Beyond Tomorrow, Beyond Recycled

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I love stuff like this, in the mid seventies Sears marketed this "Beyond Tomorrow Lunar Space Station" play set with three handpainted "alien" figures that were clearly supposed to be Kirk, Spock and Uhura. What's more weird is this seems to be originally an MPC playset based on the Gerry Anderson Puppet series "Fireball XL5" and the listing even goes as far as to call it an XL5. Crazy stuff like this is what makes toy collecting fun.

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[vulcan2074]

Thats a Fantastic looking set
Sammy

[jwyblejr]

I'm guessing someone at Sears figured that some kids would combine the two and did it for them.

[thunderbolt]

I had that set!!!

[ScottA]

How cool.

[SpaceCrawler]

I had these as a kid, as well. Maybe in other colors however. But they also came with a rocket that came apart in stages and had a spring loaded tip, like this one:



I have been looking for this rocket or this entire set for some time. If anyone has any to sell, let me know.

Sean

[toys2cool]

huge set, very cool

[starsky]

i had the space men as a kid but couldnt figure out where they were from!

[palitoy]

Those background spacemen got around, I had them as a kid too but in a different set.