian H's Tudor Rose Rarity in that two aircraft/spaceships hung down from metal rods, attached to them by lengths of vinyl plastic tubing.

A (windup?) motor on the assembly allowed the planes to fly in circles at breakneck speed. The Auburn fire truck is unusual, and I have no idea what that mechanism entailed.

To-date, I have yet to find a photo of the complete assembly for any Magic Guide toy.

From Vegas Base

Ed

Latest in a Long Line of LEM’s

 Knowing my love of vintage space exploration memorabilia, Woodsy kindly found this cool little model in an antique store recently. 

Already built and painted, it is a simple model of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, apparently by Revell. Its smaller than the Airfix version and measures about 4" across the legs and about 3" high.

It comes on a neat lunar surface base, with a single astronaut (currently attached with blu-tack). Its not a massively detailed model, but captures the shape of the Bug well. Whoever originally owned it has painted it simply with a dull silver and gold on the landing stage.

The base is well moulded and has depressions for the pads and a cratered surface. Between the two bigger craters is what appears to be a slot, which leads me to believe that a stand may have been attached here and that it would have originally supported a CSM, flying overhead.

The 1968 Revell catalogue has a 1/94 scale kit which seems to match the description and general shape of the kit, as seen at top right here.

On the underside it is just marked 'Revell Inc' and is undated. on the right of the photo you can see the slot for the stand, quite clearly.

Compare the 1/80 scale model of the LEM which I built in a fanciful 'Spacex' style livery, which is again smaller than the 1/72 Airfix kit.

Finally, the Revell model with the tiny Blue Shield toy version, showing the general size

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Many versions of the iconic moon landing vehicle have been made over the years, both in toy, model and novelty form. Here are a few that I have collected.

 

APOLLO MOON EXPLORING SERIES

UNKNOWN JAPANESE LEM (WITH MAGNETIC DOCKING RING)

JUMPING LEM (WITH SPRING AND SUCTION CUP REMOVED)

STICKY WALL CLIMBING LEM (WITH ADHESIVE FEET)

UNKNOWN CANDY CONTAINER LEM

BLUE SHIELD LEM AND ASTRONAUTS

CLIFFORD LEM

CLIFFORD LEM AND CSM SET

TRIANG SPACEX LEM (SAT ON AIRFIX LEM BASE FOR SCALE)

BRUDER NOVELTY LEM

KELLOGS/R&L CEREAL PREMIUM LEM

KINDER SURPRISE LEM

BRUDER/GIODI LEM VARIATIONS

HING FAT RACK TOY LEM

HOT WHEELS PLANET MICRO LEM

MJ's Moonbase Anniversary Flight

https://youtu.be/ZnhopUKTp6Y?si=h4FcnXPurWgH3JFr 

MJ

Southcoast Base

Birthday Rover: Holiday Haul

Another find in the Cyprus toy store was this pair of Matchbox copies, presumably made specifically for the Jumbo store. There were four in all, including a small Shuttle and a NASA patrol jeep. Ive not been able to find the official version of the moon rover here, but I do have a rocket transporter version if the crawler.

Both are nicely detailed and well made, more biased towards plastic parts than is usual for Matchbox, with plastic bases rather than die cast.

The rover is quite light and has a nice open cab, which could potentially offer room gor customisation.

The crawler has an elevating radar scanner and english decals.

Blog Birthday Party Favour: JR21 Dart Pistol Update!

 Since first being made aware of the JR21. Dart Pistol with Periscope by a reader 16 years ago I've loved it. In fact it was a prize here for the blog's first birthday back in 2009!

 I don't own one but covet it's simple obscurity from afar. Yep, I'm a sucker for it!

As such I've updated sightings of it and it's clones/ forebears here on MC a number of times.

Well, in birthday fashion, here's another, an absolute dead ringer. 

The SA 17 Dart Pistol with Periscope.

It's all there, the gun, the target, the Sean Connery lookalike graphic. Just JR21 missing! 

Here it is in its auction bundle seen earlier this year.

Is it a clone or the original?

A final observation is the resemblance of the famous Japanese Sekiden toy pistol, a toy I adored as a kid. Me and bigger brothers had running battles with these things, the compressed powder balls flying everywhere. Daft really but that was the time. Did you have one?

Have you any toy dart guns?

It's Our 17th Birthday!