M is for Marx Space - Space Patrol

Some of the stuff which did belong in the box, the Space Patrol figures, and basically a set of generics who could also fatten out sets with the Tom Corbett or Rex Mars figures at their centre. Indeed, they have, pretty much, the same uniforms as the Rex Mars, but make useful 'ground crew' for the Corbett's.

 

Family Photo', I'm missing the two girls, one standing one crawling, and a seated figure (for the 'office furniture'!), and again these seem to be home-painted, and not brilliantly, with the black, particularly, splashed all over the place!

 

One of mine is a heat-shrinkage victim, but as it just makes him look like he's bringing in a still hovering machine, or, waving it away before it hits him, or lands on his noggin, . . . it's quite a cool mistake!

 

I got two each of most (one each of the Aliens) so it would seem to have been a full set, and the missing figures, including a pair of the seated chap, really are missing!

 

The Moonbase station, I think you can mount the 'doughnut' station on the top of this three-part contraption, which looks more like how the V2 ballistic missiles engines were nestled within the rocket's outer casing, than anything else!

 

Fuel storage tanks, I'm missing the pipework for the yellow-green version, but the silver fits, which is useful for photography as without it, the whole moulding rocks like a banana! But, as you can see, it still has its stickers, so is the better example, and the fuels; Oxygen, Hydrogen and Florine, are the same as those labelled on the sides of the 'space tank'er!

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?