UFO is for UAP - Introduction

For reasons known only to them, the US Government have stopped calling UFO's 'UFO's' (for Unidentified Flying Objects), and started calling them UAP's (for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), given the number of fuckwits who will struggle to spell the last two words of the definition (including me!), it's hardly a beneficial change, and people are already starting to use Aerial or Airborne for the middle letter, yet, due to the hegemony of US culture on the English-speaking press, it is a fact that everyone else is stepping into line behind the Pentagon, and UFO's are sliding into the history of 1950's hysteria, where some might argue they belong?!!

I picked this up a while ago, going cheap in Esdevium Games I think, as an end-of-line/discontinued item? It looks distorted, but that’s just the Reaper Miniatures packaging refracting the viewable image of the contents! It's quite a simple kit of six parts, I think there are three legs and a clear-yellow canopy, and is presumably a one-man UFO in 28mm, but could be a bigger machine in a smaller scale.

 

eBay I think? It's been in the folder for a while, seems to be a take-off, or partial take-off (styling) of the Marx Mystery Spaceship, we saw here, but this is a push-and-go friction toy with sparking action! Seems to be copied from the Zee Toys version: Space Saucer, or a re-boxing? And like Lincoln's clockwork, sparking Jeeps, both could be taken from a Japanese toy, or even produced under licence from someone like Yonezawa?

 

Seen before here, but there's not a lot you can do with a carded generic except photograph it against a different background from time to time! Fixed-key clockwork, I keep hoping to find a loose one going cheap, but may de-card this one day?

 

This was a recent modelling show piece, although when I say recent, I think maybe three or four years ago, and I can't remember if the picture was online, or eMailed, but I think it was a forthcoming show-dates thing, so the model may be older still? I thought it was fun though, lifting a cow for weird experiments and/or visceral mutilation!

 

Clearly other people think it's fun becuse there's quite a few around now, this one is credited to a Matt Smiriglio and issued by Running Press Mini Editions, usually to be found around the 10- or 12-quid mark, with free postage (or £20+ if you click on one of the US listings by accident!), and as well as lights, sounds and a magnetic cow-abductor, there is a booklet on the cow-abduction phenomena! It's Christmas soon, hint-hint!

 

While these band-wagon products are cow abduction table-lamps! The one on the left being £150-odd, and a generic? The right hand 'Area 51' piece can be found from between £50 and £180, and is claimed to be from a Wan Tai, in some ad's.

 

While the real reason for this post, is some forthcoming posts, on the three sets of UFO minis in the style of Polly Pocket or Mighty Max, which graced our cheapie stores and corner shops a few years ago, Three sets; Aliens, Robots and miscellaneous Sci-Fi 'stuff', each line had three toys, and most had more than one final branding/packaging type.

Here we see two carded cheap sets, two robot sets and one Alien set (green), and the three set-specific posts will be interspersed with the Jon Attwood donation-posts over the next few days.