Orange Suit Crew Update: Spacemen Painted In Homage to the X-Wing Pilot Costume

Have finally realized that the orange space suit fixation is a result of the "Star Wars" X-Wing pilot costume design. Later picked up on by NASA for their Space Shuttle program to modernize the look of their mission specialists. 

 

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My Marx Toys "Cape Kennedy Astronaut" 1969 Johnny Apollo Action Figure, Reclaimed from the Sands of Time

 

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Let's hear it for Grandmother Wilson! And if anyone has the missing oxygen hoses to spare from their collection I'd be game to work something out.

Vintage Kinder Toy Lunar Module Set with Astronaut Figure and Telemetry Vehicle, 1980s?

 

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Would enjoy learning more about the collection if anybody has some insight.

Vintage 1950s Archer Spacemen Vs. 1990s Glencoe Models Re-Issues: How To Tell Them Apart

 

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Landed "new to me" vintage Lido Futureman and Archer Spaceman figures & utilized the opportunity to demonstrate two of the methods which collectors can use to identify vintage Archer figures from 1990s re-issues by Glencoe Models. The video shows the differences on four example poses.

Long/short: Look for the size of the "PAT.PEND." script on the back of a given figure's weapon. Vintage Archer figures will have noticeably larger lettering than Glencoe re-issues. If the PAT.PEND. looks small and blocky the chances are it is a Glencoe re-issue. 

The other method for the pose which does not have a weapon is by evaluating the size of the C inside of a copyright mark found on the upper middle back of figures. Vintage Archer made figures will have a C which more or less fills the circle, Glencoe re-issues will have a smaller C placed in the middle of the circle.