"Military Sci-Fi Toys: Britains SPACE Toys (1981-1987)" Topic
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| Tango01 | 11 Dec 2021 4:48 p.m. PST |
"There are some toys that are mysterious even if you owned them. In this installment of Military Sci-Fi Toys, we will looking at a mysterious military science fiction toy that I had back in the 1980s after a trip to my grandparents. My family is from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I spent a great deal of time there as a kid. Back in the 1980s, there in Winrock Mall (which is now gone), there was very cool toy store called "Toys By Roy". This was the first place I saw STARCOM: the US Space Force, the Matchbox ROBOTECH toyline and some other exciting toys from Europe. One of them was this collection of small (1/32) astronauts-soldiers battling all manner of evil red helmeted aliens. There were entire armies of these space soldiers and their foes, it seemed to cover a good portion of the store, and my grandmother (the best in the world) bought me several packages of toy space soldiers. I still have them to this day. Recently, my daughter dug them out of a box of old toys at my Mom's' house in Houston, and memories came flooding back. After an hour of searching online, I came across the proper name of my long-lost military sci-fi toy soldiers: Britains SPACE, and the genesis of this blogpost…"
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Armand
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 Sgt Slag  | 12 Dec 2021 7:22 a.m. PST |
Wow! Impressive toy line. Thanks for sharing. Cheers! |
 20thmaine | 12 Dec 2021 12:02 p.m. PST |
Interesting article – thanks. I think I have one of the aliens in black spacesuits – and I have no idea how it came my way…. |
| Tango01 | 12 Dec 2021 3:23 p.m. PST |
A votre service mes amis….
Armand
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| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 12 Dec 2021 8:04 p.m. PST |
Thanks for finding this story. I have a few of these figures, and have never known what they are. |
| Tango01 | 13 Dec 2021 3:26 p.m. PST |
No mention my good friend… Armand |
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is getting a lot of mileage from repurposed pre-painted fantasy figs.