Unkown Astronauts

8 Responses to Unkown Astronauts

1. Ed Connell says:

   September 7, 2014 at 12:13 AM

   They maybe MPC, I had a moon base set I got for one Christmas from my Grandmother, it wasn’t done by Marx, however it was so long ago I can’t remember for sure if those are the same figures.

   The guy with the hose appears to be one of them I remember, along with the one with the strange wire frame like weapon butt.

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2. Mark says:

   September 7, 2014 at 6:13 AM

   Probably MPC copies,Toy Soldier HQ has a photo of a bagged set of Payton downsized copies and a website called Moonbase Central has nice photos of MPC copies in various sizes
   Mark

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3. Greg Liska says:

   September 7, 2014 at 10:33 AM

   Definitely not MPC, but surely MPC ”inspired”. They’ve taken MPC poses and switched parts around, adding things held in the hands of one pose to another or varied a pose just a bit like moving a leg forward. Gulliver did stuff like that with Atlantic and Airfix poses. What’s the size of the figures? Any markings on the base at all?

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4. Mark says:

   September 7, 2014 at 12:26 PM

   possibly made little changes to avoid copyright infringements ?

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5. Ed Connell says:

   September 7, 2014 at 1:53 PM

   Yes it is definitely possible a host of other companies could have copied the MPC originals, from what we know today sculptors would sometimes make changes to the molds themselves, and they would be marketed under a different brand name.

   Perhaps they had this produced by some company in SA, or even HK.

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6. Ed Connell says:

   September 7, 2014 at 2:35 PM

   I checked a few sites after Mark’s comment as well. Greg is correct they aren’t the MPC figures I had either, not exactly anyway. The guy with the wire gun is posed differently, as well as the hose is slightly different on the other.

   Plus after checking the MPC figures, I remember the camera guy that is filming as well, which the above set does not have. I thought my set was called Moon base, but I could find no such listing under MPC for that set, they did have a space station set.

   Which looks about what I had, I only remember the 4 hollow like bubble buildings, I do not remember all the other stuff, but the figures, and I believe a play mat that looked like the moon’s surface.

   The Fireball set is huge compared to what I got, I didn’t get a rocket ship with mine, lol. I only got the 4 bubble buildings and the figures, along with a map, thats all I remember about the set. I was only 4-6 years old at the time, and that was about 50 years ago.

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7. Greg Liska says:

   September 7, 2014 at 3:29 PM

   There were at least 2 versions of the Fireball XL-5 set. The ‘deluxe’ version had a lot of stuff. The other just had the ship, character figures and about 7 astronauts. I longed for that big set, ended up with the little one. I did have a Marx Operation Moonbase set, though! 😀 They went together nicely. Man….now I’m going to be thinking about getting into astronauts for my collection. My poor bulimic wallet.

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8. Ed Connell says:

   September 7, 2014 at 5:41 PM

   Yeah I can imagine at how much they go for now. Good luck.

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