Sunday, January 21, 2024

My little big Tomcat... oops - sorry... Skystriker ! Go Joe !

Combat Jet Skystriker (XP-14F), Hasbro, 1983, Rep. of Ireland ? 

This toy is quite amazing, really. It is my "customized" Skystriker with both Action Force and GI JOE stickersheets (but originally it came with the AF box If I remember well). Now all I need is to find an USS Flag somewhere where I can land this aircraft 😄

Friday, January 19, 2024

Yes Commander !

Space Commander Robot, China, 1980's

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Albator - le jeu (the game)

Le Jeu d'Albator, Orli Jouet, Italy, 1979

In the series of board games based on my childhood heroes, this one is the French (but made in Italy ???) ORLI JOUET game of Albator. Why did the French continuesly put robots in their renderings of Matsumoto's Space Pirate is still a pending question. (it started in the French-drawn Albator comics in the Capitaine Fulgur magazines, but here too, you have robotic drawings on the tokens that suposedly should represent the Sylvidres / Mazones...)

It's lacking Matsumoto's original artwork, except for
 3 small images of the cartoon...
from the cartoon

Monday, January 15, 2024

They forgot one !

Scott Tracy, Tyco, 
China, 1994
Gordon Tracy, Tyco,
China, 1994




















Alan Tracy, Tyco,
China, 1994
Virgil Tracy, Tyco,
China, 1994


Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Supermarionation SUB - you go Troy Tempest !


Stingray, Charawheels, Bandai 2001, Japan 

Before the Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, this show helped get the puppeteers of Supermarionation team / Gerry Anderson up to level with the different techniques needed in their art. Read more about it here