Scored these from ToySoldierHQ (not just a reference site, it's an active online store which functions via email & it works) expecting to have landed a batch of reduced size ~25mm (1/64) LP Toys style spacemen as found in the delightful Blue Shield Apollo Capsule Party Favor cake decoration sets. And was startled to find they were instead ~30mm LP made spacemen in the same size as their Golden Astronaut figures.
Here's a page at the Triang Spacex Golden Astronaut Toys site detailing LP Toys' astronaut figures.
Not sure what the story is on them, all marked LP on their base undersides. They appear to have significant playwear and I seriously doubt they were Golden Astronauts scrubbed clean of their chrome layer.
Comparisons with the Blue Shield size copies. One thing that I noticed while doing the pix is that of all the Blue Shield size copies I've amassed there are only the four poses demonstrated above in orange and white.
LPs be the darker shaded figures, the Blue Shield size copies in white. Those obtained with some LP type miniature space vehicles a couple summers ago and of better quality than others in my stash.
Interesting re-sculp. His grenade (?) got bigger, he put on 25lbs and the space suit stylings are very different.
Pistol & Lunch Box Guy. Story behind that name is that I like to poke fun at serious stuff and from a kid's perspective the box he's carrying would be about the same size as a lunchbox. Maybe decorated with Star Trek, GI Joe or Six Million Dollar Man graphics. Will have to pursue that idea when painting one next.
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