Lido 35mm Spacemen: Lido 35mm Cereal Premium Spaceman 'XIBT' Alien with Staff - Red HP

An Apology and An Update

For the past several weeks I've been referring to Lido's Satellite Man series in two sizes: 54mm and 35mm

WRONG! The larger sized figures are NOT 54mm but rather 50mm as reflected in the Toy Soldier HQ website

Don't ask me what was going on inside my noggin' when I started referring to them as 54mm but it's time to correct my error. I went through all previous posts on the Satellite Man figures, corrected the error and notated the corrections.

The pic of the cereal box showing the names of the various figures bears repeating as we end our look at the 35mm poses and segue into the 50mm series. Tomorrow or the next day I'll start covering the larger 50mm figures. They really do require separate posts as it appears the two size ranges were sculpted separately, but I'll get into that later. 

Anywho, here's today's alien, called 'XIBT' by the fellows at Kellogg's. I don't yet have the larger 50mm figure for this pose. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Lido 35mm Spacemen: 'THGX' Alien in Gas Mask Eyes Right - Blue HP

Here's a pose that is - quite frankly - rather 'MEH'. This gas mask wearing alien just standing there at attention. I s'pose you could use him as a sentry to a secure area or maybe if you had a hundred of these, a parade formation. In any case - Enjoy! Opa Fritz

We'll start covering the larger sized 50mm figures in a couple/few days, but here's another comparison shot of the larger and smaller figures produced by Lido

Lido 35mm Spacemen: 'SHZN' Bird Beak Alien with Ray Gun - Red HP

We've got just two more Lido 35mm figures to go folks - hang in there! BTW, does this figure remind you of Toucan Sam (from Froot Loops cereal)? Enjoy! Opa FRitz

 

Lido 35mm Spacemen: 'GRBL' Bird Beak Alien Pointing - Green HP

It's interesting in that a couple of the aliens Lido designed had these odd 'bird beaks'. Was there a trend in early '50s Sci-Fi of bird-like aliens (not the Hawkmen from Flash Gordon - they were just humans with wings)? I don't recall seeing anything else like that in '50s/'60s toy spacemen/alien design. Just a random thought. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

50mm and 35mm