A is for Airgam Apollo Astro-Spacemen!

I'll stick to toys! That's OK, they're pretending they never visit the Blog! These would go very well with the Lik Be astronaut-spacemen, having similar suits and the same mostly unarmed, but with a few ray-guns vibe.

 

There seem to be about eight sculpts of which I only have the six, these four with the lab-tech' type (far right), who I have seen in a set I've downloaded somewhere, but I can't find it, and three more conventional figures, who may look familiar?

 

Because, as can be seen from the one on the left here, they were copied by Bonux, who's French soap-powder premium figures we looked at here. Which means there may be a full ten, but the Apollo sets (Apollo I, II and III) always have the same six?

 

I saved these in 2012, and I don't know if mine are earlier or later than these metallic plastic ones, but I suspect the former, with no good reason! Although I'd almost prefer the red and blue figures! They'll come, eventually, it's all mass-produced polymer!

There seem to be several of these around at the moment, I's II's and III's, with most of them equally 'mint' so one suspects they found a warehouse full, like with the Pryo Atomic Disintegrator knock-offs, which flooded the second-hand market a few years ago? It also means some of the BIN's are a little overoptimistic! The 'I' has less 'space city' pieces, the 'III' has two rocket-ships.

 

I'm not sure Airgam is actually the company name, Airgam Boys were a Playmobil licence (or rip-off, we're talking the Franco years here?) and are so common, searching for these can be a problem, however, it you search for Airgam Apollo, you'll find all you need. But it raises the question that Airgam, per se, may be a branding for someone else?