In time, the colour of the Pleasure Cruiser went from an early canary-yellow to a final peach-orange colour. The earliest colour shades were not available as Golden Astronaut toys, but otherwise there's no difference between the Spacex and GA versions.
Size
Length
Width
Height
84 mm
74 mm
26 mm
3 5/16 in in
2 15/16 in
1 in
Features
Engine hatch can be opened
Variations
Colours
Pleasure Cruisers started off in a canary-yellow colour, which was then replaced with an orange-yellow before the final peach-orange (see Spacex cards for examples). The clear plastic canopy and hatch cover also exist in various shades of blue and blue-green next to untinted.
Known
- Lemon-yellow without trademark
(top pic)
- Lemon-yellow, trademarked
- Peach-orange, trademarked (bottom pic)
Prototypes & Mockups
Spacex card back photograph shows a Cruiser with a red stripe that looks like a sticker instead of the tampo-printed stripe on the production toy.
Packaging
Spacex
Golden Astronaut
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Origin
A rocket ship in a comic strip published in the Boys' World Annual of 1968, thought to've been drawn by Bruno Maraffa.
Registered Design/Design Patent
Copies & Clones
Roxy
2005 and Beyond
Futuristic
H-G
A friend remembers another copy by Larami
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