Space 1999 - Kickstarter

[Videoviper]

OK, I’ve been looking at 3D printers for awhile now with this specific project in mind. Then this morning I get this Kickstarter

Space 1999 Eagle up scaled to 1/18th

Needless to say this was an instant back. I had the Mattel toy (incomplete hand me down) as a kid. Star Wars figures didn’t fit in it well, but Joe with their bendable knees did.

Hoping they add a few more tiers such as extra shuttle (The front control & back engine come off & can make its own spaceship)

 

[Videoviper]

The project is being moved to ZICA Toys Direct

it’s been funded outside of KS.

 

[zodiacflash]

Been a while since I've posted here, and this is a good opportunity to give this thread a bump. I hadn't done a google search on Space 1999 for new results in a while, so I did one last week and found out about this. I ordered the standard version, the Mattel version, and a set of extra figures. Sure it was expensive, but worth it for me. Plus, everything in my collection is an investment, anyway. I'll keep one Eagle in the box and the other will accompany my original on the shelves. Ordering time has been extended a bit, so I'm getting the word out to everyone I can.

 

[Videoviper]

First off, we want to give a huge thanks to the customers who have supported this project, it could not have happened without you. We also want to thank you for your patience as we know it's been a much longer waiting period than we initially thought. However, we firmly believe the wait will be worth it as we've always believed it was important to not rush or cut corners in order to deliver a high quality product that our customers will be extremely proud to have in their collection.

Please note that the preorder window will be closing at the end of this month at midnight EST on Sunday, November 30th. Once the EAGLE:1976 has shipped to our warehouse, which is expected to be at the end of February 2026, it will be listed for order again on the zicatoys.com website but at a higher retail price. The Eagle:1976 vehicle will increase to $400.00, and the astronaut crew pack will increase to $80.00. The lower preorder pricing is the best deal to get these amazing collectibles but that price is only available until the end of the month. Be sure to not miss out!

Thanks,

Craig & Tim

 

[nacho]

Wow, this is another show, like The Prisoner, that I have never heard of. I watched a ton of 60's and 70's reruns growing up in the 80s, but this never crossed my path. You must have had some interesting cable channels growing up to have seen such niche programming!

 

[ThunderDan19]

You guys had cable???

 

[nacho]

You guys had cable???
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No, not really. We lived in the boonies and got four channels. BUT, my dad got cable at the office, so we could watch it there. We spent a lot of time there b/c mom frequently needed to go back to the office after school... and on days we were sick, we went to work (my sister and I had our own office so we didn't infect anyone).

Sick days were the best (assuming you weren't violently ill). Go to the office, pile up on the couch, watch cartoons on cable, and the Dairy Queen was literally next door to us. Nothing cures a cold like Bozo, USA Cartoon Express, and a Mr Misty slush.

Then the afternoon would roll around, and even cable had nothing to watch until after-school cartoons started up. That early afternoon with nothing but soaps and talk shows was brutal. Not only were you bored, but then you started thinking about how behind you were going to be tomorrow. But the morning was glorious.

 

[ThunderDan19]

So even cable didn't have good daytime TV? That's equally surprising and disappointing. I do remember catching cable/olde timey (car- sized) satellite/movie channels at family/friends' or parents' workplaces occasionally. That was usually a treat, but sometimes , as the pay channels had much more of the naughty stuff.

Overall, I'm kinda glad we didn't have most of it when I was young and impressionable. At least Joe, ThunderCats, XFRMS and a few lesser toons were on regular TV, which we had (at least to some degree, as the static was strong where we lived when the leaves were on). And there were the local independent stations - before Fox, CW, UPN, etc. - that carried reruns of Star Trek, $6M Man and other adventure shows during the day, and more obscure stuff like Voltron on the weekends. But even those ran thin about halfway through the summer.

I did finally get basic cable as a teenager to watch hockey, and discovered ESPN, MTV and my favorite Discovery WINGS channel. I'm old enough to remember Discovery and History back when they still did educational documentary style shows and not stupid "reality" ones. I miss those days.

 

[nacho]

As a kid I was content most of the time at home with our UHF local channel that carried afternoon cartoons and Star Trek at 6pm (anything beat watching the news). At some point it became our FOX affiliate, but they never had programming until primetime, so the channel was unchanged during the day.

My grandparents decided to get me a tv for my room (a BIG deal) when I was 11 or 12... but my parents feared I would never come out again, so they told them to not get me anything good. So I got a 13" B&W tv with no coax connection to our house antenna... so I just had rabbit ears. FYI, a 13" B&W is basically a glorified radio

In high school, we finally got a giant old-school satellite dish, and the installer liked my dad, so he would program us to get all the channels... and I mean A-L-L of the channels, even the PPV and extremely naughty stuff. There was nothing we couldn't get, but it's not like you could watch anything risque' in the livingroom where the dish was piped in. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Videoviper]

We were in between NY & Philly so we got a good combo of channels mostly Gilligan’s Island (seriously it would play throughout the day & I had sometimes 3 different shows I could watch. I somehow managed to see the whole series except for the B&W 1st season which I think they just remade some of those episodes.

for Space 1999 I had a hand me down Eagle which the Joes fit in but the SW ironically did not. I never actually saw the show until recently & I have not had the time to finish it.

For the Prisoner, that was a “artsy” subversive show my friend was obsessed with it’s weird you either get it or you don’t but hey 1/18 (ish) figures I am game to add some spies to my collection.

 

[ThunderDan19]

nacho You had a B&W too? Once we somehow came into having one of those enormous console (not that huge of a screen for the weight) color TVs in the living room, I inherited the family portable B&W TV. It was maybe a 20" or so. I don't really remember. Also ran it off rabbit ears, and then a larger outdoor antenna when we moved away from the city. That was the bare minimum needed to get the 3 or so channels we could get year round, and the bonus couple that would start to come in from fall to spring. (I literally didn't have ABC at home for years of my childhood).

I always wanted to get satellite, but we never had the money for it. My grandparents had it for a little while, but I only saw them a couple weeks a year, and I don't think they really even knew how to use it anyway. They had better TV than we did, even without the dish, so at least there was that when I visited them.

I watched a lot of evening cartoons on that old B&W (thank goodness, Joe came on one of the channels we did get), and had it into my early teens. Heck, I'm pretty sure I even hooked up my first video games to it (Commodore 64!). Those were some good - if sometimes pretty boring between fun programming and/or reception - times!

I do remember watching Saturday morning and prime time on the monster in the living room (to get the full experience!), oh and Saturday night wrestlin' . There was never anything remotely scandalous there, as my mom would make me change the channel for even entry level swear words - which is probably why I still have such low tolerance for it today.

I didn't have a color TV in my bedroom until my mid-teens, when I got a used one from the TV fix-it guy I was working for at the time. Man I hated that job... and he didn't hook up cable or anything, just fixed the hardware, so no special benefits there, beside the "deal" on the TV.

We could get the regular Pittsburgh stations over the air from where we lived by then, but I was really starting to get into hockey and was making some spare cash, so I got us cable. It was only then I joined the modern era with hundreds of channels to watch (in living color!) and still nothing on TV most of the time.

 

[Videoviper]

I remember babysitting for one of my cousins & we showed her the B&W 12” big screenTV

Eventually we convinced her color hadn’t been invented yet way back then

The young generation will never know the perils of watching a mostly snowy screen.