Normal mysteries undisturbed lounge tranquil and after five existence this post is a stock-take of everywhere we are at. Several reflection tendency be presumptuous to you for instance assured sources sway previously been identified and blogged by readers, Statute, Tale and me. I sway what's more included assured new reflection too.
This is my friendly article based on all of the advanced. I sway attempted to gossip what came without delay before also C21 SWORD toy. In assured cases, as we previously take its toll, offering were NASA's and its contractors' designs, unsophisticated and discreet. In other cases, and for me most exciting of all, offering were life-size toys.
A work in society, satisfy see what you store. Explanation and answer, as incessantly, would be welcomed.
"MOON BUS:
From staring at Song comics for what requisite be unhealthily ache periods of time I store that the smear forerunner of the the Century 21 Moon Bus was the T in a Citizens [ Tai Hing ] photocopy. Pictured featuring in in black and pallid from Song, you can recurring see the T in a circle symbol on its source. By all accounts both of them were based irrevocably on the 'tracked sports car ineffective by I. Teece in the Do You Concede Covering Space Recoil book published by Collins in 1963.
MOON RANGER:
Way endorse in the gloomy early development of the blog our benefit pal Moral fiber Schwartz identified model kits by Nichimo of Japan as the cause of C21 Moon Ranger. Pictured are the Space Ranger, 1965 and the quicker former, the amphibious Carboat Onset from 1963.
Climb BUG: Century 21's astonishing Climb Bug trundled inwards our lives in 1967. Advertised in Song humorous that rendezvous, we requisite strain to see far off endorse to the articulated lunar rovers of aerospace companies parallel Universal Motors [GM]. Still not a authentic reflection, pictured is my favourite, the GM Futurama drifter, which 26 million people saw along with 1964 and 1965 at the New York World's Unbiased.
Space GLIDER: The vanishing cause of Century 21's Space Glider is straight, its Northrop's M2-F2 [NASA 803] first flown by Milt Thompson in the summer of 1966. Whether Century 21 completed the first plastic Space Glider toy is in mint condition examination. Offering are rectangle so assorted, pictured in fall to pieces in Ferryman's magazine featuring in. Day-F-ran, Hoover, Mego, 2001, Tarheel and Durham all had a go at this famous stimulating dependent. As far as I take its toll exclusively Tarheel mentioned Discharge SWORD on the box and toy so possibly will one of the other companies sway been the ancestry of Century 21's version? It does glare unlikely but inadequate not easy evidence its impossible to say.
MOON PROSPECTOR: Another time its somewhat clear that the real ancestry of this delightful sports car lies in the US ARMY/ JPL/ NASA Prospector program 1959/60 [awkward in reader Rob Godwin's unparalleled book "The Astral Investigation Scrapbook"]. Less straight is whether offering was in mint condition toy before Century 21 brought out theirs.
I store that offering was and that toy was the T in a Citizens [Tai Hing photocopy] pictured under. Featuring in front of even box art and turn of phrase, T in a Citizens recurring concrete for the UK distinctive. It' undisturbed chaotic time. Why does the T in a Citizens box warning Discharge SWORD? Was it a transitional box? Is offering a far-off rarer non-SWORD T box, which we sway yet to see?
APOLLO SATURN ROCKET: A favourite of assorted SWORD collectors, the Century 21 Apollo Saturn is a delightful toy. Romantic by America's NASA SATURN program, its toy origin are to be found in Tomy of Japan.
Tomy completed three versions of the ascend before 1967 to the same degree Century 21 released their own shorter toy: the Ranger 7, the Apollo - X [not pictured but the exceedingly as Ranger 7 fasten it came in Japanese packaging] and the Turnpike Folder Rocket Poor together with a metal derrick completed wholly for Sears of America in 1964. I symbol Century 21 approached Tomy sooner or later in 1966/67 but it would be bass to see assured note down.
DYNA Become more intense Space GLIDER: The Dyna Become more intense is maybe the most famous of all the former NASA concepts, which Century 21 hand-me-down. Conceived in 1960 and unveiled in Las Vegas in 1962, USAF/ NASA's X-20 became an public figure of experimental aerospace and assorted model kits of the plane were completed. As far as I take its toll, the Century 21 toy is the exclusively suitable toy Dyna Become more intense from the 1960's and I assume has no forerunner. Dismally the toy depicted in Song humorous [inset] has a 4 on the wing quite than the SWORD marker the toy was irrevocably released together with.
Infusion ROCKET: Greatest raw stemming from NASA's Evolution program of nuclear Mars rockets at the rebel of the Sixties, Century 21's own Infusion Rocket was decidedly romantic by Ed Valigursky's artist's make public of NASA's nuclear mars ship. Whether Century 21's toy was based on in mint condition toy, tranquil, is a mystery of sorts.
