Folding-up to very small (6"x4¼x1¾-deep - 150x100x44mm), there's enough play-value to keep any kid
happy in a caravan on a wet week in Rhyl! These days - of course - it'll either
be too-hot to play in a caravan without cooking yourself, or so wet there's a
danger the caravan will float away!
Fully unfolded; the gun-tower has shades of
'Hoth', the rest is - dare I suggest - more Flash
Gordon than Coruscant!
It comes with four of the diminutive little HO-figures I think I've shown
before (we'll look at them again in a second) and a small truck the seller (alkim96) kindly
added to the lot before sending, but which hadn't been in the sales shots.
And this is it, I think it's based on one
of the ex-Giogi/for-Kinder mini fire engines, dated to 1997
(the Soma set) that's quite possible,
but only as a vague copy; the Kinder
ones were clip-together while this is screwed, following the Micro-Machine principle.
"Plastic smalls" as those with
little finesse refer to them! I think we have looked at these before, and I
think I've only added the four new ones, all duplicates, this is one of each
from my sample, spacemen in grey and 'pilots' in green, each numbered on the
base from 1 (on the left, purple and orange) to 12 on the far right.
My whole sample, most of them came mint
with their aircraft and or 'spaceships' all of which went to charity about
20-odd years ago, found in generic packaging (I think) in Woolworth's it was only
the little Soma on the base, and I think I'm right in saying the fighters came
with one figure, the spaceships with two, hence the imbalance.
Also I don't know why I'm missing grey-5,
as I should have all of them? You can also see there are some minor colour
variations within each sub-tranche, but schemes stay true. Hopefully, one day,
I'll be able to show you all of them, but they are not a high priority, with
only two found in addition to the new four, over the years.
I have joked (at length) on the assorted
panoply of weapons, clothing, equipment and headdresses so won't bore you with
all that again, you can see what an eclectic mix of 1990's 'straight-to-video'
post-apocalyptic B-movie extras they are! And they make an excellent set of
extra bounty-hunters for Galoob's Star
Wars Micro-Machines!
Hey Hugh!
ReplyDeleteI have a bunch of these guys squirrelled away as well. They more or less fit with the Micro Machine Star Wars figures from a couple of decades ago.
I got mine from the small hard plastic space ship sets, some from those vending machine eggs that you see in malls, and others from (?).
They make good generic space men, space pirates, etc.
All made of the same soft vinyl plastic.
Absolutely Doug! A fine bunch of HO/20mm bounty-hunters!
ReplyDeleteFunily enough I have a small PVC spaceship from Soma which doesn't seem to have anything to do with them but being instead more like the sets of 12 figures . . . carded they were probably also capsule toys?
H
You know, I came across a bunch of eraser like spaceships a while back.
ReplyDeleteI bought a bunch.
They are easy to cut up (engines, weapons, etc) and reglue into other ships.
http://dougssoldiers.blogspot.com/search/label/spaceships
These were from an importer in clear plastic tubes of 72 ships.
The Soma ships I have are all hard plastic.
I doubt if you could cut them without a dremel.
I have a couple of the big battery Soma ships, but they didn’t come with figures.
I bought them in a department store Christmas gift box set with a bunch of the little ships.
No, mine is about 50mm long, single PVC lump in bronze with paint highlights.
ReplyDeleteI had the spaceships (plastic?) and fighters (die-cast?), but off-loaded them at the time as they were a bit big and/or not what I was then collecting! Doh!
H