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ACTION SPACE SHIP SX-802 - WOOLBRO - HONG KONGWhite plastic battery op flying saucer. Bump n go action, flashing lights, space sound. Orang plastic windows surround cetral peak with orange light at the top. Silver chrome door opens and disks shoot from it. 1980s
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AIRPORT SAUCER - MASUDAYATin battery operated flying saucer with litho depicting world tourist attractions. Airport scene with plastic airplane under clear plastic dome. Borderline space
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Apollo 562 Flying SaucerSmall tin friction saucer. West Germany. Reproduced
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APOLLO SPACE PATROL - ALPS"With satellite ship". Plastic battery op saucer. Bump and go action with a ring of square orange and green flashing "neon" lights. The satellite ship is the separate winged structure on top of the structure. Marked X-7 on decals either side of the dome.
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ASTRO 8 FLYING SAUCER - HAJI - MARUBISHIRed tin friction flying saucer. Astronaut under a shallow clear plastic dome. Single rear fin. A spinning disk produces sparks in a series of windows around the edge. The saucer and box have been seen with Haji and Marubishi logos. The concensus is that Haji were the manufacturers and Marubishi were the importer/distributor. See also the Flying 8 Saucer.
Two versions of the saucer are known: one has a blue vinyl pilot head on tin body and shoulders; the other has a red tin pilot head. A close look at the tin head indicates that there are slight color/litho variations to be found.
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AUTO LUNAR XP-121 - ESTRELA - BRAZILTin and plastic battery operated flying saucer. Bump and go action with lighted white color dome. White plastic dish antenna. Pilot under clear plastic canopy at front. Lithographed guns at front. 1970s A reworking of the SPACE SAUCER MERCURY M-164 by Yonezawa.
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AX1 SPACE SHIP - PIKOPlastic battery op bump and go saucer. Blue plastic base with yellow superstructure. Small clear dome with pilot. Large rectangular rotating antenna. Piko (an abbreviation of Pioneer Construction) was a state-owned enterprise in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) East Germany.
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BILLY'S FLYING SAUCER, Z-112 - MASUDAYATin friction saucer with astronaut astride. Another outing for the Z-101 saucer. Circular ridged saucer with extension at the rear and two blue tin fins. The spark window has disappeared. Billy is a neat idea, an astronaut riding a saucer surfboard style. He dramatically alters the scale of the saucer. Billy also appeared on a rocket. I'm not aware that a version without Billy was released; he's usually missing.
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CRAGSTAN FLYING SAUCER - BATTERY OPERATED SAUCER NGS - JAPANHere are the two box versions of this flying saucer by a little known company, NGS. Red and silver tinplate battery operated flying saucer. Bump and go action with a siren noise and a white plastic dome illuminated with a pattern of stars.
The saucer has an opening door that lifts to reveal a plastic astronaut. White and blue color variations of the plastic astronaut exist. The design is based on Nomura saucers and the magic dome is the one used on the X-80 Planet Explorer, but the angled wire antennas with plastic tips are the style used on Yoshiya saucers.
The saucer pressing is similar to the T28 Gigantor Saucer.
The two versions of this toy are:
Battery Operated Space Ship
Cragstan Flying Saucer
Since the toy has the wording Space Ship it is likely that this is the earlier version. Date?
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CRAGSTAN FLYING SAUCER - JET SMOKE VERSION - YOSHIYA - JAPANCRAGSTAN FLYING SAUCER - JET SMOKE VERSION - YOSHIYA - JAPAN
Red tinplate flying saucer. The saucer has a central dome with a slightly oriental looking tin astronaut pilot. Behind the astronaut is a spark window crescent shaped section. At the back are two metal exhaust pipes. The saucer has a bump and go action with space noise and flashing lights. It then stops and smoke emerges from the rear jets. Twin angled antennas tipped with plastic. This is similar to FLYING SAUCER WITH SPACE PILOT but lacking the coiled spring antenna. KO
Two box versions are known, one has the Jet Smoke wording and Cragstan logo, the other has this feature crossed out and does not have the Cragstan logo. The smoke version appears in the 1962 Cragstan Industries catalog.
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CRAGSTAN FRICTION FLYING SAUCER WITH ASTRONAUT Z-26 - YOSHIYATin lithographed friction crank action flying saucer. A boxy tin robot pilot sits under a clear plastic dome. The robot has Z-26 printed on his chest and this is also printed on the edge.
The Z-26 saucer is based on the X-15 pressing but with two rear tailfins and a rectangular slightly domed red plastic spark window behind the dome.
Produced in silver-grey and a rarer light blue version, both with central a red section moving to a point at the front. The light blue has been seen with red and blue fins.
The box carries the Cragstan distributor's logo. It appears in the 1965 Yoshiya catalog, along with the X-15 Space Commander Ship.
