NUMBERS

this page is intended to collect (hopefully useful) lists of various numbers that we have and may yet come across: those found on toys, packaging etc.

Spacex Stage 1 model numbers

Four of the Stage 1 models carry a number moulded into the plastic. Presumably these are model numbers by manufacturer McArthur Ltd, but why only these four are thus marked and the others aren't remains a mystery.

Spacex Stage 1 stock/catalogue numbers

The Stage 1 blister cards don't feature a stock number as such, but do have a numbered list of available models, the numbers of which are part of each actual stock number. Boxed Stage 1 toys have the full stock number marked on the box, and a shipping carton for 12 blister cards shows how the stock numbers relate to the carded toys.

We sadly don't have anything like a contemporary sales list, but extrapolating the known numbers on the boxes gets me the list below. The number before the forward slash may be a sequential number of each toy in a list of all toys produced for Rovex or its Pedigree (or even Pippin) subsidiary, while the number following the forward slash is the specific item number in the Spacex range.
(Links take you to the pages showing numbers, please use your browser's Back button to return here)

Stock nr	Item	Source
1157/1	Tractor T5 blister card	Extrapolated
1158/2	Forklift 7 blister card	Extrapolated
1159/3	Helicopter P3 blister card	Shipping box
1160/4	Hawk blister card	Extrapolated
1161/5	Mercury blister card	Shipping box
1162/6	Reconnaissance 2 blister card	Extrapolated
1163/7	Needle Probe blister card	Extrapolated
1164/8	Prospector blister card	Extrapolated
1165/9	Explorer MEV2 blister card	Shipping box
1166/10	Mobile HQ blister card	Extrapolated
1167/11	Patrol Cricket blister card	Shipping box
1168/12	Rocket Nova blister card	Shipping box (also shown above)
1169/13	Nuclear Freighter blister card	Extrapolated
1170/14	Space Patrol 1 blister card	Extrapolated
1171/15	Pleasure Cruiser blister card	Extrapolated
1172/16	Mobile Launching Pad boxed	Toy box
1173/17	Nuclear Pulse boxed	Toy box
1174/18	Moon Base HQ boxed	Toy box
1175	Superset 1 boxed set	Set box
1175/19	Moon Base HQ boxed set	Set box
1176/20	Earth Launch Pad boxed set	Set box (also shown above)
1177/21	Space Station boxed set	Set box

The list above assumes a block of consecutive numbers was allocated to the Stage 1 series. If this is true, it would imply the three later boxed sets had been planned from the start.
Superset 1 having no number behind the forward slash and sharing the first number with the next set is very strange.

Pippin Spacex stock/catalogue numbers

Stock numbers for the two later Pippin Spacex extensions to the fleet are tricky, in that we currently only have two of these, marked on two boxes of the larger toys. The number between these two will likely have been allocated to the pair of Soyuz craft, which appeared at the same time and will likely also have been boxed.

The gap in the numbers between the Stage 1 and Pippin series may indicate that for the Pippin series an entirely new block was allocated, or possibly that numbers for other toys from other series sit inbetween. If a new block of numbers were started, then it would probably be numbered starting with the smaller toys on blister cards, followed by the three larger boxed toys added later. But if that new block of numbers started at nr 1201, there would be a gap for one missing number somewhere in the sequence...

It also appears the forward slash followed by the Spacex serial number was dropped from the stock numbers. (Use your browser's Back button to return here from linked pages in table below)

Stock nr	Item	Source
1217	LEM Apollo boxed	Toy box (also shown above)
1218	Soyuz 6 & 7 boxed (probably)	Probable
1219	Photonic Space Station boxed	Toy box (also shown above)

Golden Astronaut stock/catalogue numbers

Multiple Toymakers had its own numbering system, where I don't know if and if so, how that ties in with their other ranges of toys. In any case, the type of packaging seems to determine the first one or two digits, with the final digit distinguishing a series of blisters or a set containing multiple toys.

Single vehicles were allocated one stock number per themed subseries, which were sold in mixed assortments of 3 dozen per shelf pack. Whether individual vehicles had an extra identification further to the stock number for each theme isn't known, at any rate neither packaging nor dealer catalogues show anything of the sort.

Following the same practice, the four Spacex II vehicles added later to the range also received one single stock number between them.

Stock numbers are printed on the lower right corner of each blister card front and on the sides of set boxes. The 1969 and 1970 dealer catalogues are included in the Paperwork section (use your browser's Back button to return here).

Stock nr	Item	Source
103	Launch Site blister cards (3 different)	blister cards - dealer catalogues
104	Space Probe blister cards (4 different)	blister cards - dealer catalogues
105	Moon Exploration blister cards (4 diff)	blister cards - dealer catalogues
106	Interplanetary Patrol blister cards (4 diff)	blister cards - dealer catalogues
911	Launch Site triple card	blister card - dealer catalogues
912	Space Probe triple card	blister card - dealer catalogues
913	Moon Exploration triple card	blister card - dealer catalogues
914	Interplanetary Patrol triple card	blister card - dealer catalogues
1523	Launch Site boxed set	set box - dealer catalogues
1524	Moon Exploration boxed set	set box - dealer catalogues
1525	Interplanetary Patrol boxed set	set box - dealer catalogues
3202	Super Set boxed set	set box
507	Deluxe Die Cast Chassis window boxes (4 different)	window boxes - dealer catalogues

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