This amazing collection was purchased from someone who found this very blog. A detailed article will follow in due course.

Absolutely amazing collection and condition including boxed Gen2 Explorers RE1 & ME1!

It just so happens the land-train aspect of Explorers lends it self very well to planetary exploration....who would have though lol. There's one or two games out there where you can a have a Explorer type experience.

ASTRONEER

A fun little game based upon exploring cartoonish planets. The game features all kinds of modular machines however this post only contains information on the wheeled vehicles. Vehicles start from small buggy types all the way up to 6 wheeled monster Explorer variety. The vehicles can then be lashed together using flex umbilical's and fitted with a variety of tools, power packs, winch's etc which all fit together via a snap-in function similar to Lego! The vehicles feature All Wheel Drive too!

I made a post about the toy range on the developers website many years ago, never heard anything back but it would be nice to know if it inspired them in anyway!

Astroneer | A Game of Aerospace Industry and Interplanetary Exploration

Astroneer: A sci-fi exploration and adventure game from developer System Era.

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Kerbal Space Program

Been out since 2013 with a new version in development. KSP started as a just a little game then expanded into a huge release with many hundreds of excellent mods available. The game features layman type physics meaning you can get deep into the physics of rocketry without actually being a rocket scientist. The aim of the game is space flight however does have a very interesting planetary exploration element unlike Astroneer which features ground exploration exclusively. It can be quite challenging building a vehicle and successfully delivering it to another world in one piece. I've often though of making an Explorer mod for KSP however the designs some of these guys have made a far, far superior and functional!

Kerbal Space Program – Create and Manage Your Own Space Program

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After a decade I finally got round to scanning in the Space Annual! 😅😅😅

Available for download below. Right click on the item and open new window as Google doesn't like iframes.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gZi3e2gszAxWj9bLyK9Tk0z7DuZJKpCI?usp=sharing

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Does anyone have a copy of this? I can encode and upload to YouTube!

 Bill over at Project Sword kindly sent me these that he discovered on the Daily Mail archives.

I received some pics of from Massimiliano Brusa in Italy of his Explorer. A small pic of this type can be seen on the box of my Woolworths Explorer.

Got this from china still boxed and very good condition for the grand sum of £20. This is my first complete Terrain Explorer 🙂   Now to find the trailers!

Acquired this one last year for about £50 from Argentina complete with red snow plough. Its the same body shell of the American Explorer but this time boxed and in a much more pleasant colour scheme.

Picked up from Ebay Argentina last year and found by Bill comes another incarnation of the Explorer range. This yellow vehicle share a similar cab design to the American model however the leading chassis is different with a raised leading wheel set while the trailing vehicle has a mounted turret, the first piece of weaponry Ive seen on a Explorer Toy! The vehicle is stamped GALGO on the underside and not SuperToys Inc. This version is made of a much cheaper plastic.