T is for ♯♪♫♫♪ They Just Hope Their Legs Don't Break . . . ♫♪♪♫

♫♫♪. . . Walking . . . on the Moooon! ♫♪

I mentioned the other day that we'd have a look at the sub-scale astronauts, and while this probably isn't the Post I had planned in my head - because the complete-sets are still buried in the garage somewhere - here are a few of them, loose for now.

I only have one of these and he's a stand-alone for another reason, as the rest are PVC-alike, while he is a hollow, two-piece, glued polystyrene construct. ID'd with the help of Bill B's catalogue we can add another brand to the cannon - Kin Ming.

As you can see he has two holes in his base, there is a further oblong slot in his backpack; which I forgot to shoot, but between them they suggest he was possibly fixed to something (perhaps temporarily, pluged-in) and/or tethered to the same or something else! So possibly an accessory for a larger Kin Ming plastic, or die-cast toy, maybe a Space Shuttle?

We looked at these K&M (aka Wild Republic) astronauts as a set in a Post a while ago, but three samples have now been combined and here's an assortment of base-colour and visor-colour variations, while the sharp-eyed among you will also notice that some have had their red and blue highlights hand-painted (typically; the paler-based ones) others are all-stenciled, however the flag is stenciled on both types.

The more interesting of the four samples here; the storage-sample has a note on the card saying (in my handwriting!) 'Probably Wing Mau Trading', now I'm pretty thorough - you won't find me running about the Internet making things up as I go along and x all else, so there will be a reason both for the attribution, and the 'Probably', which is with the lost sets.

I suspect Wing Mau are somehow associated with one or more of the sets but not one of the others with the same figures (sounds like a vast sub-set, but I think there are only two or three sets!), and further, as Wing Mau are actually John Wong & Co., that they may end up being tied in to either Pioneer or Realtoy, or both!

'Trading' is not factory, manufacturing or engineering, and I think J Wong's Wing Mau were middle-men passing stuff through from the Hing Kong manufacturers to the European, US and other end-uses, and that these will end up being associated with several brands, brand-marks or phantoms. As I said the other day; I think one of the missing sets may be Galaxy International, aother possibly Ocean, or Pioneer but don't write it down yet, I'm not putting it in the tags - thorough see!

As to the 'Pioneer and/or Realtoy' thought; although all a PVC type material, some of these are as hard as the Dacron/Sky Line armymen, some are as soft as the Pioneer stuff, and they are cavity-(?)-numbered on the base in the same alternate-codes' way as the very crude SP Toys small scale soldiers from Supreme thus;

1A /1B - Cordless Scewdriver

2A / 2B - Ring [metal?] Detector

3A / 3B - EVA Suit

They all have an additional 'Made in China', the base of the flag (in which it swivels freely) having only the national identifier.

Finally is this little orphan, marked Made in China and with a numeral '2' and in a dense PVC-type polymer he's quite Realtoy but smaller than the soldiers, he's also ticking some Pioneer, Smart and Supreme boxes, and might be one of a group in the storage sets?!