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CRAGSTAN MYSTERY ACTION SATELLITE - MASUDAYA"With astronaut in orbit." Predominantly green tin litho battery op saucer. Bump and go action and flashing lights. Pictures are projected onto a screen. Floating styrofoam astronaut in cup. The coil on the top holds the astronaut when at rest.
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CRAGSTAN MYSTERY ACTION SATELLITE X-107 - MASUDAYA"With astronaut in orbit." Predominantly brown tin litho battery op saucer. Bump and go action and flashing lights. Pictures are projected onto a screen. Floating styrofoam astronaut in cup. The coil on the top holds the astronaut when at rest.
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CRAGSTAN SATELLITE OUTER SPACE SURVEY SHIP X-07 - MASUDAYAMasudaya design. Teardrop shaped tin battery op saucer with non fall action and flashing lights. In this case the front of the spaceship is the pointed end, unlike the sister X-09 vehicle. This toy has a non-fall action: it senses the edge of a table and turns away. There is also a predominantly yellow version.
The same toy was sold as the more common X-07 Space Surveillant with just a change to the wording SURVEY on the front.
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FLYING SAUCER - JYESA - SPAINPlastic battery operated space ship. Gold top, blue plastic base. Central dome cockpit with pilot. Surrounded by a ring of 8 lights. Bump and go action with flashing lights. Marked JYE. Box?
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FLYING SAUCER - OMNIA - CZECHMarked Leatajuci Tanier UFO Saucer. Light blue tinplate flying saucer with a simple plastic pilot under a clear plastic central dome. Large rear fin with distinctive white plastic twin engine assembly attached to the top. Simple space graphics. Battery operated bump and go action. CSSR c1970
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FLYING SAUCER - RTC RAJA TOYS - INDIAYellow tin battery operated flying saucer has non-fall action, pins on bottom prevent it from falling off table. Runs along with lights shooting forward and backward through red lenses accompanied by a loud pling-pling sound. Indian copy of the Space Surveillant saucer by Masudaya. Simpler lithography. Date?
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FLYING SAUCER - YONEZAWALater plastic battery op saucer. Bump and go action. Green luster finish with pitted clear plastic dome. Lighted cockpit, space noise. Code No 37701 1970s
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FLYING SAUCER - YONEZAWAPlastic battery op flying saucer with bump and go action. Lighted cockpit. Space Noise. White plastic with elaborate gold plastic trim and twin tail fins. Central color dome. Box depicts blue version. No 37003
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FLYING SAUCER 7 - MARUBISHI - JAPANTinplate friction saucer with a large red single rear fin. Tin pilot under a shallow clear plastic dome. The saucer has copious litho details of fire and smoke coming out of the "exhaust pipes". Marked Flying 7 Saucer and MAR UBISHI (with space).
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FLYING SAUCER 8 - HAJI - JAPAN 1967Tin friction saucer with sparks. Two pilot heads under a shallow clear plastic dome. Bump and go action with sparks. Single tail fin. See also the Astro 8 saucer by Marubishi/Haji.
First sighted in 1967, though saucer was still on sale in the 1971 Haji catalog.
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FLYING SAUCER BANK - IMAKITALitho'd tin money bank. Rotating globe in the centre.
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FLYING SAUCER KOSMICKE VOZIDLO - ITES - CZECHFlat oval orlozenge shaped space vehicle. Light wheel at front. Large antenna, flashing lights, sound. Bump and go action. Slight box variations: boxes marked IGLA (not IGRA) or KOH-I-NOOR. Shown in Ites catalog.
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FLYING SAUCER WITH SPACE PATROL X-326 - MASUDAYATin friction flying saucer with spinner prop disk. Circular ridged saucer with and two tin fins. Z-101 style.
Image courtesy of Smith House Auctions.
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FLYING SAUCER WITH SPACE PILOT - YOSHIYA - JAPANTin battery op saucer with bump and go action with space noise and flashing lights. The box art depicts a blue space background with a cratered moon at the bottom right. The distintive feature of this saucer is the large revolving spiral spring. Twin angled wire antennas tipped with plastic. Cragstan logo. Appeared in the 1960 Sears Christmas catalog:
"Flying Saucer. With its antenna revolving, motors screeching, saucer runs forward until it hits obstacle - then reverses. Pilot moves. 7 1/2 inch diameter. Steel. From Japan. Shipping weight 1 lb. 8 oz.
49 N 4223 - Order 2 "D" batteries at left.......$2.79"
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FLYING SAUCER WITH SPACE PILOT 3 - YOSHIYA JAPANWhite and blue battery operated flying saucer with red trim. This is a saucer which combines the shape and actions of the Flying Saucer with Space Pilot (spinning spiral antenna) with the colors of the Sky Patrol saucer. The box remains the same of the former while the toy adopts the later color scheme. The wording SPACE PILOT 3 is rather simply printed on the front of the saucer and a USAF star on the back. Date c1965
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FLYING SAUCER X-3 - MasudayaTin friction saucer. Box. X3 MT
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FLYING SAUCER X-3 - MASUDAYAUnusual tin friction saucer with tailfins. Vinyl pilot head behind windscreen. Red plastic light at front, sparking action.
