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Post by Josh on Jul 11, 2006 17:26:01 GMT -5
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Post by hernesson on Jul 12, 2006 2:20:38 GMT -5
Ah wow! Cooool! I knew about this as it was one of the ones mentioned in the 1985 Kenner Toy Catalogue as -to be released- but I could never convince anyone to send me a picture. Well, here it is. Shame it never got released! :-) They were also going to release a radio control bike too!
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Post by hernesson on Jul 12, 2006 4:06:04 GMT -5
Funny, if it were me now going back to my childhood I'd probably want to make my own Command Centre like this, ala Tracy Island: with cardboard, toilet rolls and sticky backed plastic! Back then I wasn't very practically minded though. I liked drawing and design more and liked to draw schematics. I think I even tried to draw a layout of the comand centre showing the launch tube, fitness rooms, consoles and everything. I may even have put Norm's bed in there too. I figured he had to live there and it seems that was the case!
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Post by Pentastar on Jul 13, 2006 9:38:56 GMT -5
Wow!!!
After all these years, the holy grail of playsets finally emerges (or at least a picture of it).
I wonder if the original prototype still exists, forgotten in some guy's attic or a hollywood warehouse.
Yeah, I remember as a kid having fun drawing things like underground lairs. All the compartments, access tubes, etc. were really fun to map out. Even these days I'm already mentally contemplating how my new Command Center is going to be laid out. I hope to use one of my old GI Joe Headquarters playsets to do it.
Thanks a ton Josh for finding and sharing this. I hope you snatched a copy of the image, even if it is watermarked.
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Post by hernesson on Jul 13, 2006 10:18:28 GMT -5
No kidding, the Holy Grail. I would have been the happiest kid alive with this! ;D
As far as playsets go, my friend who was mega spoilt as a kid had most of the popular ones. I always wanted to have an Airwolf "Lair" playset with the chopper rising up the flume. I wondered about converting the M.A.S.K Boulder Hill Playset for this purpose more than once!
Note the different style of bike, which is better than the Hyperthrust Friction one Kenner actually brought out. This one looks like the bike actually was in the series. The friction one was perhaps meant to be the pilot bike as it had no missile tubes. The nose looks pretty good, the handle bars are much better and the biker is better shaped too. The three cycles were going to be sold seperately I believe, as they are listed seperate in the catalogue. Norman would have come with the playset.
This is an exciting find even though it's an ad. Thanks for sharing this Josh!
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Post by Mike D on Jul 24, 2006 18:49:27 GMT -5
Wow I have been dreaming about that toy since i was 4 years old. It makes me want to go crazy searching for that prototype.
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Post by Pentastar on Jul 24, 2006 19:22:20 GMT -5
No kidding.
I'm sure its out there somewhere, hiding in some attic or someone's "collection", out of sight, and generally unknown. And it will probably never be found, though I wish someone would find it, take pictures, and send them to the site.
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Post by hernesson on Jul 25, 2006 8:40:21 GMT -5
Just thought I'd share this with you. It's one of my favourite all-time pieces of Street hawk toys and one I am keeping no matter what! If you see one of these and it is cheap enough I thoroughly recommend you get one. It's way better that those viewmaster reels we probably all had a kids (the ones with the circular photos) It's quite simply the world's smallest battery-operated super 8 film viewer and contains about 10 seconds of actual film. I have Airwolf, Knight Rider and Street Hawk cassettes, which are extremely rare to find now. Anyway, the SH one shows the doors to the hold opening amindst the smoke and Jesse getting on and off the bike. I really wish there was some way of showing you, but it's impossible. Actually, my favourite is the Airwolf one which has the season 2 ignition sequence with Airwolf rising up out of the lair and in the middle of a lightning storm.
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Post by hernesson on Jul 29, 2006 13:34:33 GMT -5
This is the Kenner Trade Ad for their SH Friction Bike which unlike the Command Centre, was produced. Thought you may be interested in seeing this - Cool photo!
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Post by Pentastar on May 23, 2007 18:13:54 GMT -5
Did someone ever capture a picture from this auction? I was wanting to go back and look at the image of the prototype Command Center but this auction is obviously erased from the eBay system.
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Post by hernesson on May 25, 2007 15:13:57 GMT -5
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Post by Pentastar on May 25, 2007 18:51:11 GMT -5
Fantastic!
Thanks Dan!
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Scott
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Post by Scott on Jun 7, 2007 19:45:58 GMT -5
Yes, thanks for the Command photo. So cool to see toys that were never produced.
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