Had these things in & out of a shopping cart and on or off "Watch" lists since like, April while learning what they are. What I know is that they were made in Mexico from the original Marx moulds with no markings, cast in a softer army man type plastic in day-glow hues rather than the hard plastic metallic colors of their original 1950s issuing. No clue on when my set was cast; The packaging looks 1990s as the seller claimed. Not only are there scifi Flash Gordon ships but a sharp looking delta winged Cold War era fighter. The USAF emblems on the space ships are a nice touch -- Didn't know our Flyboys had any of these! Impressive.
And I don't hables the Espanole so I'm actually not sure if "Poli-Man" is the name of the company who allegedly made them or just the name of the set as packaged.
Had to have em! Am unsure what the value of an original casting of the forms would have been but gave up on an auction for one matching the yellow ship when it hit fifty bucks. This set cost a little more than half of that and has all four of the ships plus the jet. Score. And as for finding examples of those metallic plastic originals, to quote Chico Marx yet again "We'll find time for both."
Will bust them open in another exciting video! and see how many wheels match up.
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