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FLYING SAUCER X-3000 - MASUDAYA - JAPANTin friction saucer. Silver circular flying saucer with an extension to the rear with lithographed window detailing. Two red metal fins. Clear plastic central dome containing four unusual wheel structures. Z-101 shape. Box?
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FLYING SAUCER X-37 - BANDAIMilitary colors. Tin friction saucer with central fan.
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FLYING SAUCER X-7 - Raja Toy Company RTC - IndiaLithographed tinplate battery operated flying saucer with astronaut pilot under a clear plastic dome . Bump and go action with flashing lights. Distinctive tall red vinyl pilot with tin arms. This is a copy of the Masudaya original.
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FLYING SAUCER XX7 - HONG KONGYellow plastic battery operated flying saucer with bump and go action and flashing lights.The cockpit with red astronaut is built into the side of a central plastic cone. This cone is studded with red and green plastic ovals. Large blue rear plastic fin. Paper decals Flying Sauce XX7. (missing antenna)
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FLYING SAUCER Z-101 - MASUDAYAProbably one of the earliest MT saucers. It certainly has the features that seem to develop in the later toys. It's an early friction saucer with sparking action. There's a hole in the top for the sparking mechanism. The Z-101 molds appear to have been used for French and English versions of the saucer nad for Japanese versions such as the X-326 an Z-112. Circular ridged saucer with extension at the rear and two tin fins.
Two versions of this toy have been identified: light blue and dark blue. The upper and lower shells on the light blue version (lower right) are crimped together with a lipped edge around the circumference of the saucer. The top shell of the dark blue version overlaps the bottom shell and are held together with tabs.
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FLYING SAUCER Z-106 - MASUDAYATin friction saucer with litho details of pilot and passenger. Two side fins and a raised front wheel. MT. Carries a Cragstan logo on the underside. This saucer has the same pressing as the V100 Space Patrol with Suctorial Missile. This has been dated to 1954 when it was advertised in the Australian Courier Mail newspaper dated 8th December 1954.
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Flying Space Saucer - AoshinTin battery op Circa 1950's. Advances with mystery action and a blinking light on the robot gunner's head. Beautifully litho'd saucer with planets and rockets. Large spring loaded gun on top with independent firing buttons. Shoots two wooden missiles with soft rubber tips. ASC
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FORBIDDEN PLANET SPACE SHIP - CHILDS AND SMITH, ENGLANDFlying saucer toy. Only known licensed toy from the original film. Donut saucer orbits around a central column. Came with plastic casualty in stretcher. England.
Made by Childs & Smith of Warwickshire. This little known Company trading under the "Nulli Secundus" logo produced a helicopter that flies around on a central pole. The flying saucer is a simple adapation of the helicopter. The flying saucer itself is an anodised gold doughnut with a propellor fitted inside. It sits on the end of a long tubular arm which in turn pivots on a central pole. The operating circle has a diameter of about eight feet and the height and direction of the torus can be fine tuned, allowing for delicate manoeuvres.
The flying saucer comes complete with a little plastic figure on a stretcher. A hook can be added to the saucer, and the patient can be rescued.
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FRICTION SPACE BOAT MF 878 - CHINAChinese friction flying saucer with pilot under central dome. Two pistons, each under a clear plastic cover, one either side of the dome. There should be an antenna. Featured in Boogaerts book but rarely seen. Three tail fins. Similar to the S.S. AP FLYING SAUCER which also has pistons. MF-878 Boat is the translation of ship, as in space ship. MF878
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FRIENDSHIP NO 7 SAUCER - MASUDAYATin battery op borderline saucer based on non-fall rocket body. Astronaut circles on wire. See Space Surver X-61
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GE-279 ROCKET - TECHNOFIXTin friction rocket saucer. W Germany Original name. "Fliegende Untertasse" (german for : Flying Saucer)
by Technofix company / Germany
Catalog Number 279 listed in an original catalog in 1955 but is not listed in 1959. Slightly different litho designs shown.
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JUPITER FLYING SAUCER - YOSHIYA - JAPANBrightly lithographed metallic blue tinplate and plastic battery operated saucer. There is an red plastic central dome which lights up. Marked Jupiter Space Patrol. Rotates with bump and go combined with a "floating" action: the whole ship tilts. Flashing lights. Unusually the saucer has no astronaut pilot. This is a reworking of the King Flying Saucer.
