Could have been 'T is for Two - Scales!'! We're box-ticking the Tim Mee Space Patrol / Galaxy Lazer Team figures here today, still available from Jeff Imel under his Victory Buy / Timmee labels, and have been in production now, as several entities, since at least 2012, in various new colours, but we're looking at the originals here.
These are the original 54mm set, there is clearly more than a hint of Star Wars about them, but a bit of Star Trek too I feel, in the lady with the machine that goes ping! The more conventional pair of astronauts are lifting from MPC's set I suspect, with Darth Tim waving a sword about, and a Buck Roger's chap on the far left . . . box-ticking some serious box ticking!
There is a figure missing from the above, I know I have him in 54mm (there is another sample with all colours somewhere? But for now . . .
. . . we'll have to look at the five-inch/120mm version instead! Not Chewbacca, oh no . . . no, no, no, not Chewbacca at all, who's he, indeed! He even has The Hulk's ripped shorts and a pair of antennae, so you don't draw that conclusion! This also shows a third colour, a very 'spacey' gunmetal gray.
The Turtoise (or Tortle?) and one of the astronauts, you can see the MPC DNA as clear as day in the latter, but Crabster (or 'Lobbab') has no real or obvious influence I can think-of, besides a dozen 1950/60's pulp sci-fi novel covers!
This blog also covers them;
http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2012/07/return-of-galaxy-laser-team.html
This blog also covers them;
http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2012/07/return-of-galaxy-laser-team.html
. . . with a very interesting Argentinian side to the story involving Anteojito magazine, which I think has been mentioned here before, but isn't in the Tag list!
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10 days later and Woodsey's found some more!
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2023/10/tim-work.html
4 comments:
They are some large gobs of plastic.
They're fun Jan, no doubt!
H
Hi Hugh,
I don't think you are actually wrong about the Large figure you know! I think it is a Chewbacca knock off. In early concept art for the film, a version of Chewbacca had large eyes (but no antenna) and shorts (Google 'Early Chewbacca concept art and you'll see what I mean)
and that silver villainous type? when I caught sight of the thumbnail, my first thought about his helmet was not Darth Vader, it was Judge Dredd!
Yes Steve, or even the Rocketeer, but I have a feeling there was a B-movie type with that helmet AND the cape? In red & white if I recall correctly?
H
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