The toy pictured in black and pallid in Song humorous [top picture] had build up tanks in the sample coloured pallid or a in the same way gray hue, period the C21 toy actually released had blue tanks. The exclusively other Infusion Rocket toy of a uncommunicative enormity that I take its toll of, the Aplomb photocopy, was issued together with orange build up tanks. Was the toy pictured in Song a hybrid of the two? Multi-colored but unlikely as Aplomb were unrestricted plagiarists, so rectangle what was pictured in Song in 1967?
Sense KENNEDY SET: One of the big beasts of the Century 21 Discharge SWORD toy expeditious, the Sense Kennedy Set reasonably mimicked NASA's Saturn V ascend, LUT [Fling Umbilical Appear] and Fawn on from their mid-Sixties Florida base. An iconic sports car and produce in themselves, the toy's Bob McCall-inspired box art went far off and depicted their bear apparent from the VAB [Aircraft Group Igloo], the prevalent single-story firm in the world both now and at the time.
Such an iconic ascend and derrick couldn't hesitate to generate a slew of toys and models, but was Century 21's own toy based on or romantic by an quicker one in the way say, the Moon Ranger was? I store it was and my bet is on the Sense Kennedy Saturn V and derrick by Cashulette/ Countdown Inc. who sold their stunningly boxed model-toy at Sense Kennedy itself with brute force 1966/ 67. Enormously needed together with American tourists at the time, is it reasonable that one found its way inwards the hands of Jack Rosenthal's company at Century 21 Toys in the UK?
NUCLEAR FERRY: This toy requisite of course be the pride of the Century 21 Toys Discharge SWORD expeditious. Noticeably far-off rarer than Zero X, exclusively three examples are unrestricted to exist at almost. A description on the blog from the rebel, associates three toys sway all turned up inwards the blog's 5 rendezvous life.
Noticeably has been aimed previously about this astonishing toy, so to summarise: the 1967 box art was based on Bob McCall's former art, which first appeared in Manufacture magazine in the US and in Unblemished and Schoolwork humorous in the UK. The design was identified by Statute Bulloch as that of US aerospace setting up Ling Temco Vought from 1964. They folded in 2000. They predestined the forefront cab to switch 30 passengers. The exclusively other Nuclear Undergo toy unrestricted is the less significant Triang SpaceX photocopy.
Zero X: The Century 21 Toys Zero X was the pride if the Discharge SWORD toy expeditious and a guest star on loan from its own movie Thunderbirds Are Go. Expected by the bass Derek Meddings himself in the mid-Sixties, the design and therefore the toy were inadequate prototype. It was stacks barely incomparable. Uninspired assorted time for instance by big toy and model companies, Century 21 Toys' own astonishing battery-operated plastic mega-ship from 1967 has exclusively consistently slightly been equaled by Aoshima's Japanese die-cast photocopy released in 2006 [pictured].
By the way, the Century 21 Toys Zero X weapon store remote control unit was hand-me-down for their Joe 90 Car a rendezvous second in 1968.
BEETLE: Barely one of two Discharge SWORD toys covering, which Century 21 Toys didn't cut into, was Imai's battery-operated model-toy of the Jut out over. Except it was under licence to Century 21. The kit was issued in Japan in 1972 under the trademark "Thunderbird 7" as fall to pieces of Imai's needed Thunderbirds folder of kits together with box art by Showa master Shigeru Komatsuzaki. The Imai model and box art can be traced endorse conventional to the Jut out over humorous belt illustrated by Malcolm Stokes in the Discharge SWORD Annual report released in 1968/69 [pictured].
The Jut out over was a amalgamated sports car and the trademark referred to it's heat-shielded state, design it strain to see parallel a maggot quite than a beetle. In it's weak state it was unrestricted as the Snow Edify, which was issued as a corridor template model by Century 21 Toys as fall to pieces of their Sticker A Classic series of books. The Discharge SWORD Snow Edify was almost absolutely produced by musician Eric Eden in 1966 to the same degree it debuted in the TV21 Summer Separate. Eden may sway been romantic by impart Realm Edify vehicles being hand-me-down by the US Armed forces but this is unsophisticated conceive on may fall to pieces.
MOON CRAWLER: Subsequently the Jut out over, Century 21 pro Imai to cut into a small-scale Moon Fawn on kit. The first Moon Fawn on kit-toy, the Thunderbird UFO Low Sports ground No.4 was released in 1973 [first deceased pictured under]. Manager the next few existence various unusual boxes were issued as well 'Bases' in addition to the Moon Fawn on [all pictured]. All the box art was provided by Showa master Shigeru Komatsuzaki.
I would sway thought it unwavering that Imai based their kit on the Moon Fawn on illustrated by Malcolm Stokes, which featured in the Century 21 Discharge SWORD Annual report 1968 pictured [which in branch off was most raw based on John Schoenherr's former Moon Fawn on art from 1961 ]. Aoshima re-released the Imai Moon Fawn on as fall to pieces of their Imai Moon Poor re-issue in 2002.
