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SPACE EXPLORER SET - LINEMAR - JAPANA boxed set of two Linemar space cars, the astronaut Space Explorer S-3 and the robot version also marked Space Explorer S-3.
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SPACE GOLD STAR VEHICLEWITH RETRACTABLE WINGS, M IN DIAMOND LOGO
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SPACE GUARD MS-61 - MASUDAYABox variation.
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SPACE GUARD PILOT - ASAKUSAPlastic battery op vehicle with bum and go action. Billy Blastoff knock off. One of a range of similar vehicles: Space TV Pilot, Space Guard Pilot, Space Radar Pilot. Large gun.
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SPACE JET VEHICLE X-001 - BANADITin battery op vehicle. Smoke.
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SPACE KIDDY, SEE SAW ROBOT - YONEZAWATin wind up see saw toy with two robots.
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SPACE MOTORCYCLE - MAKER?Plastic friction plastic scooter style vehicle with grey plastic driver.
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SPACE PACER - NOMURA - JAPANESE BOX VERSIONEight legged battery op plastic space vehicle. Claw grabbers at front. Pilot at front behind clear screen. Radar dish.
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SPACE PATHFINDER - MASUDAYASee Lunar Exploration. Tin battery op vehicle with tracks. "Radicon Photoelectric Operation System".
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SPACE PATROL - HORIKAWATin battery op vehicle wiith policeman driver and large double barrel gun. 9" long mostly tin litho toy c. late 1950s by Horikawa, Japan. Marked "Space Patrol". Pilot is seated behind double barrel gun which has plastic cover. Also has detailed control panel with TV screen showing space scene. Works and travels around with bump-and-go action. As gun unit moves, lights and produces a firing sound.
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SPACE PATROL - LINEMAR - JAPANMetallic blue lithographed tinplate friction space car with large square robot pilot. Coiled antenna. Marked Space Explorer S-3. Imitation tracks at rear. This space car was also sold in a boxed set with the astronaut version of the toy.
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SPACE PATROL FRICTION POWERED - MASUDAYABlue lithographed in friction Tada style vehicle with an astronaut under clear plastic dome. Large single rear fin. NASA logo. 7 ins This is one of a range of vehicles based on this design. Friction action with a space siren noise. Two plastic light covers, one on either side. These covers have been seen in red and blue: they are evidently designed for the battery op versions of this pressing but here are decorative.

The Masudaya number suggests a date in the late 1960s.

Masudaya number 3521
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SPACE PATROL MOTORBIKE X5 - USAGAYATin friction motorbike with orange vinyl astronaut.
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SPACE PATROL SUPER CYCLE B-557 - BANDAITin friction motorcycle with spark. Circa 1950's. Advances as the antenna turns. Motorbike. Green plastic rider. Compass on handlebars. The box depicts a rider wearing a clear cylindrical helmet that is missing from this example. B-557 See also the red B-617 Flying Spaceman version.
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SPACE PATROL WALKIE TALKIE - RANDALL, ENGLANDPlastic and string toy.
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SPACE PATROL Z-206 - GREEK VERSION - ANANAIDESTin hovercraft style battery op vehicle, bump and go action. Red plastic windows. Chrome silver plastic antenna. Very similar to the Japanese FLASH SPACE PATROL Z-206 by TPS on which it is based. Box? Greece
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SPACE PIONEER - MASUDAYA 1963Tin battery op space ship. Bump and go mystery action. "Super Sonic". It is featured in the 1963 Masudaya catalog.
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SPACE PORT - ARCHERPlanetary Cruiser Control. Tin space port with plastic Pyro hard plastic rocket. A FLASH GORDON LITHO VERSION EXISTS 1953
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SPACE RACE CAR - YANOMANTin friction S-10 space car with spiral candy stripe litho cylinders on either side. Possible Usagaya connection? S10

Image courtesy Smith House Auctions
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SPACE RADAR CAR 5 - CHINATin wind up space car with walking action. Orange plastic disk on top with radar antenna.
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SPACE RADAR PILOT - ASAKUSAPlastic battery op vehicle with bum and go action. Billy Blastoff knock off. One of a range of similar vehicles: Space TV Pilot, Space Guard Pilot, Space Radar Pilot. TV camera.
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SPACE RADAR SCOUT PIONEER - MASUDAYATin friction spaceship with twin rotating plastic antennas built into the body. Yellow tin pilot under a clear dome. Tada style.
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SPACE RANGER - MARXPlastic battery op remote control orbiting spaceship. Tethered flying action.
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SPACE ROBOT CAR - YonezawaTin battery op car Circa 1955. Robby style driver pilots space car as lights under dome spin, gun turret pans from side to side as the gun tips move in and out as a firing sound is emitted.

Image courtesy Smith House Auctions / Robert Lesser collection
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SPACE ROCKET CAR X - MASUDAYARed tin friction space car with litho details. The friction car has a non-fall action: if the front drops over a surface a wheel positioned at right angles turns it back. " Neither Slipping Nor Tumbling Off" Box also has a four leaf clover logo in addition to the Masudaya logo.