In a Yoshiya catalog:
#5112 - B/O King Flying Saucer
#5113 - B/O Jupiter Flying Saucer This would suggest a date similar to the King Flying Saucer c1971
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JUPITER JYRO - TOMYGyroscopic plastic flying saucer with orange plastic dome. Sits on plastic tower.
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Jupiter Mechanical Spacecraft"K" Company Japan. Small tin windup saucer. When wound up it rides in a circle while sparking at the front windows. As key turns it steers saucer the other direction. Shown with original box.
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KEROYON FLYING SAUCER - HAJITin friction saucer with Japanese frog character.
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KING FLYING SAUCER - YOSHIYA - JAPANBrightly lithographed tinplate and plastic battery operated saucer. There is an amber plastic central dome which lights up. Marked Space Patrol X-081. Rotates with bump and go combined with a "floating" action: the whole ship tilts. Flashing lights. Unusually the saucer has no astronaut pilot.
The saucer is featured in 1971-72 Victory Merchandise toy catalog, the earliest sighting to date.
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L-101 FLYING SAUCER - LTI? - INDIAA variation of the Yoshiya tin X-15 flying saucer with friction crank action drive. Green tin pilot with L-101 on chest under a clear plastic dome. Bump and go action. The saucer is marginally smaller than the X-15 and there are other minor differences. Copies seen have hand painted L-101 on the pilot. This version was issued in India. The lower photo shows a modern reproduction based on the L-101. The same pilot appears in the Indian LTI Sparking Tank, so this may be by the same maker.
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LUNAOdd tin wind up saucer. E Europe CSSR Czechkoslovakia. The tin form is also used to produce a toy beetle (without the fins).
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M-50 SPACE SHIP - MASUDAYA 1981Green litho tin and plastic battery op flying saucer with bump and go action. Spin Turn. Tin upper, plastic lower. Orange plastic robot pilot under a shallow central plastic dome. Red light on robot's head. A variation of the M-50 Space Lab saucer. The earliest sighting so far is in the "Japan 1981" Catalog.
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M2 Flying Saucer - ArgentinaTin lithographed wind up flying saucer (nave esapcial) from Argentina. This little saucer is marked Industria Argentina. It's about 10cms in diameter and has alien graphics and an unusual pair of mushroom antennas. The top structure appears to turn independently. The maker may be Nino Feliz (Happy Child). M 2
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MARTIAN FLYING SAUCER WITH SPARKS Z-01 AKA THE RED MAN FROM SPACE - NOMURA 1959 - JAPANCurrent first sighting is 1959 in a Butlers Department Store ad in the May 24 copy of the Van Nuys News.
Materials: Lithographed Tin with plastic dome and spark windows.
Action: Friction flywheel with sparks. TN
The Martian Flying Saucer is most notable for its distinctive illustrated box and spinning astronaut pilot. The full bodied astronaut is unique as most flying saucer pilots are merely heads or half torsos protruding above the control panel. During operation this guy really takes a ride - spinning in place atop his pinwheel disk as the saucer travels across the table - he must be a Martian because any mere human would be seriously ill after such a ride! Also known as The Red Man From Space because inexplicably that is what is lithoed on the bottom of the saucer. As with other Nomura friction saucers the dome is fragile and cracks easily. Since this saucer shares the same basic body pressing as the Nomura X-505 (although the Martian saucer has two extra worm shaped spark windows) my feeling is that it is a contemporary to the X-505 which has been dated to 1962. Another hard to find saucer with a wonderfully quirky and even tougher to find box.
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Mechanical Spacecraft Jupiter - OhtaTin with plastic dome and spark window.
Action: Sparkling, direction changing wind up.
The recognizable logo on the Jupiter flying saucer is a white K inside a black medallion but the name of the manufacturer is Ohta. Not a rare saucer by any standards but a great collectible none the less. From the checkerboard motif around the cockpit and on the pilots helmet which lends a nice mid sixties "Speed Racer" feel to the toy, to the simple yet ingenious method of changing the direction during operation, not to mention the excellent box art, the Jupiter has a lot going for it. One of the most simple yet effective mechanical gimmicks is the over sized wind key. While racing across the table, as the key unwinds and gets to the vertical position it lifts one wheel off of the table momentarily, this allows the opposite wheel left in contact with the table to pivot the saucer around the key until it passes though the vertical position and lets the saucer down again - thus completing a perfect U turn. With a good winding the Jupiter can do several laps back and forth before dying down. Somewhat like a slot car without the track. The frequency of mint in box examples appearing for sale leads me to believe there may have been a warehouse find at some point. The common version is the blue and silver Jupiter, but there is also a white and red variation which is harder to find. While very similar, the litho design does vary in many small details between the two saucers plus one major way - the red and white version reads "Jupitep" instead of Jupiter. Another difference is that the red and white version has plastic drive wheels while the silver and blue has metal wheels. (Fineas J Whoopie)
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