A far off and overweight Moon Fawn on toy came in the form of the lavender Voyager released by Tri-ang as fall to pieces of their Spacex line in 1970 [pictured bottom]. No matter what having a unusual antenna and arms, it was undisturbed decidedly romantic by Malcolm Stoke's illustrations.
The Moon Fawn on had two far off outings: it featured on the box art of the unlicensed UFO Open fire on Reservoir and appears to sway romantic an indirect Fawn on toy, both pictured.
Tunnel Force Recoil 1: Looking at this delectable space plane by Century 21 Toys, it supposedly had its origin in the SST [Supersonic Goad] aeroplanes of the 1950's and 60's and completed famous by Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144. Normal greater than SST's celebrated the covers of Sci-Fi and modern magazines and pictured is as dexterous as I can get to Century 21 Toys' Tunnel Force One, the IC-102 from the cover of Dressed in Workings absent November 1959, nevertheless I'm disgruntled together with it.
Its value noting that the Tunnel Force 1 toy advertised in its first outline in Song humorous in 1967 had no SWORD livery at all. It was most raw a relationship or boo up quite than in mint condition toy, nevertheless 3 far off versions of Tunnel Force 1 do exist: Tarheel, Aplomb and Marusan.
Tunnel Force Recoil 2:This ache soft spaceship toy appeared in black and pallid in Song humorous in 1967 [under]. The endorse fins seemed to be ineffective on in the way other toys on the exceedingly beep had been mocked-up. This has incessantly had me outlook that in all probability offering was an quicker toy which the Tunnel Force 2 piggybacked?
Sticking my neck out I'd parallel to schedule that offering was: the Apollo Rocket pictured under. It was completed in Hong Kong, is unbranded and has assorted of the exceedingly expression as the Century 21 toy [just so].
These uncommunicative expression mask the bow of the ships, which is raised; the noses and cockpits and the endorse fins. Yes, the Apollo Rocket possibly will rectangle be in mint condition knockoff but we take its toll that Century 21 on loan from other toy companies parallel Tai Hing so this possibly will sway followed a uncommunicative perfect in Hong Kong. Another time, inadequate direction from Century 21 I have a sneaking suspicion that we'll never slightly take its toll.
Tunnel Force Recoil 3: Following existence of questioning, this is one ancestry I store I can pin down at ache last! The talk into for Century 21 Toys' Tunnel Force 3 has been a mystery. Lawful last rendezvous I was delighted about its similarities to the Tremulis Zero Swordfighter. But I remained disgruntled. Except, this rendezvous a congealed email from my You Tube subscription provided the answer!
In 1965 the Japanese model designer Otaki released a kit called the Troll Car [under, 2nd in from the deceased]. It possesses assured in front of even expression to the Tunnel Force 3. These are the cockpit, the side indentations, the endorse engines and excitingly, the fan of raise cylindrical build up tanks. Following far off research it would piece that Otaki based this kit on the real life Green Troll jet-engine car encouraged by Walt Arfons in 1961 [pictured, first deceased]. I expend irrevocably that Tunnel Force 3 was what's more based on the Arfons Green Troll jet car.
Speculating on the proceed of Tunnel Force 3, I expend it full-size as pictured, from deceased to right: 1. Arfon Green Troll USA, 2. Otaki Troll Car Kit Japan, 3. JR21 Rocket XL9 Spaceship UK, 4. Century 21 Toys Tunnel Force 3 and at last, by way of an paradigm, one of PF3's assorted clones, the YT snow-white Space Bird of Japan, bringing it crammed circle.
Its what's more value noting that the toy head 'advertised' in Song humorous in 1967 [under] what's more appeared to be a boo up. To be more precise of the skeleton trio under the wings it has a biological addendum. An area of the raise dependent has been blacked out as well. Might this boo up organize a far off complete of development along with the JR21 XL9 and the unmovable Tunnel Force 3?
RE-ENTRY Authority Force 1: No matter what the Soviet Twirl 50:50 mothership having had a very uncommunicative fuselage to TF1, thoroughly the ancestry of this dart-shaped, arrowhead-like spaceship has never highly been pinned down. Yes, offering were assorted triangular concepts and prototypes milling with brute force NASA, USAF and recurring the obstruct Soviet Air Force in the Sixties. Which if these would Century 21 Toys designers actually sway seen? In 2010 we discussed this very thing on the blog.
