We've looked at the X-200 Space Ranger once or twice here at Small Scale world, so I'm actually going to concentrate on the space scout, which isn't obvious in either of the 1954 annuals, but despite appearing four times in the tag list here, is not covered that well on the blog, with one tag being the X-200 renumbered by Dimestore Dreams and the other mentions being single image posts or follow-ups to other things.
But first, I did look at the Premier sculpts (first post in this sequence) once before. I think it's one of these which has joined my fleet, possibly the other 5" Dart - version 6, to use Ed's nomenclature.
We looked at the Ranger in detail not that long ago, here, and in the strip Swift mutters of the enemy ships that "Those must be the secret X-200's", so he knew his toys! But then they were on the artist's desk!
And they are all septuagenarians now! To be in British 1954 annuals (printed at the end of 1953, for the Christmas market), they must have been born by Pyro, Thomas and Co., in the US, early 1953 at the latest?
2 comments:
I have a Kleeware X-100 Scout with a mount for a bicycle, the hole on the roof is for the clip to hole the scout while clamped on the handbars.
Ah . . . well that's fascinating, some of the X-200's have a rod for similar fixing but to a twin carpet-based whirligig I think, but I can imagine that, you could have one each side and 'aerobatic' them round the neighbourhood!
Thanks for that, anon'
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