Very much a follow-up to this post, which
does itself link to the previous sighting here, so a third outing tonight! And
far from just ID'ing them, I've managed to find and ID three lots under four monikers
which is a pretty satisfying state of affairs, I can tell you!
They weren't capsule toys (I'm sure I've
seen something similar on gum-ball machine insert-cards, so I'll keep an eye
out for more on these!), they were Cosmo
Explorer Glow in Dark Alien aliens, and imported or 'jobbed' into the 'States by Way Out Toys Inc., of New York (left
hand card), however, under the Way Out
sticker is the unmistakable Soma logo
printed on the backing card!
So the ones we looked at last time were Soma, and in this pack we have a new
three-finger pose (pink, right) and a new four-finger pose (greenish, left),
and a colour variant - in the middle - of the pair I already had, with plastic-colour,
pose and paint variations; who knows how many you can find? Soma pose-counts are often in sixes or twelve's,
so it should be dozens, as a minimum . . .
oh goodie!
Meanwhile the card on the right shows what
seems to be all four poses (some sources state six poses, but the blister say
four - two pairs, two singles) of the Imperial
Toys (another importer/jobber, but also a contracting one) Glow in the Dark Alien Invaders, in
what seems to be all three colours.
Well, once you know what you're looking for,
finding them (and inaccurate information about them! I'm talkin' to yooh -
Pinterest and Wortpoint!) becomes easy, so I bought some . . . so you don't
have to! But why wouldn't you want a glowing army of human-knapping
cattle-botherers!
The Imperial
ones are slightly less sophisticated in that they all [and only] have black
eyes, with no other decoration and a lower pose-frequency count on the two with weapons,
but then the Soma planet sends it's
emissaries out with no weapons at all, so on that score these guys are
better-off!
Close-ups; because I can, and because the Soma ones are good-enough in the link and now
in storage, so I couldn't shoot them for this post and I didn't want to de-card
the three newies. I would imagine Imperial
commissioned theirs after they'd seen Soma's,
but the factories in China may have spied on each other; bringing them out at roughly
the same time - around 1992-94'ish, I believe?
But I got a half-decent image through the
blister and shone a torch on them for the de
rigueur glowing in the dark shot! On the eight I have now we can see gold,
blue, green and orange paint with a distinct four polymer colours. And while
Imperial have gone with one 'species', Soma's are - so far - all different.
They are all a nice 54/60mm with the
Imperial Toys set having a constant, slightly cone-headed physiology (for
people who follow all that 'greys', 'nordics', 'talls' and 'midgets' LGM stuff),
with the cone/bulge at the rear. They are also all marked 'Imperial-[over]-CHINA' faintly, across
their shoulders.
All the searching which resulted from
knowing what they all were actually threw-up a third lot, another novelty
importer; Amscan, their's sold as an
eight in North America and a twelve here (but the spelling suggests they were both available for order in all sales-territories?), but only one pose/colour-way, with
orange eyes. I haven't got any yet (they are findable), but in those multiples,
too-many, so I'll wait until I see one or two in a loose/mixed lot.
I can't work out if the picture
bottom-right is a mock-up or an artist-enhanced photograph, nor is it clear
whether they have been and gone or are yet to arrive, but the image comes up
when Googling them, so it (the picture) has been released somewhere (might have been the Amscan website), for some
reason . . . something to look for!
I kept forgetting to turn the light off and/or
turn-off the flash (the cat thought I was mad!), and so several similar shots
resulted in an obvious .gif presenting itself!
It's like a 1970's disco' floor
. . . "OOOOoooooo'Ifeellove-Ifeellove-Ifeellove-Ifeellove . . . Iyyyyy
Feeel Luuuurve . . . I FEEL Luuurve, Luuurve, Luuurve Luuurve . . . I feel
luuurve . . . piew-piew-dugaduga-whang-whang piew-piew-dugaduga-whang-whang Phessheewwww! Cheers Donna; the ultimate bangin' choon - and a nice spacey soundtrack
for little rubber aliens!
And many thanks to 'Patti' in the US-of-A who sent me extra figures!
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