The Undiscovered Playthings

This next bootleg toy series is a concept that is pretty cool. I’ve seen something sort of like these toys, but not with the same kind of fan to fly the toy. What? Did I say fly? Well, sort of. These toys are tied to a line (I guess you can say it’s a tethered line), the power button is flipped on, you give the toy a push to get it started and off it goes. Round and round and round and round…. You get the idea, right?
Eh… I’ve got a youtube video of this thing in action. I posted it a while back. But I’m going to include it here too.

Here ya go…! All the figures have a fan at the bottom of their legs. The series is called Flying With Motor. There’s a splash on the top left of the card that reads: Flying All 3 Types Action. I thought it meant that there are three different figures. But I suppose the bootleg toy makers meant three different characters. Batman. Superman. Spider-Man. Those are the three superheroes represented in this bootleg toy line. There are actually two different versions of Superman and two versions of Batman. I never saw a second Spider-Man figure in this series.
Check ‘em out!

Superman

Superman II

Is this a twist by the bootleg toy makers? Or was Superman ever drawn with a dark blue costume and yellow logo?

Spider-Man

Batman

All the figures above are based on the same body mold. The bootleg toy makers just changed the paint and head of the figures. Including the fan at the bottom of the figure, these things stand just over twelve inches tall. The arms and head sport articulation. Behind about the knee level (you can see it clearly in the Batman pic) is a round plastic base that has a “gyrostabilizer” with some double sided tape on one side. There is also a long string with a hook at the end attached to the base. On the back of the each figure, a piece of plastic extends from the figure. This is where you attach the hook.

Drop a couple of batteries into the figure and you’re ready to fly. The back of the card has all the instructions needed (some of it is in Engrish instead of English) to help you get the toy in flight. I have to admit, these are pretty cool figures even if you don’t bother to get this thing airborne.

Here’s the youtube video of one of the toys in action. Enjoy!