HG Toys No. 877 Alien Attack Playset - Pt 4 (Final) - Diorama Pieces

Today wraps up two different series as we post the final installment of the Marx 45mm 1st Series GI's and then wrap up our look at HG Toys Alien Attack Playset.

Each new space set from HG Toys brought new figures, or spaceships, or diorama pieces and this one was no exception. HG included a nice vacu-form terrain piece (which unfortunately I do not have), as well as this cool mountain fortress / space port cardboard diorama.

Ed

The cardboard spaceship is removable as shown in the photos further below.

The diorama measures: 13.25" (33.65cm) W x 8" (20.32cm) D x 12" (30.48cm) H with rocket  7.125" (18.09cm) H w/o rocket

Rocket: 7.25" (18.41cm) H x 5.25" (13.33cm) wingspan

Sans spaceship

The figures show the relative size of the diorama

The spaceship can be folded to stand up on its own but I didn't want to mess with it

Diorama Set-ups

These photos were an attempt to show what the cardboard diorama would look like when paired with my diorama board. A little Photoshopping helped some, but the brighter cartoony colors of the HG pieces are a bit too much of a contrast with the more muted tones of the diorama board.

I do like this one the best. Is that comet dust? Snow? Whatever you want it to be.

HG Toys No. 877 Alien Attack Playset - Pt 3 Figures

I may have an update on HG Toys figures in the coming weeks as I've located some different poses for the 35mm Space Commandos. But for now, let's do a quick recap of the figures I already have and which have been covered in more detail recently.

Ed

25mm Aliens - LP (Lik Be)-provided

All six LP (Lik Be) poses

Ten figures included in playset

35mm Space Commandos

The three HG poses as shown on the box art

The eight Space Commando's included in the set

55mm Giant Robots

In this set there were three blue and three red robots. I only have one each.

HG Toys No. 877 Alien Attack Playset - Pt 2 Spaceships

These three different types of spaceships are carry-overs from the earlier 'Space Wars' playset and have been covered extensively just recently.

Ed

Space Station

Space Commando Ship

2 each in the set

Although silver colored ships are shown on the box art, HG could have used copper colored instead.

Alien Space Cruiser

2 each in the set

HG Toys 2021 Job Lot: Alien Attack Play Set Parts (1979)

I posted my first HG Toys spaceship (I call them 'shuttles') back in 2013. Six years later in 2019 the blog saw several posts of the two main styles of generic spaceships offered by HG Toys. Now today, I'm finally getting around to posting this job lot bought back in 2021! No surprise there huh? To the best of my knowledge, HG Toys made three space-themed playsets: 

"Alien Attack"

"Space Wars"

"Buck Rogers". 

The first two differ in that "Alien Attack" has a nice, printed diorama set piece while "Space Wars" appears to be a cheaper, watered down version. They both have the same flying saucer, same styles of spaceships, and same figures (although I haven't looked at the box covers in detail to try and guess a piece count for each set).  The "Buck Rogers" is a big departure from the other two because it is a licensed tie-in to the television series which ran from 1979-81 and has spaceships directly styled from the television series and may have character figures as well...

... which I would know if I could get off my a _ _, go in The Cave and photograph my MIB Buck Rogers playset!! But I digress. The lot consisted of the terrain piece/fortress w/removable rocket, 2 of what I refer to as Spaceship #1 (one in silver and one in copper), 2 55mm aliens, and 4 35mm astronauts. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Box art culled from fleaBay

I have one of these sets which hasn't been photographed yet.

HG made two non-Buck Rogers spaceships in basically two different colors: silver and copper (although I do have a dark copper and a lighter colored copper version of one of the ships).

Here's a photo taken in 2019 of my fleet as it was before buying the job lot in 2012.

2012 Job Lot

These would have come from the "Alien Attack" playset.

The rocket ship can be removed and used as a toy in-and-of itself.

With the rocket ship removed I'm reminded of Jabba the Hut's fortress on Tatooine!

13.25" (33.65cm) W x 8" (20.32cm) D x 7.125" (18.09cm) H

The ships and figures included in my job lot.