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Thursday, March 23, 2023

T is for Tallon't

Hey, everyone's allowed a bad pun occasionally! Picked these up at a recent show (I haven't done show reports for the last couple - London's new 'combined' show this Saturday!), but I thought we could use a bit of novelty, rack-toy tat!

Space Toys! Technically Manurba I think, but seen here in their UK iteration of Tallon, they were also copied in Hong Kong at some point, or maybe the moulds ended-up there? I've never compared side-by-side to know definitively, but they are a perfect scale for the Airfix astronauts or Giant and copy spacemen and googlie-eyed aliens.
 
Image seen elsewhere the other day; I have a similar trio of loose ones which I thought I'd put on the Blog years ago, but I can't find them, so . . . well, these'll stay in the pack as I know the loose ones are there . . . and they weren't that cheap! I'm not sure if there were the three sculpts or maybe a selection of 5 or six, but when the loose ones turn-up we'll have another look.
 
I think the HK ones have blue canopies, but they may be clear, whereas all my W. Germany marked ones are yellow, equally the clones are pastel colours, while these are always primaries/secondaries. Bodies are soft polyethylene, canopies, hard polystyrene. Going back to the future as we'll never have cars like these, which ooze 1950's Pulp-styling!


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4 comments:

  1. Andy BMarch 24, 2023 at 10:34 AM

    Great to see these again, I had the German version in the 1960s, and as you say, they were the right size for Giant spacemen. I'm pretty sure there were 6 designs.

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  2. Hugh WalterMarch 24, 2023 at 4:31 PM

    Thanks Andy, I'm pretty sure one of my loose trio is different which would be four, and I may have a blue one? But you me, it's empirical or it's a question mark! They may be in the Dittmann booklet? H

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  3. AnonymousOctober 12, 2023 at 1:46 PM

    Hi Hugh!

    Hmm... the green one... :-D

    https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer

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  4. Hugh WalterOctober 12, 2023 at 11:14 PM

    Hahaha! Came later, but there's a definite resemblance Anon!

    H

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