So those funny hollow-semi-flats we looked
at back at the start of the Blog were from a rack-toy shooting game called Military Action Force Gun Set by a -
probably - madeupbrand; KM, but it
could be a Kader [Manufacturing] brand/subsidiary?
The figures (one each of the three poses)
came with a plastic toy pistol modelled after a Luger Parabellum and six balls
which might be a silicon/rubber type or a blow-moulded type? The figures
providing the targets to be knocked over!
[Now known to be Kwong Ming Plastic Pty. of Hing Kong]
[Now known to be Kwong Ming Plastic Pty. of Hing Kong]
Milton
Bradley's TV advertised toy came around the time we
moved house and while I vaguely remember the adverts on telly, I better
remember the contemporaneous Big-Track
which has also been on Plaid Stallions (an excellent nostalgia hit of a blog)
alongside this Star Bird Command Base.
And when are 70's fashions coming back, I
want a pair of high, five-button waistband, purple, brushed-cotton flares . . .
with orange pocket-flashes and five inch turn-ups!
I had ID'd this years ago, but failed to leave
a note where I could find it, so it's been stuck in the MB folder on the dongle! However cropped out of those old eBay
shots (not watermarked) are some figures I think are home-painted on orange
plastic - the orange seems to be commonest with the white and yellow less so,
Kent Sprecher has one somewhere which looks redder?
Also a shot of earlier box art showing what
seems to be the Tim-Mee 30mm
downscale appropriated by Milton's
design studio with the power-pack the original was carrying, removed.
By the time of the German language edition (Supervogel Operationsbasis on Plaid
Stallions), the MB figure had
replaced the better looking one in the artwork. Box-art and catalogue art often
contains models that never actually leave the factory, either 'as advertised';
or at all!
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