W is for What Might Have Been!

The future's bright, the futures white with orange highlights!

 

Original artwork for what was proposed as the next generation of Britains Starguards/Aliens, Star-Force/-Raiders/-System and their other 'Space' lines, within the Deetail range. I don't recognise the artist's signature, if anyone knows who he or she was, I'll add it to the post.

 

The Hexagonal 'turret' was to be a modular, plug-together construction system, like the hub-UFO's in the Swizzles Matlow candy-holder set, which would build up to ships, stations, or - as here - accessories on a set of vehicles of which this was to be the vanguard! There were both constructional/connecting tubes and plug-in weapons/equipments, proposed.

P is for Prototypes?

If TJF and his chattering, ventriloquist's glove, monkey-puppet (see earlier post today) had done a bit of searching instead of picking the low-hanging fruit . . . so low they ended up with their faces in the dirt - they might have found these on a British patent application site;

Registered by Hing Fat in October 1995, and given the design number GB2051216 (now expired), this and the following three figures seem to have been the start of a planned sci-fi range of space warriors and robot/android figures, probably of a 3-to-4½-inch action figure type, but with no obvious points of articulation, they may well have been intended as smaller solids?

From the left; GB2051213, GB2051214 and GB2051215 (I think?), there's an obvious provision for separate weapons, and the possibility of a removable helmet on '15, I would imagine if they were going to be 54/60mm solids that the planned material would have been a PVC-type soft polymer? Has anyone ever seen these are a retail item/commercial prospect?

Both images are false-coloured by me from B&W originals.

I tried to find the original page (to give you the link) and couldn't! Google is really shit now, it's so commercially-oriented, it's almost impossible to find useful stuff, even if you know it was there years ago! But I did fond this page . . . with another figure from this 'set', but registered in 1994! I think the page is actually dead, as it takes ages to load?

Five minutes later and I found a few more, but I'll let you find them from the link! It looks like a set of Power Ranger knock-off's (added to the tag list!) registered in 1994, renewed in 1999 and struck out in 2007, and the set of space figures I'd already found from the following-year? The pages get faster once you've opened a few too!

Note the definite ring hands on what I now suspect were going to be 65/70mm vinyls?

T is for Toy Fair 2020 Reports - Warcradle Studios - Bill & Ted's EXCELLENT! Adventure!

Or; W is for Way! No Way!

This game was also on show at Toy fair 2020, but was a mock-up; ready for production, it was hoping for orders before the print-run rolls (games are published, toys are manufactured, it's one of those industry 'things'), but it has some lovely figures!

Warcradle Studio's  present Bill & Ted's Riff in Time, which is a very similar mechanism to the game we just looked at (previous post) from Tactic (15 Minutes to Self Destruct), in that Bill and Ted have to rush round the board closing-down the little clock/dials to halt the riff in time and get everything back to normal!

Unlike the unfortunate crew of the SS Nebula, who only had each other to help as a quadripartite, our two hero's here have various people from History (or 'time') to help them in their quest, they also have as long as it takes (I think), or certainly longer than the quarter-of-an-hour over at Tactic!

Figures include the European artillery corporal who caused all those problems around the turn of the nineteenth century, a Mongol war-lord with a bit of a temper, Beethoven (with an electronic piano-violin) and others.

Cards and dice, interactive board, Bill & Ted, what's not to like? I hope it goes into production!