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SPACE ROCKET PATROL CAR - COURTLANDTin friction space car with long red plastic canopy. "Long running friction motor". USA
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SPACE SCOOTER - MASUDAYATin and vinyl battery op space scooter with boy astronaut. Bump and go mystery action. Later released by Amico. Fireball XL-5 similarity.
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SPACE SCOUT S-17 - RED DOME - YONEZAWATin battery op vehicle. Bump and go action. Astronaut with gun. Red dome version shown. White dome is more common.
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SPACE SCOUT S-17 - WHITE DOME - YANOMAN 1963Tin battery op vehicle. Bump and go action. Astronaut with gun. More common white dome version shown. First sighted May Co California, Toy Treasures newspaper supplement, Nov. 24, 1963

There is evidently a connection between Yanoman and Yonezawa. The body of the S-17 is the same pressing as that found on the Rendezvous 7 8.
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SPACE SCOUT X-5 - SUZUKI AND EDWARDSTin friction space vehicle. Transparent green plastic canopy with pilot head. S&E Japan. Cragstan logo on box.
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SPACE SERIES ELEGANT MINIATURES - LINEMARBoxed set of six diecast space vehicles from the Linemar Elegant Miniatures series. 1960s?
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SPACE SHIP EXPRESS - IRWINPlastic friction space ship. Sparks. USA Color variations.
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SPACE SHIP KX 2000 - SLJ FranceLarge plastic battery op remote control space ship with central dome. Yellow top red base. French 1960s
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SPACE SHIP SS-18 S&ESuzuki and Edwards tin friction space car. A simple friction powered lithographed tinplate vehicle. Litho engine detailing. Clear green plastic canopy over a pilot's head.

Two box versions: one marked S&E, the other has an NA logo.
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SPACE SHIP WITH SPINNING BALL COCKPIT - YANOMANYM logo. Tin friction space ship with spinning ball cockpit. The detailing looks like the production version of the S-15 prototype. Serial No 5513
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SPACE SHIP X-200 - YANOMANTin battery op. Bump abd go action. Variation of the S-17 vehicle.
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SPACE SHIP X-8 SCOUTING - RED VERSION - TADATin battery powered vehicle with bump and go action, flashing lights and rotatin antenna. This version is predominantly blue. Another version exists which is predominantly red. X 8
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SPACE SHIP XY-07 - ATCTin friction space helicopter. Tin lithographed spaceship with spaceman under a plastic screen. Tin rotor spins.
This toy was also released as the XZ-7 Space Ship, though this version is more space like with porthole litho. Asahi Japan.
The box art depicts a slightly different piece - the rotor has been replaced by an antenna and the serial number is different.

The XZ-7 appears in the ATC Asahi catalog for 1968
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Space Ship XZ-7 - ATCTin friction space helicopter. Tin lithographed spaceship with pilot under a plastic screen. Tin rotor spins.
This toy was also released as the XY-07 Space Ship. Asahi Japan. The XZ-7 has a soldier for a pilot and the toy lacks the same space feel.

Again, the box art depicts a slightly different piece - the rotor has been replaced by an antenna and the serial number absent.

The XZ-7 appears in the ATC Asahi catalog for 1968
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SPACE SHOOTING RANGE = AUTOMATIC TOY COMPANY USATinplate wind up shooting range. Spaceship targets with score values. Automatic Toy Company. Working. Beautiful lithography to toy. When wound, tin space ships move across shooting range and mounted gun shoots balls at them. Box is marked 'No. 372 Space Shooting Range'

A slightly different litho version of this toy was released by Codeg in UK.
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SPACE SIGHT SEEING BUS - MASUDAYATin friction vehicle with twin fins and dome at front. Astronaut under clear dome. Typo on toy: SPACE SIGHT SEEIG BUS
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SPACE SLED - REMCO, USAA re-release of Remco's original Gerry Anderson's Supercar design on the back of the Land of the Giants serial. Plastic battery op space ship with wings. Pilot under canopy. White body with clear blue plastic dome. Cams give different movement patterns.
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SPACE TARGETTinplate target with space scene.
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SPACE TARGET TIDDLY WINKS - PETER PAN, ENGLANDBright space artwork.
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SPACE TRIP - CAR DETAILTwo different litho cars.
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SPACE TV PILOT - ASAKUSAPlastic battery op vehicle with bum and go action. Billy Blastoff knock off. One of a range of similar vehicles: Space TV Pilot, Space Guard Pilot, Space Radar Pilot. Rotating antenna.
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SPACE TV UNIT - NOMURAAn earlier and rarer variation of the Mobile Space TV Unit. This has a green astronaut and a different body shape: note the much deeper body pressing. It carries the serial number A196.

Possibly circa 1955. Complete with its own antenna trailer. The box artwork matches the toy, exactly. It reads:
Battery Powered
Space T.V. Unit
Actions
Mystery Action
Moving TV Screen
Rotating Antenna
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SPACE VEHICLE - MAKER?Plastic battery op space vehicle with color dome. Bump and go action. Hong Kong?
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SPACE VEHICLE - RUSSIABasic tin space vehicle.
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SPACEMOBILE AND PILOT - YOSHIYATin friction with astronaut astride. Sparking. KO
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