This is a follow-up to a rather bitty Sci-Fipost from January, but I said at the time there were more ET's in the post, while there were also developments
on the Remco diver front - they are
also spacemen!
Increasingly, it's hard to know with some
things whether what you're buying is all original, in matters Corgi-Dinky-Lesney - for instance - there
is a lot of reproduction stuff around, especially the accessories, while
Tri-Ang Battle Space has repro' parts for all the little jigets, and some of
the larger pieces; track-side and wagon-underside triggers, missiles etc . . . sometimes
they are obvious (white-metal castings), sometimes not so, poured resin . . . painted . . . while 3D printing is only adding to the confusion/plethora of stuff offered.
One chap on eBay has an enterprising line
in replacement figures for the Remco 3D
board game 'Lost in Space', which
uses the spear-gun figure from the Voyage
to the Bottom of the Sea sets (even further apart than my suggested one of 20,000 Leagues!), I think they are 3D printed but they don't have the tell-tale striations
of deposit/extrusion printers so they may be the sintered liquid type; equally
they could be cold-cast resin?
But they are fun, and given what the original
games go for, I grabbed a set purely to tick the box, as far as four new figures
goes! This is the least close to the originals, being semi-transparent, but
also my favourite! The blue and yellow are a bit off from the Remco playing pieces too. Lost
in Space with an underwater dart-gun!
Meanwhile, the other ET figures had
arrived, so I took a few shots, I thought I'd only taken the comparison shots
below, so took another line-up last night, consequently there are two good
shots! These are the LJN ones, and a total of six is the whole of series 1, six
more (series 2) are obviously harder to find!
Clearly different tranches have lead to
marked differences in decoration, although I couldn't tell you which came
first, the rule-of-thumb is usually they start better and get poorer, which
would probably make the left-hand one the earlier issue? He's reading an ABC!
