The Merchandise Guide
Figures
Compiled by Martin Willey

UK 49p US $1.99 1976

"Official Space 1999 Parachutist", "Realistic floating action! * Completely assembled

* Perfectly balanced and weighted" No 6347 (both designs)

Two designs, each figure 12 cm tall with yellow & red striped plastic parachute:

• Uniformed figure (grey with brown boots & belt)
• Space suited (red spacesuit, silver helmet, boots & gloves; accurate paper sticker on chest pack with number '6')

Blister card 19 x 27 cm, crude art of astronaut & Eagle with inset photo of Koenig.

For Year 2 each had new, different, blister packs, titled "Fly 'Em High!". The uniformed figure had art of Koenig in his orange jacket; the astronaut had art of an astronaut (based on a pose from The Exiles) and the Metamorph Eagle with boosters.

See other Azrak-Hamway (ahi) toys. Thanks to Gordon Moriguchi for image

US 1976

"Official Space 1999 Walking Spaceman", "Battery Operated"
Grotesque Frankenstein-proportioned astronaut which waddles along on huge yellow feet. The face in the cylindrical helmet is vaguely Koenig; the chest pack is fairly accurate. With blinking light and "radiation sound".

Sold in a square box illustrated with astronauts from Ring Around The Moon (Helena being dazzled as Koenig reacts), a small Eagle and, on the front, Ahi's standard pictures of Koenig and Bergman.

See other Azrak-Hamway (ahi) toys.

UK £2.25, later £2.49 1975

All cat no. 22830. Figures 20 cm tall, posable with joints in neck, waist, shoulders & hips, elbow & knee, wrist & ankle. Likenesses approximate. Alphan figures have yellow belt with small red plastic comlocks.

• "Captain Koenig", "Commander, Alpha Moonbase". White uniform.
• "Paul Morrow", "Second In Command". White uniform.
• "Alan Carter", "Chief Pilot". Red spacesuit, red crash helmet with movable visor.
• "Mysterious Alien", "From Deep Space". War Games Male Alien in purple robe.
• "Captain Zantor", "From The Planet Kaldor". In brown robe and waist coat.

Blister card 23.5 x 21.5 cm with photo of Alpha and inset art of the hs of all 5, on front and back. "From the most spectacular space series ever".

US $15 per figure, $60 per set of 4. 2005

Reproduction figures based on the 1975 UK Palitoy set (minus Koenig, for licensing reasons). As per the originals, these are 20cm tall with 16 points of articulation. They continue the inaccuracies of the original (white uniforms, yellow belts). The 4th set includes two figures with a more accurate orange spacesuit.

The blister card is also a reproduction of the original, although the rather good artwork portraits have been replaced with photos of the actual figure heads.

Random "chase figures" with a single Donruss card inserted inside the packaging were available.

Single limited edition figures were also produced, of 500 figures each- an Alan Carter in uniform (with 8 different online retailers), Security Guard (with Italian retailer Murotoys.com) and Alan Carter "From The Mark Of Archanon" in red jacket (with TJ's Toys.com).

In pre-release photos, the Mentor figure (set 2) and the Companion figure (set 3) wear the wrong clothes- they have swapped costumes. This was corrected in the released figures.

Above: Alan Carter uniform variation. Below: chase card figure

US, Germany 1975

"Exciting TV Characters From Moonbase Alpha!" Each 22 cm tall. Torso and legs hard plastic, head & arms soft plastic, jointed at neck, shoulder, hips & knees. Polyester uniforms, each with plastic belt, comlock and stun gun (very accurate) plus soft plastic slippers. Likenesses poor.

• "Commander Koenig" no 9542 Light brown uniform, dark brown sleeve & collar.
• "Professor Bergman" no 9543 Dark brown uniform, light brown sleeve & collar.
• "Doctor Russell" no 9544 Bright orange-red uniform, light orange sleeve.
• "Zython" no 9875 "The mysterious space alien! His head glows in the dark!" Green robed alien with red staff, sandals and a green phosphorescent head

The alien was due to be added in 1976 (original packaging did not feature Zython in the set). But it was cancelled (possibly before production). A few figures exist, which may be sales prototypes or early production figures; they are very rare. Mattel sold the mold to Cispa in Mexico, who produced a taller 10 inch version called Nocton for their Big Jim line of figures. The advert below is for a competition in the German comic Zack (thanks to Patrick Zimmerman). It includes Zython, suggesting the figure was released in Germany (333 of them were prizes in this competition).

Blister pack 16 x 30 cm. Fair artwork shows applicable character in foreground, other 2 behind, Moon, explosion & Eagle in background. Back of pack is blue and white, showing 3 characters: description "Action figures stand nine inches tall. They can sit, stand and they're posable. They wear Space 1999 uniforms with Stun Gun and holster, plus communicator-computer which clips to the belt." Later packs noted "Zython wears outer space costume, his head glows in the dark!" A playset was produced for the figures by Mattel. The three Alphan figures were also available in the Deluxe version of the Playset. Mattel also produced the Eagle 1 Spaceship and the Flying Eagle.

The Koenig and Bergman figures can be seen in the 2005 comedy film The 40 Year Old Virgin starring Steve Carrell as a character who collects such action figures.

UK 1998

1:32 scale (5 cm tall) white metal figure kits in theTV Classics series (also including Blakes 7 figures), modelled by Ian Marchant. Good accuracy. Not licensed and thus not identified as Space: 1999.

• TV1- Moonbase Commander. Koenig figure in uniform
• TV2- Moonbase Pilot. Carter figure in spacesuit, running.

• http://www.imar.co.uk/

US

"Character Identified 3 dimensional rotation moulded vinyl" (Mentioned in "The Making Of Space: 1999" by Tim Heald). There were two figures, each pocket money banks.

• Commander Koenig (actually an astronaut, pictured in "Exploring Space: 1999" by John Kenneth Muir, p193)
• Helena Russell (in uniform)
  

'Starflash (TM) Computer lights up! Console for "reading out" Moon Base data! TV screens for "monitoring" vehicle launchings!'

Play set designed for the Mattel figures, including plastic 24 cm tall pedestal (the "Starflash (TM)" computer) with a flashing light and attached chair, another plastic chair and small table, a vinyl floor and wall mat (18" x 30" x 11", ie 44 deep x 76 wide x 28 cm tall) and stickers. The walls may be in silver gray or dark gray.
"Unassembleed. Battery and action figures not included". A plastic sheet is designed to wrap around the "computer", with nice colour art of the Moon and a galaxy, plus two black & white photos of Eagles. The stickers include 9 colour photos (for the TV screens), showing various Year One effects (Eagles, the breakaway explosion, the Missing Link city, the Dragon, Satazius). The vinyl mat featured panels loosely based on the original Year One computer designs, though comprising no real recognisable set.

Box, 35 x 31 x 9 cm, features yellow logo and art of the set including Koenig, Helena (in red uniform) and Victor (in brown uniform); an annotated diagram of the set in on the back, in blue.

A 14 x 28 cm instruction sheet, folding out to 42 x 28 cm, details construction.

The DELUXE SET was identical but included the Mattel figures of Koenig, Helena and Bergman.

6 inches (15cm tall) painted resin model. Sold to members of the UK-based Fanderson fan club.