Tim-Mee Toys (Modern) #67871 Galaxy Laser Team with Star Patrol - Pt 1 Packaging and Contents

Jeff Imel of VictoryBuy, Inc. of Scranton, PA has been producing re-makes of the old Processed Plastic/Tim-Mee brands of toys for years. They also reproduce BMC, some Marx, and I believe they have the tooling for some of the Classic Toy Soldiers CTS) U.S. and German tanks. You'll recall I posted the original Galaxy Laser team (from 1978), last year in July. In my mind, the biggest drawback to that original set was the vomit-inducing colors. Horrible! VictoryBuy does indeed sell repos using similar bright, awful colors, but they have finally done the series of figures justice by also producing this set in back and silver (as well they have a nice tan and olive green set). The sets all contain the same breakdown of pieces as follows:

Two forces (in our case black and silver) representing the Galaxy Laser Team and Star Patrol:

-24 50mm figures in 8 poses per force (total: 48 figures)

-2 'spaceships' (X-wing fighter jets)

-Sheet of peel-&-stick appliques'

For my purposes - and for no particular reason - I chose the black figures to represent the Galaxy Laser Team, while the silver figures are my Star Patrol. It doesn't matter really - your choice.

You can use the figures as opposing forces, or they can be an alliance fighting against bad guys from VitoryBuy's other colored sets. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed 

There's enough stickers for the spaceships and you'll have extras. 

There's also two flags (but no flagpoles in the set)

50 pieces total

My Galaxy Laser Team

My Star Patrol

A sample of some of their other color offerings (there are more)

Courtesy VictoryBuy

Courtesy VictoryBuy

Ja Ru 54mm Astronaut Pose #4 - Gray SP

This is the last of the four Ja Ru astronauts in this mini-series. I do believe we'll cover the Tim-Mee Toy Galaxy Laser Team next.

Soooo I'm sitting here looking at that big 'ol wrench and thinking, "Well if the Moon Buggy doesn't work, one good whack on its side with that wrench oughta do the trick!" 😄 Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Ja Ru 54mm Astronaut Pose #3 - Gray SP

Here's the third post in our Ja Ru astronaut mini-series. This one confuses me a bit. Mind you I haven't been researching astronaut suits - just taking photos of toys and posting them - but why does he have a walkie-talkie? Weren't the comm devices built into the suits?? Interesting. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Ja Ru 54mm Astronaut Pose #2 - Gray SP

Here's the second of four Ja Ru (China) astronaut poses. I like the grabber he's holding. I always called them 'the third hand' and I've got one out in The Cave! Anywho - Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Ja Ru 54mm Astronaut Pose #1 - Gray SP

I'm not through with spacemen quite yet! While I've photographed a lot, there are still a bunch more in the collection to do, enough to probably make this whole spaceman thing last until the end of the year!

Here's a quickie series highlighting astronauts made by the Chinese firm of Ja Ru. Ja Ru is quite prolific and makes toys for a wide variety of historical eras. I know they've made several really nice space related playsets, but as it turns out, I only have their four astronaut poses (I believe they only produced four). The figures are 54mm and a medium gray but with a hint of silver (maybe that's just a trick of my eyes). The bulky suits are more realistic than the older Marx and MPC astronaut figures. Back then they were modeling astronauts in the old jet fighter style suits of the '50s and '60s, but by the time of Apollo, the real life suits bulked-up considerably. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

All four Ja Ru astronaut poses that I'm aware of. Although, I believe their playsets had a Moon buggy which probably had a driver.