Premier Products 3" (76mm) Flash Gordon / Supersonic Aces Spacemen - Pt 2 - Pose 1 Clear HP

Many years ago I had bought a job lot of three Premier Flash Gordon figures in clear HP. These are terrific little figures and I'm so glad I had the foresight (and money) to be able to get them. The clear plastic allows one to imagine they've turned on their cloaking device and unseen to anyone looking for them. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed 

TRAIN TIME: K-Line #K-1715B Hershey's Holiday Express Set (1997) - Pt 8 K-Line #K-615604 Hershey's Lighted Caboose

The engines and this caboose are the only things new to the set that ride on rails. The caboose matches the engines in its silver, brown, and tan Hershey's livery. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed 

Premier Products Co. of Brooklyn N.Y 3" (76mm) Flash Gordon / Supersonic Aces Spacemen - Pt 1

We start another mini-series today:  Premier Products Co. of Brooklyn N.Y Flash Gordon / Supersonic Aces Spacemen.

From April - August 2013, after exhaustive research, I published a series of posts of Premier Flash Gordon spaceships and the various knock-offs I had found over the years. On 13 Dec 2014, I made one lone post featuring several of the Premier spacemen in transparent plastic (plus one pose in a solid green color)...

...then I quit.

The line of spacemen were meant to be companion posts to the spaceship series, but only the one post was ever published. My collection was incomplete and I was (you guessed it) - distracted. However, over the years I have been busy acquiring some more examples and taking photos but wasn't yet prepared to publish for the blog. Welll, it's time to put these out there for you all to enjoy! Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

Per "BLAST OFF! Rockets, Robots, Ray Guns, and Rarities from The Golden Age of Space Toys!" by S. Mark Young, Steve Duin, and Mike Richardson (Dark Horse Comics, Inc. publisher, copyright 2001):

"Premier Products produced the only 1950's plastic Flash Gordon figure set"

and

"The figures were also repackaged as Supersonic Aces, which could stand on the wings of the five-inch rockets."

The book also shows a photo with the four figures we'll be zeroing in on in the next week.

Looking at the below photo from Toy Soldier HQ, you can see that there are four basic poses to the line. I don't know what's going on with that guy on the far right though. It's the same pose as the four next to him, but it appears as if the tooling/molds had been re-done because the details are off and he appears a bit shorter. (Spoiler alert: I do not have that example in my collection.)

Courtesy Toy Soldier HQ

These are the four poses we'll be covering over the next week or so with some color variations thrown in.

TRAIN TIME: K-Line #K-1715B Hershey's Holiday Express Set (1997) - Pt 7 K-Line #K-646709 Hershey's 1995 Season's Greetings Boxcar

The primary haulers for this set (the hopper and three boxcars), were all culled from prior year's stocks and used to make up this Christmas-themed train. Here's the 1995 Christmas season car. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

NOSCO Cracker Jack Prize 45mm Spaceman - Pose 2 Blue SP (1958)

This guy reminds me of Buzz Lightyear! Anywho, he's the second of two NOSCO toys made for Cracker Jack that I currently have in the collection. I've been looking on fleaBay for others, but they'll have to wait until I can scarf up some dinero to buy some more! Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed