Premier Products 3" (76mm) Flash Gordon / Supersonic Aces Spacemen The Adventure Ends

Our Intrepid Premier spacemen meet up with the commander of the alien ship who explains their mission is a peaceful one. The astronauts return to their spaceship and record their discovery of another race in the star system.

Ya know, I get a hair up my backside and tell myself I want to do a photo story. YET, when I get started it only takes a few photos and I'm already tired of the project. Let's face it, Ernest Hemingway or Mark Twain I ain't! That, and I'm just too impatient to sit down, come up a story and cobble together a kind of storyboard using the toys I have.

It's all good though, and a whole new series of spacemen will start either tomorrow or the next day. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed 

Premier Products 3" (76mm) Flash Gordon / Supersonic Aces Spacemen The Adventure Continues

Our Premier astronaut, while exploring what he thought was an abandoned spaceship, encounters a watchdog robot. Although our astronaut has his personal cloaking device activated, the robot can still detect him. He then calls for backup and is joined by two of his fellow crewmembers. 

Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed 

Premier Products 3" (76mm) Flash Gordon / Supersonic Aces Spacemen Adventures

After completing the small series on Premier's Flash Gordon / Supersonic Aces figures, I thought to do a few quickie shots using them and some Glencoe figures. The scenario is: a Premier spaceman boards an alien ship. He activates his personal cloaking device, and a large robot appears. Not fooled by the cloaking, the robot can still detect a life form. Unknown to our intrepid spaceman, the robot is not programmed to do harm or to kill, but rather to scare...

..Good 'nuff! 😄

Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

Premier Products 3" (76mm) Flash Gordon / Supersonic Aces Spacemen - Pt 13 - Pose 4 Metallic Green HP

This is the last post featuring the 12-part photo essays for the Premier Spaceman group. I'll have a couple of additional photos to post in the coming days and then we'll start another spaceman series! Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed 

As an interesting side note, the carded set of planes offered by Premier was also sold under the 'Supersonic Aces' label

(photo courtesy of Dan Jespersin (Meta/fb)

Premier Products 3" (76mm) Flash Gordon / Supersonic Aces Spacemen - Pt 12 Flash Gordon 5in Spaceship Silver HP with Pose 3 Spaceman

Premier sold these figures in sets which sometimes included one of their now iconic spaceships, specifically the 5" narrow-hulled ship I called the 'Dart' when posting these way back in 2013. Premier had designed the ships with 'pads' on either side of the hull, just over the outboard engines flanking the fuselage. Those 'pads' were meant to allow the figures to stand upright - although you still needed both hands to hold everything in place if you were pretending fly around space with these. During the past few days we've been looking at Pose 3 of these spacemen and it just so happens I have a silver 5" spaceship with a Pose 3 figure glued on to the pad, so I might as well show you what the two look like paired up. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed 

The foot pads can clearly be seen just over the outboard engines

When I bought this many years ago, the figure was already glued to the spaceship by a previous owner. Note, that when these were sold new, the two would have been separate pieces.

Premier Products 3" (76mm) Flash Gordon / Supersonic Aces Spacemen - Pt 11 - Pose 3 Red SP

Unlike yesterday's marbled, sort of red figure, today we have a proper red one, but this time in soft plastic. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed 

Premier Products 3" (76mm) Flash Gordon / Supersonic Aces Spacemen - Pt 10 - Pose 3 'Red' HP

I'm gonna call this guy 'red' even though he's a mix of colors. The plastic is clearly 'marbled', which happens when two or more colors of plastic beads get melted together and shot into the mold. He too has a chipped nose like the figure posted yesterday. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed