Friday, 13 November 2020

Spacex and Thunderbirds

 Triang Spacex Tractor T5 leaving TB2 pod

These pictures were taken for my friend Woodsy over at the Moonbase Central blog, to show how well Triang Spacex and Thunderbirds go together. Hardly surprising, for a number of Spacex toys were based on vehicles appearing in Thunderbirds comic strips and associated illustrations, such as the Tractor T-5 above (more here).

Matchbox TB2 with Triang Spacex Crickets and MEV-2
Triang Spacex Tractors leaving Matchbox TB2 pod
Matchbox TB2 with Triang Spacex Crickets and MEV-2 from above

The large TB 2 is by Matchbox from the 90s when Thunderbirds had a revival on TV. I later picked one up at a street market as a replacement of the JR21 version I had when young.

Scale-wise the Matchbox version is a perfect match for Spacex toys, which can now double as the kind of vehicles that TB 2 would carry in its pods. 

Matchbox also issued a number of smaller Thunderbirds toys in the 90s, which again show how nicely they fit with Spacex in the picture below.

Thunderbirds by Matchbox to the rescue of Spacex Nuclear Pulse

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