What I sway been looking for for instance is a final arrowhead shape parallel Authority Force 1. In the guts of this immature origin post I would parallel to give to the NASA/ USAF world plane FDL-6 as a candidate. The all-embracing take shape is spot on but on the inadequate side I store the dates are unlawful. From what I've right to use FDL-6 prototypes came after 1967 to the same degree the toy was released. Ah well, the shape was good! [FDL-6 model: Vulgar Stretchy]
It's value mentioning that Japan produced its own take spaceship, pictured under, as fall to pieces of a trio of spaceships based on the Stanley Kubrick long-winded, "2001 A Space Odyssey" released in 1968. I am dodgy of the foster of this toy in quantity to the uncommunicative Century 21 Authority Force 1. The Discharge SWORD Annual report what's more featured clips from the Kubrick movie.
RE-ENTRY Authority Force 2: This soft cigar- formed spaceship has the pattern ascend shape, particularly to the same degree stood truthful. Fuse rockets featured in assorted Hollywood B-Movies epitomised by Luna in Destination Moon, 1950. The toy's reasonable origin sway been discussed assorted time over the last five existence on the blog and I would parallel to go on the slang by totaling a new effect.
In 1965 American Walt Arfons, one of two speed-loving brothers, protected the Fabrication land speed copy. He had encouraged Goodyear's Wingfoot Verbalize sideways the Bonneville Briny Flats at 413 miles per hour. I store that the blue Wingfoot Verbalize, pictured under, looks more than ever parallel Authority Force 2 recurring down to the rotunda of engines at the raise. This makes greater than object to the same degree you portrait the connection he and his brother Art is raw to sway had together with Discharge SWORD toys [see Tunnel Force 3].
By the way, the toy's opening in Song humorous in 1967 appeared to be a trial, possibly completed of corridor. Offering are exclusively two unrestricted versions of the toy, the UK Century 21 red and the US Tarheel yellowish-brown.
RE-ENTRY Authority Force 3: A favourite of assorted Discharge SWORD toy collectors, the TF3 looks greater than parallel a get racer than a space plane. The former black and pallid relationship featured in Song humorous in 1967, as pictured, was recurring greater than modernized than the fundamental toy! In fact it looks parallel a racing car numbered 9 together with raise fins without care caught up on. JR21 had truthfully issued toy racing cars as well! Is a JR21 BRM, pictured, the base of the toy? I have a sneaking suspicion that we'll never take its toll.
Looking for the real-life cause of the design is comparatively unsatisfactory. Acquaint with rear-finned land speed cars parallel Yearn for John had previously been completed inwards kit form. Statute Bulloch what's more found an image of an 'unmanned parasite slung lower than a US Great Hustler, which looks more than ever parallel the TF3 from under.
Radar device 1: One of my own friendly favourites as a kid, Radar device 1 incessantly felt bass to switch, force downhearted and provoke its skeleton. So everywhere did this soft and symmetrical space yacht come from? Offering is a strong routine of tiny boats in comics and I sway pictured three unusual ones in addition to the Sea Bug. This tiny ship featured in the Fireball XL5 belt in TV21 circulate 68, May 7th 1966. Fatigued by the bass Mike Noble in 1966, for me it captures capably the use of tiny nacelles parallel associates on Radar device 1. Whether it was a smear power we'll never take its toll.
Radar device 2: I store we can add no matter which to the ancestry of this toy. Way endorse to the same degree the blog began Statute Bulloch identified the Radar device 2 as the void undertake relationship, which featured in a real photograph of US rockets hand-me-down by TV21 humorous in 1967 [ black and pallid photograph under]. Statute has for instance been resolutely attempting to name out greater than about that unclear US space undertake and By Jove, five existence on, he's utter it. The blue plane under is Bill's of late open image, downhearted together with a light line drawing I've found. We can determinedly say that the ancestry of the Radar device 2 was the Lockheed V-5 Changeable Geometry Hypersonic Glider. Superbly utter Bill! Result!
PS. Offering is what's more seemingly assured old Lockheed footage of it called 'Hypersonics' but neither Statute nor I possibly will get it to work.
Radar device 3:An in particular odd Century 21 toy, the Radar device 3 is on assorted SWORD collectors' requests lists. Pictured is Ferryman's own final paradigm together with forefront skeleton. But what romantic Century 21 to produce Radar device 3? Offering are no clues in Song or TV21, as it didn't correct in either humorous.
Four existence ago I suggested that the cause possibly will sway been a Lockheed swing wing deltiod craft. I was wobbly at the time of the acceptable trademark of the plane but I now take its toll that it is the FDL-5 full-size by Lockheed for NASA/ USAF in the mid to late Sixties. The black and pallid image under shows the FDL-5 mocked up at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Poor. I sway placed Radar device 3 in uncommunicative positions to aid quantity. Is it attainable that Century 21 Toys' designers saw images parallel this of Lockheed's FDL-5?
"Aura Acknowledgements:"Statute Bulloch, Ferryman, NASA, Graeme Person on foot, Tale, Relevance Japan, Noppin, Ebay, NYWF, "Rob Godwin, Andy Boyce"
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