Empire Plastics "Every-Thene" Unbreakable Assortment Space/Robot Figures

[space.trucks]

Hello. I've had these two yellow figures for a while. Soft plastic, 1.5 inches or so, no markings, tucked into a box and not thought of for a year+. Had been searching for plastic mini planes and came upon the package shown.

 

 

 

 

 

That's a match.

 

 

I believe the only thing keeping the bag closed are those two staples.

 

Bag is in danger of being opened due to this guy. I also want the vehicles for very small diorama like artworks, and a count of how many different poses there are. For now it remains unopened.

 

[Brian..]

What a neat little bag of figures. These are Co-Ma designs but the history of the figures is still vague. 

[Andyman]

Cool stuff. It looks like you can just loosen the staples to open it without and more damage to the packaging.

[space.trucks]

16 hours ago, Brian.. said:

What a neat little bag of figures. These are Co-Ma designs but the history of the figures is still vague. 

Aha, the index must be where I'd seen them, now it makes sense. I kept thinking Italy/Europe? but couldn't place why. Pliers are sitting at the ready to remove the staples when the moment feels right.

 

A hint from ToySoldierHQ is NYC based Empire was sold & moved to North Carolina in 1960 (page about 2/3rds down). Unless I be mistaken "Pelham Manor" is part of the Bronx so the package must have been assembled before then. Both he and the forum have pix of Empire packaging with "Bronx 56, NY" as the address. I'll email and see if he knows when they may have changed that to (or from) "Pelham Manor".

[space.trucks]

Some sharper pix of the spacemen. I totally missed how playfully twisted they are until seeing the gray one in the bag. Like a cross between Giant aliens and the LP Toys cyborgs.

 

 

 

[space.trucks]

Bag contents:

Five spacemen in three poses. If I recall correct there were five poses presented by Co-Ma.

 

So looks like one of my yellow's has pose number four, will keep looking. I also think that's some sort of steam punk pressure gasket on their heads, like for a crock pot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SERIOUSBOB]

They're actually very Steam Punk now that you mention it. I remember about 10 years back an entire sealed bag of these guys went for about $100 on E-bay because I missed the bid. However I had them in these same soft plastic versions as a child & w/o dating myself late 50s like 1958-1960 or so. I wasn't aware of the hard plastic CO-MA large & small versions until recently

[space.trucks]

Far out. Landed the first two with an inexpensive Lot buy of assorted figures and figured throwaway gumball machine toys. ToySoldierHQ identifies six poses in all, the quest goes on.