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Showing posts with label HG Toys Inc Space Ship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HG Toys Inc Space Ship. Show all posts

Monday, August 25, 2025

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.

Sunday, August 17, 2025

HG Toys No. 867 Space Wars Playset - Pt 3 Alien Space Cruiser - Copper and Silver SP

I first started covering these soft plastic HG Toys spaceships back in 2013, with a couple of updates over the years. I didn't know much about HG Toys and, at the time, didn't know whether these were bin toys or came in a set, or what? I can add a bit more to the story now.

The genesis for the design appeared in 1968 as part of a Project Sword comic strip showing up as a Pleasure Cruiser.



Tri-ang would release a hard plastic version as part of their Spacex line of toys back in 1969.

Later, Tri-ang would license Multiple Toymaker's to sell the Spacex line here in the States as the Golden Astronaut series.


Somewhere along the line, HG Toys would copy the basic design and produce it in soft plastic. They deleted the engine compartment and added a vertical stabilizer but it is essentially the same design. HG called it an 'Alien Space Cruiser' vs. Tri-ang's 'Pleasure Cruiser'. I'm aware of the inclusion of these spaceships in HG Toys playsets, but do not know if they were included in bags of toys or as bin toys, etc.

Ed

(L) Tri-ang (R) HG Toys

As for as I know, they made the ship in copper and silver SP.

Copper













Silver