T is for Two (Which Became Three!) - Space Transports

Also in the Really Useful Box (previous post) was this pair, and again I haven't the faintest idea where either of them came from, but they are a couple of crackers, one an ephemeral piece of tat never designed to survive more than a summer's day or two in the garden, the other a classic piece of US 'dime-store' plastic in a weird red colour which changes - depending on the light - from purple, to pink, to maroon and back again!

I'm guessing from the large'ish, clip-on canopy that this was a candy-container, or more-likely - from the size of the compartment - a single-pastille bubble-gum container? Scaled to a rough 20/25mm figure wise and manufactured in the style of earlier dime-store toys from Pyro, Kleeware and their ilk, it's a space-ship/vessel of sorts and shot in brittle styrene with additional metal axles / ethylene wheels.

The little glued-on, stand-off frame that holds the wheels clear of the body looks to be a generic moulding that would also fit a tank, armoured-car or civil vehicle, so there may have been a assortment of these?

Is it browny-red or heliotrope purple? This is really nice but I have no recollection of buying it, maybe at one the NEC Birmingham/BP-shows? Definitely a 'space-age' or concept car of the 1950's and similar to other space cars including the Kilgore one we saw again the other day.

I don't know if it was issued under the Wannatoys branding, but this seems to be a Dillon Beck original, marked Dillon Beck USA on the interior and having a DB number-plate, or more accurately 'licence-plate'! There used to be a lovely azure-blue 'Futurecar' somewhere on the Internet, but I can't find it now, also with the DB 'quality' (if you believe Nabisco!) triangle and the same red canopy, it was a bit smarter than mine and had no whitening glue-marks!

I nearly forgot this was sitting in Picasa . . . so T is for Three! This one is a Wannatoys branded one and we've seen it before in two colours, but I shot this on Adrian's stall ages ago and it's been waiting for a dime-store space post!

Sizer; the car is closer to 28mm/1:48th I fear, but the ship can be a single-seat 1:72nd, or snug, two-man 1:76th! In a galaxy far, far away, long, long ago, they had A-wings, B-wings and X-wings . . . among other wing types, I think this latest addition to my space-fleet must be a sandbag-wing!