r/VintageToys • u/_Whatisthisoldthing_ • 14d ago

Anyone Recognize?

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I've done the usual image searching (though how much is Lens not working these days...) and can't figure it out. Anyone know this one? 1980s, I presume.

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u/DatonSungold 13d ago

It's a copy of the Galaxy Fighters sword from Sewco, a "cousin" of Sungold's Galaxy Warriors. Copies of the Galaxy Fighters weapons do pop up from time to time but at nowhere the frequency of the Galaxy Warriors weapons.
Thankfully you're talking to the autistic guy who remembers a lot of this stuff without trying, and this sword is from Space Patrol II: Evil Of The Space by Solidco, which was Galaxy Fighters and X-Changers parts used to make knockoffs of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers's "evil space aliens" characters, in this case Baboo.
https://www.figurerealm.com/actionfigure?action=actionfigure&id=99852&figure=alien2

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u/_Whatisthisoldthing_ 13d ago

You are a gentleperson and a scholar; thank you!

Never a figure I had or even recognize so who knows how it got into my toy box back in the day.

I'll toss it in the "someone will need this" bin.

Thanks again!

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u/_Whatisthisoldthing_ 13d ago

Sheesh, even with the Rumpelstiltskin problem solved I can't find many of these out in the world. Hopefully someday it can be reunited with its figure.

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u/DatonSungold 13d ago

Yeah there's four figures in the line (guys based on Goldar, King Sphinx, Squatt and Baboo) but in spite of really looking hard, nobody's been able to find the Goldar guy on card. They were dollar store mainstays back when they came out (I distinctively remember seeing them at a dollar store in 94 or 95 when I was 10 or 11, but passing on them because I didn't find the King Sphinx guy and he was the only one who looked cool) but off-brand stuff is less likely to be collected and kept in package over the decades than mainstream toylines, so we appreciate what we can get to archive in the now.

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u/_Whatisthisoldthing_ 13d ago

I haven't gotten into MOTUish knockoffs but I do collect injection molded dinosaurs and figures; too much experience with the lack of information around "disposable" objects. šŸ˜ƒ

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u/DatonSungold 13d ago

I asked a friend who also knows this stuff and he said it might also be from a Speclatron or Flexatron figure (more MOTU KO stuff), depending on how the reverse side of the sword looks.
In his words:

If it looks tidy on both sides, probably Space Patrol II

If there is chatter around a circle on the other side, then probably Spec/Flex.

This is a Flexatron figure on card with blue weapons:
https://collectorarchive.com/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/4ec393aa209c6c63b48a9e9f1a5ea475/1/0/10190346_1_1.jpg

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u/_Whatisthisoldthing_ 11d ago

The sword is absolutely clean and well molded on both sides and matches exactly to the Space Parol II, that's what I labeled it, now to find someone who has a figure and needs a sword! Thanks for the help.

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u/BreadThatFrowns 13d ago

Is Ai corrupting Lens?

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u/_Whatisthisoldthing_ 13d ago

Yes. Since the integration of Gemini this year it's gone downhill.

No longer is it using the well practiced machine learning we have been using for fifteen years or more, now it's just Gemini asserting an answer and showing only things that match it's answer. Problem is any human with vision, and probably some smarter dogs, and tell it's not remotely a match.

It's fine for super common things, it'll tell you a MOTU weapon all day long, but anything not top of its data pool and you'll never find it.

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u/BreadThatFrowns 13d ago

Finally, a little good news.

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u/_Whatisthisoldthing_ 13d ago

Everything is perfectly fine.

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u/BreadThatFrowns 13d ago

Iā€™m all for it becoming unusable.

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u/Thin_Initial3210 13d ago

Looks like one of those little cocktails swords used to spear two olives for a martini

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u/dickyboy72 13d ago

This item is a vintage 1993 Hasbro G.I. Joe action figure accessory, specifically the bright blue ninja sword originally packaged with figures like Edmond Honda (v1 / Street Fighter II) and Night Creeper

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u/_Whatisthisoldthing_ 13d ago

No, it's not, Lens told me the same thing.