And to be honest, Giodi should have Kinder's
slot above as they made them, and they don't only seem to have supplied Kinder,
but other people as well, while my 'third source' is Cose Progetti Promozionali, who may be designers (albeit copyists) as well as importers?
This is a very small sample of the Bruder mini space vehicles, and there
are quite a few more, but this is an overview which will call on the past finds
of Moonbase
Central too! As far as we know Bruder
were first with these as part of a wider range of otherwise civil vehicles in a
distinctive red-yellow-orange-blue-green scheme.
Woodsy found this set in Rosita branding from Spain, which seems to contain Bruder product in different colours; Bruder state on their website
that the confectionery trade were good customers for their small toys, so they
clearly did a fair-bit of contract manufacturing.
And here's a Hans Postler set (last image) in standard Bruder
colours
And there's more here
While these are the Giodi for Kinder copies,
again, not sure it's all of them, but you can see (with the lander) how reverse
colour versions are available. Although when I say copies, they are all new vehicle
designs, but based on and aping the Bruder
colours.
Flight-line; Bruder and two Giodi/Kinder, folding/swing-wings, the Bruder are about 50% bigger by mass, and
probably wouldn't fit in Kinder eggs,
or at least some of the parts wouldn't?
Giodi clone; the paper slip states Cose Progetti Promozionali (Modena, Italy - 'Promotional project
things') and they are straight-out copies, slightly smaller still, you can see a
few differences between the Giodi and
Cose (bottom right), but they are the same design, and made in China (possibly the Tennison Trading in the links above?) so
imports which other capsule providers may have handled.
Interestingly some are copies of Giodi (swing-wing sample), some are
copies of the Bruder models - the
Lander for instance.
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