This
week at Flashbak I remembered a great toy from 1980: The Alpha Probe, from
Fisher Price.
Here’s
a snippet and the url (http://flashbak.com/imagination-makes-it-fly-fisher-prices-alpha-probe-1980-360794/
)
“As
you can see from the illustrations accompanying this post, the Alpha Probe is a
space shuttle-like craft with opening and closing cargo bay doors, and a space
tether by which to connect the action figure astronaut. The cockpit seats slide out so that an action
figure can pilot the ship.
The
copy for the Alpha Probe advertisement notes that this “sleek new spaceship comes fully equipped with special things like three
unique electronic buttons.” Those
buttons -- located on one wing -- make such as sounds as “roaring” take-off, “danger
alert,” and space signals.
Inside
the Alpha Probe cargo bay one can find a rocket recon sled, and as the ads
suggested, “imagination makes” this
toy “fly.”
In
addition to the astronaut, Fisher Price manufactured several Adventure People
action figures to have adventures alongside the astronaut. There were, for instance, two green-skinned
beings of a translucent, semi-cyborg-ish nature.
Please
continue reading at
Flashbak.
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