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My
second article at Flashbak this week remembered some fantastic die-cast metal
spaceship toys of the 1970s. In particular, I remember the Dinky “Starfleet.”
Here’s
a snippet and the url: (http://flashbak.com/join-the-dinky-starfleet-remembering-the-dinky-space-toys-of-the-1970s-362678/
)
“Although
Dinky Toys was in operation as early as 1935, I first learned of the company’s
toys in the mid-1970s, when I was a young fan of Star Trek (1966-1969) and
Space:
1999 (1975-1977). Older fans
probably knew the company -- a maker of high-quality die-cast metal cars and
vehicles -- for an earlier generation TV tie-ins to Thunderbirds (1964), Joe
90 (1967) or even The Prisoner (1967).
But
what interested me as a youngster was that the company had produced
highly-detailed, heavy-duty miniatures of my favorite TV spaceship in the pre-Star
Wars era.
For
example, Dinky Toys produced two versions of Space: 1999’s amazing
trademark, work-horse space craft, the Eagle. One was a transport, with a
removable passenger section in the middle. The other was an Eagle freighter,
which, with a magnet, could lower or lift barrels of radioactive waste.
From
Star
Trek, Dinky produced two great die-cast metal ships. The first was the Constitution Class Starship
Enterprise of Captain James Kirk. The
starship could fire small round projectiles from the saucer section. Also, a small shuttle craft could be dropped
from the bottom of the Starfleet vessel.
The
second Trek vehicle was the Klingon D7 battlecruiser. Like the
Enterprise, it could also fire small orange projectiles from its forward
section…”
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continue reading at
Flashbak.
