The Merchandise GuideToys
Compiled by Martin Willey
The Merchandise GuideUS 1976
"Colorforms Adventure Set No 609".
"Create your own Space 1999 Adventure aboard the Eagle 1 spaceship. Explore the Moon Surface near Moon Base Alpha. Colorforms plastic sticks like magic. No scissors. No paste. Lots of fun!"
Thick card backing (30.5 x 19.5 cm) with foldable 1.5 cm rim around: portrays crude art of cabin (in cut away) of Eagle on lunar surface.
Two 23 x 8 cm boards hold self sticking vinyl stickers to be placed on backing. Stickers in black & another colour (white, yellow, red, blue), including 2 torsos (one uniformed, one suited) of Helena & Koenig, plus various individual arms, helmets, chest packs, stun guns and pairs of legs.
Box 20.5 x 31.5 x 2.5 cm, art of Koenig & Helena floating in space by Eagle (front view, spine on underside); white series logo.
An 11 x 12 cm (folding out to 55 x 12 cm) colour leaflet shows the cover art plus three illustrations of the stickers in use on scenes from the board. "To the parent. Colorforms' toys have a rare educational value. They help a child develop and improve these seven important skills: Finger dexterity, Sense of spatial relationship, Size matching, Building ability, Color sense, Sense of neatness and order, Use of imagination and storytelling ability."
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Original artwork in acrylics for the Colorforms game. Cover art is 13" x 20" (33cm x 51cm), board art 13-1/2" x 19" (34cm x 48cm).
US, UK, Europe 1974
Three 9 cm diameter circular reels (numbers D150 1, D150 2, & D150 3), each with seven stereo pairs of colour photographs, to be viewed in a Gaf Viewmaster viewer. Very short descriptions on reels (photos trace story of "War Games", here titled "The Power Of Fear").
There were four different packaging sets.
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Original packaging in the UK was in 20 x 21 cm album. Album folded out into 60 x 21 cm, with three sides describing the story. Each side featured a colour photo and gave a short paragraph for each photo on one reel. Album number ND 150 E.  Interior of album (UK only) |
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Later a blister card was issued in the UK. There was no booklet. Versions for various European languages were also issued in this format (including German, Danish, French).    |
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In the US a smaller 10cm x 10cm packet with a booklet was issued. |
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The "Talking Viewmaster" featured an audio disc providing a narration attached to each picture reel. The box (20 x 21 cm) featured the photo of the Eagle by Earth, with two inset photos bottom right, of the planet surface towers and of Koenig & Helena in the Eagle cockpit. A small booklet (10 x 10cm, 16 pages) with black, white & blue line drawings on most pages was included to explain the story (titled "War Games"). |
All covers showed photo of Eagle near Earth, with inset photo top right of Koenig & Helena at Eagle control. A yellow banner across top left proclaimed "From the famous TV serial".
The Fanderson fan club published The FAB Book of Gerry Anderson View-Master Sets in Nov 2011. The Space: 1999 viewmaster sets are covered pp36-45, including scans of the images (not stereoscopic), the small booklet, and the card album text.
| UK 1976. "Paperplay No 6"
A 42 x 89 cm sheet of thin card with an orange helmet to be cut out & folded. |
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UK,US Made in Hong Kong style no. 37-2070 £10.95, $19.95 1976 15 x 20 x 6 cm chest pack. "A solid-state transistor radio with microphone space signal morse code button and earplug." Features: (as listed on side of pack)
Other side: 
uses 4 C size batteries - not included MICROPHONE - broadcast your voice or sing along with your favorite tunes SPACE SIGNAL BUTTON - send real morse code messages EARPLUG - for private listening |
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UK 99p 1977. Ref no 5703. Red plastic box (6 x 10 x 3.5 cm). Features: "retractable aerial" (6 cm long retractable wire), "ultrasonic space gun" (a rather lethal spring gun set in side of box) firing "laser bullets" (red plastic pellets), an "intergalactic horn" (makes a rasping noise), and "colour code celestial beam" with "multi colour light beam tuner" (a small light with a dial moving colour filters over it). Uses 1 penlight battery. Blister pack: 15 x 23 cm card with logo and good art of Eagle & Moon. |
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USA 1976 VF-2115 A megaphone. Requires 1 9-volt battery. Two trigger action - voice amplifier/emergency siren. 7.5 inches x 5 inches (19cm x 13cm). Box shows an astronaut using it (spot the scientific flaw!).  |
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USA
AM wrist radio. Large white leather strap, with a square white plastic radio and black speaker on the face. On one side are three silver metal dials (frequency, volume and on and off). On opposite sides are "Space: 1999" stickers (yellow logo on red background).
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The 1976 Vanity Fair catalogue showing the Megaphone and Wrist Radio (note the MASH wrist radio is identical apart from the logo stickers!).
These "pencil tops" are small rubber ornaments put on the ends of pencils. Judging by the R2D2 robot, they are 1977 or later. The box art is an adaption of the second (1976) UK annual cover art, featuring a rescue Eagle flying over a nuclear mushroom cloud. It was probably not licensed.
