. . . ostensively for the rubber robots, they being a growing sub-category or side-collection, but which came with three more of the roughly 50mm (thick bases) astronauts in two new poses. The incomplete red-yellow plug-together - I think - belongs to another, as yet to be tracked-down, line?
I wasn't convinced they actually went together as the greens were subtly different and the robots were configured as pencil-tops with a large hole in their 'catflap' (as Andy Wood succinctly put it, elsewhere, the other day!) against the integral bases of the Nasa'nauts, so I was going to separate them, robots with the rest, Astronauts with the existing pink one.
However, this turned-up on eBay, giving us a branding for the US market (Famus Corporation - new to the tag-list I think!) and showing they definitely go together, which leaves me with a quandary; if they stay together they will be absent from both the robot-eraser box and the Astronauts!It's a quandary I haven't fully reconciled yet, do I, for instance, put the kharki-green Maisto front-loader with the farm tractors, the military plant (small but growing category) or keep them in a Maisto tub, denying the other AFV categories of their Maisto's too, and while - particularly with the figures - it's increasingly a case of 'theme over maker', it's not fully decided one way or the other, but I think one day I'll be breaking down everything to themes, even the Airfix and Britains?
I wouldn't want you thinking I lose sleep over this stuff, I don’t, but if you then can't find something you know you have in the 'stash' - because having looked in the three obvious/previous places, you forget you started a fourth category just for them - it becomes a pain . . . erasers or pencil tops??!
Anyway another purchase (if you wait a few weeks this stuff all turns up for pennies) gives us the four known robot poses (from the card), three astronauts and a smaller 'bot (also a pencil-topper) in a variety of colours (8 with the two greens, 11 with the carded set), and the box well and truly ticked . . . just remains; where to put them!And I'm assuming the robots are based on some other-titled Japanese TV-serial robots of the 1970's or '80's?
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