Futuron: 6875 Hovercraft: Alternate 4

And we're back for one final wild ride aboard hovercraft.  Excuse me while I grab some coffee to make this post more aliiive!

I have saved, what is in my mind, the best box alternate for last.  I shall call it the chick walker, because it has feet and it's a tubby little thing.  

Although the mouth and eyes are totally bubble eye goldfish.

I will be your end!!! bloop.

forced comparisons to cute animals aside; this is an intriguing model which holds its astronaut inside of a basket cockpit with excellent side visibility and poor front and back views.  In my base it would be a perimeter scout surveying the landscape outside the base and looking toward the base for any sign of intruders.  

The front blasters are adjustable to deal with any Alienators

or

Invaders









Up high in the sky, Invader has been sighted at coordinates 00°41′15″N, 23°26′00″E.  Preparing to engage, send a StarDefender ASAP.

The top down view reveals sparse controls, and a simple elegant design.  The blocked front and rear visibility are very apparent from this vantage point.





































Chick walker to base, perimeter is secure.

Somewhere in an encrypted channel.
Blacktron guy 1: Dood, this plan is so great; so when do we run toward the base???
Blacktron guy 2: No idea dood but I already feel like we won.
Blacktron guy 1: Dood, this plan is so good.
Blacktron guy 2: Good?  No dood, this plan is so Bad, we're Bad, so we have Bad plans.
Blacktron guy 1: Ooh, Dood you're sooo right, this Bad plan is terrifically Bad.
Blacktron guy 2: Dood!  Best Bad sneaking job ever!

Will Blacktron enter the base and enact their nefarious plan to enter the base, or will the chick walker discover their do baddery before it's too late?

It's up to you to decide.

Until next time, the Cure-all Pill

Futuron: 6875 Hovercraft~Alternate 3

A toy is good when you can have a lot of fun with it.  My initial appraisal of Hovercraft from photographs was of a lesser, forgettable Futuron set which failed to achieve any fame or notoriety equal to Star Defender 200 or Monorail Transport system.

My time with this set has allowed me to see that for all its unassuming shape, and weird quirks it's probably futuron's most balanced toy design.  The parts are complimentary to one another, and the balance of cool to necessary parts is near perfect.  When disassembled, this toy is a treat.

On the planet of moon a tower was built.  Itt was no ordinary tower, for it moved upon the craters and the grades of lunar dust.  Some say it had eyes which saw all things hid in the heavens.

It came to pass that a shooting star streaked downward over the horizon and it caught the attention of the tower.

The tower's eyes followed the streak like lightning past the point of visibility.  Unable to continue following the trail of light, the downcast eyes of the tower fixed an oblique gaze upon the dust.  The tower exhaled with a groaning, grinding sob, for it had lost its quarry.  The keeper of the tower stepped upon the lunar soil and console the dejected tower.  He prodded and cajoled it with comforting words.  "Dagnabbit! the rotational sensor's locked up again."

The tower's caretaker convinced  the tower to look heavens-ward once more and both set out to catch the fallen star.

No one can say what was found for both the tower and its operator were lost on the dark side of planet Moon.

The end.