Item sold mercifully quickly so I'm not going to bother posting a link, and all pix are as posted with no editing. Way out of my price range but we can ogle & feel good for the buyer. Was a "Buy It Now" listing which is kind of a shame -- Would have enjoyed watching the fireworks of collectors vying for the privilege of adding this to their collections. Production date cited as 1976 and I bet there's much much more of this stuff out there. Just doesn't get the propz Marx sets generated.
Looks like a mixture of updated Lunar Space Station forms with "Fireball XL5" pieces re-purposed without explanation. Odd note is that the set features both the standard MPC Hong Kong 2.25" spacemen and the somewhat larger Ring Hand figures.
George was a lucky kid. By 1976 I was 9 and we were riding the tail-end of the G.I. Joe early 70s "Adventure Team" craze in our household. Never saw anything along these lines, and if choosing wish-gifts in the JC Penny catalogue would have been focused squarely on Adventure Team accessories to go with our G.I. Joe figures.
Somebody's stoked to be bringing that home!
Clear plastic dome pieces would be fitted onto the yellow sections and stacked using the connector pylons to form the Lunar Space Station, then populated by the spaceman figures -- Who I guess had to wear their space suits inside? Huh ... Blue vehicle hauls a rocket launcher which may have been functional as per the loose spring seen below.
Standard spaceman figures all have the correct MPC markings on their base, suggesting that Multiple Toymakers were indeed manufacturing them through the 1970s.
Bummer, and by my eyes the only sour note in the lot. Easily replaced, or just get creative with the sticky putty for when posing him in action.
Multiple Toymakers script at top right on both side panels shown.
Where are the three painted "Star Trek" figures. Ring hand not original to this set.
ReplyDeleteNo clue! wasn't my item, just felt like posting the pix of it for others to ponder. I'd walk many a crooked mile to score those painted Star Trek figures. Thanks for looking in!!
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