JJ’s Chicago Space Finds, JJ Schbetta has interest in space figures and accessories. He has sent me a series of photos of his finds to share with you. Also, a hilarious look various dioramas.
Space the Plastic Frontier
JJ’s Chicago Space Finds Model Exhibit
I love searching the internet for information. Recently in the Daily Mail, I found this cute article of a model show in West Cornwall. They had photographed the maker of the dioramas with him dwarfing over it. You can set that here.
Great awesome finds collection!! .
the Kellogs are indeed odd but still interesting ,i like then and got then .There actually an Argentina set base in it but not cloned and there a complete different 8 poses set made by Spanish maker that are same style inflated spacesuits ,yet not base in these.
The TT are rare to me see .The Poplar version was release with an variation pose .
I like the crackers and never able get then or see them all .Are they more poses!?
Archer had been one of the most copied set ever in space sets i guess,there so many Others who copied then ,not counting HK version. Still they have that 30s era futuristic charms i love it .
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Hey Erwin! Glad to see another fellow vintage Sci-Fi fan. Yes, there is one more pose of the Cracker Spacemen. The other pose is a standing spaceman, one hand on his hip and his other hand at his side. They are truly hard to find.
Thank you J J.now I need see how get then.
Yes figures are among my thematic collection. They are quite a challenge some times as not very finding are shows or Ebay and todocolcion .May may looking sources. Most collector toy soldiers do not have or sale then as not quite toy soldiers.
Still they were made by most toy soldier makers.
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fantastic the space figures .. realy cool ..
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I would like to offer my thoughts on the observations here about the appearance of the Kellogg’s spacemen. They do indeed look bulky compared with other figures of the same category, but they are faithful to the real lunar suits that were in early development by Nasa in 1960, even before Kennedy committed America to a moon landing. Look at the familiar photos of Apollo astronauts on the moon: the suits really were massive, and they had to be, in order to do their job. Some astronauts said that wearing the suit was more like being in a one-man submarine.
Pre-mission photos of the crew in their suits, but without helmets, show that the Kellogg’s figures got the proportion of head size exactly right. Again, it is an indication of how big the suits were. In the photo on this page, four of the spacemen are wearing helmets. They are not originals, as the clear helmets given away with the figures were larger and higher than they should have been, and these replicas are more accurate. The Apollo helmets were indeed a clear bubble, only seen in pre-launch activities; on the moon, the bubble was covered by a white overhelmet and tinted visor.
Finally, there are early photos of astronauts testing the suits without the white covering that we saw on the moonwalks, showing that the pressure suit had flexible bellows-type joints, exactly as seen on the Kellogg’s figures. So, if the Kellogg’s spacemen did not comply with the prevailing science fiction ideas conveyed by their contemporaries, that was because they were portraying the real space age that was just beginning, and to this day they compare well with the pioneers on whom they were based.
Evening, Paul. Do you have any information as to who sculpted the Archer Space people, Series 1 and 2? Thanks much.
Whit Knight
Sorry I have no idea.
I have cast metal moulds for these figures
Archer kellogs figures moulds for 5 separate figures