Toy-Ventures: Top 10 Coolest Space:1999 toys

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  Toy-Ventures counts down the top ten coolest toys from the legendary series Space:1999. Eagles, Stun Guns, Action figures and Moonbase Alpha itself in this blast from the future past. toyventures #space1999 #gerryanderson Check out our Space:1999 Playlist on Youtube       Issue #13 of Toy-Ventures Magazine will feature the never-before-seen plans for the […]

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[tay666]

That was great!
Wish I still had my Eagle 1 but that died a tragic death in the 70's.

[Dan2Dan]

Great watch!

As I wrote in another post here, I had the Eagle as a child. But pulling apart the figures at the waist to enable them to sit down was surprisingly difficult for me as a kid and I quickly broke 2 of them.

At the time, I was the only person I knew (elementary school in a suburb of Washington, DC) who liked Space: 1999. I was 6-7 years old when it aired originally on syndicated TV. I thought it had way too much "boring talking," just like the original Star Trek. But it was also somehow different and 'weird' and 'odd' in alluring, niche way. Even then, nearly 50 years ago now, because my father had really liked "2001: A Space Odyssey" and had a deluxe fold-out LP of the soundtrack with, like, 4 'pages' of photo stills from the film, despite never having seen the film myself at that time, I could tell that Space:1999 reused many of the space suits and other aspects from "2001," which appealed to me.

And of course, if I had seen that Space: 1999 squirt gun, I would've been all over that!

All of the above being said, about 15 years ago I re-watched the entire series and, as an American who loved Blake's 7 but not Doctor Who and who really only liked select episodes of the Original Star Trek, but who loved Star Wars 1977, my personal view is that the show was deeply flawed from the start in so many ways, beginning with the casting of over-the-hill married leads and a third lead who looked older than my grandfather at the time. Huh? And then so many episodes had, like, mysterious or ambiguous endings. Huh? I read many years later that the lead writer was an Irish poet. As an American of predominantly Irish heritage, I ask rhetorically a third time now: huh?

That said, Barbara Bain was apparently responsible for hiring the costume designer who made those awesome series 1 jumpsuits. So credit where credit is due. The series 2 Adidas off-the-rack uniforms looked so lame by comparison! And suddenly, in series 2, without explanation, the entire Alpha team was crammed into, like, "Das Boot" under the surface of the Moon. The writing was on the wall.