Beyond Tomorrow Again

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Ever since I posted this back in 2010, I have been keeping my eyes out for one at Toy Shows. At last weekend's Mego Meet it walked right up to me as somebody I know was selling it and wanted my opinion. I didn't get to buy it but I did take a few better shots of it.


I'm not particularly surprised that the box is a single colour line art affair seeing as it was mainly a Sears catalog piece.
I really wanted to put the whole thing together and take some detailed photos but it's more complicated than I realized and would have taken me a long time, so i settled for a few random shots.


Here is the thing most interesting to me, the small bootleg Star Trek crew this set came with, it's pretty brash copyright infringement, even by 1975 standards. I really want these little guys.



The rest of this set are the generic astronauts that are in everybody's junk drawer, I bought a set with these guys in the 1980s and I'm pretty sure I still see them from time to time.For more Fashion Mockery and 70's toy love visit us at Plaid Stallions.com


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[Actorman]

I wonder if the "XL5" scooter and space car were an intentional rip-off of Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5 or just a coincidence. Very cool set, though. There is something very charming about "generic" stuff like this. It's rare to see a toy today that isn't some sort of licensed property, movie/video game tie-in or crazy cross-branded stuff like Disney's Muppet Star Wars Angry Birds Legos.

[palitoy]

I wonder if the "XL5" scooter and space car were an intentional rip-off of Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5 or just a coincidence. Very cool set, though. There is something very charming about "generic" stuff like this. It's rare to see a toy today that isn't some sort of licensed property, movie/video game tie-in or crazy cross-branded stuff like Disney's Muppet Star Wars Angry Birds Legos.

They were reused molds from the MPC Fireball XL5 Space City set. Here's a link that explains it better than I could.

http://2warpstoneptune.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/beyond-tomorrow-lunar-space-station-and-the-story-of-multiple-toymakers/

[pmwasson]

Its funny the crew has blue painted accessories. Its seems to be a direct ripoff of the Mego figures.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^And they've got pirate boots like that erroneous Filmation promo shot, where an artist misinterpreted their flared short pants.

Chris

[thunderbolt]

I had that set!!!

[Godzilla]

That is cool!