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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

C is for Captain Video

Bit of eye-candy for the sci-fi 'pulp' fans with this box ticker...Lido's Captain Video space vehicles. Really a space-train, with each chassis having a hook at one end and a towing-eye at the other, they are to be attached in a chain and dragged round the carpet/sand-pit while the operator makes ray-gun noises!

The operator being encouraged by the plug-in ray-guns...

...and weird 'sails'...radar?

The downside with these tiny vehicles was that they are a hard polystyrene and subject to easy damage, while the plug-ins start life with quite a tight fit leading to snapped locating spigots, and latter - once they've worked a bit loose - loss. Likewise the wheels can work loose and disappear into the ether of lost toy parts!

Thanks to Mercator Trading for the photo-op.
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2 comments:

  1. johnpreeceDecember 30, 2014 at 2:10 PM

    Just wanted to say thanks for all of the posts in the last year. I have enjoyed following the blog whether for new information or the occasional 'I used to have one of those'.

    Happy New Year
    John

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  2. Hugh WalterDecember 30, 2014 at 2:34 PM

    Thank you very much John...I'd love to return the compliment, but...you've rather starved me of my Spencer Smith / Eriksson fix in 2014! I'll have to did mine out and publish something...'Real life' I know! Maybe this coming year...?

    Hugh

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