M is for Micro Moon-Men and Many Marauding Martian Machines

Just a quickie, as they are definitely at the infant-toy end of the spectrum, but fun nevertheless!

We've looked at the mini wargame sets from Silvercorn now, but they also did an infant series, although when I say 'series' there's no evidence for others sets, but with three in the 'realisteic' line, I'm imagining maybe a dino' set and farm or zoo attached to this infant-toy line?

Two useful bits; nice space tank, which would paint-up well as a fire-tower for Micro-Machine Hoth figures? And a useful six-wheeled jobbie which again is just big enough to be a one-man battle-taxi in even 28mm role play - Banana Splits 'v' the Nottingham Mafia's Imperium?

The two figural's; the robot will go well with those looked at recently from SCS Direct, while the human is a chunky infant toy of limited use, unless you need an extremely overweight astronaut for some game or diorama!

I've also picked these up, mostly marked 'Hong Kong' so having some age, but equally factory mint, ex-warehouse or shop stock. Probably from a gum-ball, capsule-machine supplier (they came from the US), but equally likely to turn-up in other 'pocket-money' packagings, elsewere?

Three saucer/space station types and four ships - one of which looks like a jet-propelled, demented R2D2, with shock-absorber legs, I've seen him somewhere as a Japanese 'glico' with an added radar on his head - probably the original sculpt?

My favorite is the crane, which bears a passing resemblance to an old carrier crane from a 1:1200th scale model kit. The cracker/gum-ball/glico type fighter came in with a recent mixed lot from Chris Smith or Peter Evans (posts pending).