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Very Strange Premier Variants From Argentina - Anybody Seen This Before?


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I didn't want to call these Premier since the seller says they were made in Argentina in the 1970s, they are evidently soft plastic, and have some parts totally different from the original spacemen, so they really are not Premier at all, but I didn't know how else to describe them. I bought them earlier today.

 

The ray gun guy has a ray gun that is COMPLETELY different from the original Premier hard plastic spacemen. The originals all have the same ray gun, they do not vary in that regard so far as I have ever been able to tell and I have quite a few at this point. Here is the variant I just got:

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Compare that ray gun to the original:

 

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And I also just bought this even more bizarre variant I've never seen before in which the ray gun guy's arm that is wielding the ray gun is actually pointed down instead of up, so I have no idea how this was made:

 

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And finally, I've dubbed this dude "swirly guy" for obvious reasons, and he is particularly interesting because if you look at the details of his face he clearly has a COMPLETELY different face from the original:

 

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As compared with the original:

 

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Swirly guy definitely has some kind of goggles on and an expressionless mouth while the original has no goggles at all and a slight grin. They also have differently tipped noses if you look closely.

 

I'm very curious what the thoughts are of the more experienced Jedi Masters of Alpha Drome. Should I still call these Premier or .... ?

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I find the green and pink figures stances odd. With the slight slouch and leaning back they almost look like figures meant for some sort of drunk spacemen bar fight scene 

 

That said I actually like the figures.

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6 hours ago, Brian.. said:

Argentina has a whole parallel universe of toys.

 

Here's a database search of "Argentina Premier":

 

http://alphadrome.net/data/thumbnails.php?search=argentina+premier&submit=search&album=search&title=on&newer_than=&caption=on&older_than=&keywords=on&type=AND

 

South America has been a "secondary market" for a lot of early European/Italian figures: from Alpia ( LOS SELENITAS - TROVADOR - ARGENTINA -    https://alphadrome.net/data/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pid=4504#top_display_media) to Raja to CoMa (in the last case not for the space ones, FWIK, but for the military ones, as the Ancient Romans). It is realistic to think, IMO, that many original Italian moulds were sold on that market atefer the end of their use in Italy, in the '60.

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