This was going to be a box-ticker for the
two new sets, as I thought I'd posted one years ago, but I can't
find the first on the Blog, so maybe I didn't! Or it's just not tagged right?
Still a box ticker though, as Ed's done them in greater detail, but I'll put
the link at the end so you at least scroll through these first!
A bit of a Christmas present to myself,
as they weren't cheap, but you do go to these shows hoping to occasionally find
something more 'grail' and less 'run-of-the-mill', so when I saw them I pretty
much had to have them, and when I suggested a reasonable discount for the pair
the seller was happy to go with it and they came home with me!
Originally 2000-Yen (about 8-quid/$10 in today's money, so back in the day - bloody expensive!), the 'Monument Valley' vignette has a hideous carbon-footprint and what is
probably one of the better of the vehicles in these sets, but when I say 'better', most of them are considerably more naff than the cheapest LB rip-off cake decoration ones,
mostly they really are a bit tacky, in the unloved 'rush-job' meaning of the word! The Space Tank (below) is probably the best of a pretty rum-bunch!
Ed's sets have different contents, so while
there seem to be three backdrops (desert, temperate/tropical and frozen), there are more than four or five (?) contents, each being
sewn/glued-in, in batches I would imagine, with the contents/vehicle type/figures
being changed as stock of one particular piece ran out?
The 'Green Planet' vehicle is even more
basic, and like the other sets comes with scaled-down space figures
(usually three, but I've seen four and two) from Marx's larger-scale ranges, and there a lot of variety between them with
some hard 'styrene, some soft 'ethylene polymer, and white, silver/gunmetal or
orange plastic, painted or unpainted.
This is an old evilBay image of the best
vehicle I've seen so far (which may be the missing set of mine? It's definitely
the 'ice planet' backdrop of my first set, but I can't remember my vehicle . .
. might be the Matt Mason 'walker'?), a real space-tank, which looks to be
based on the Marx unnumbered 'poly' tank chassis, Moonbase
looked at another in depth, a while ago, from Arto in Finland, so they got
around a bit!
Anyway, Ed Burg looked at more of them awhile ago, with more close-ups, set variations, box-types and comparisons
with the larger scale figures, so head over there as well. When I find the
other one, we'll have a proper look at the three for a better box-tick!
You probably already know this, (but if not), the vehicles, other than the "space tank" are crude scale-downs of larger battery-operated space toys by Marx. And the sets were overpriced to begin with (perhaps the justification for this was that they were "coloured by artists"...)
ReplyDeleteYes Andy, Ed explains which-is-which after that last jump, and I would say I pretty much missed all that B/O stuff, but as you ca see in the next post, I now have a pretty wacky Bulldozer!
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