Captain Felicity Bliss
Engineer Tatiana Rocketov
PRODUCT HISTORY
Premiered: 2009 Edition: Sold out / Discontinued / Will not be reissued
By the mid 2000 Retro Collectibles were at their height. The scramble for licences from the most obscure television shows and films going back decades was well under way.
There wasn't a property that hadn't been mined, from King Kong and Buck Rodgers to the shows of Irwin Allen and Rodger Corman. Even a range of products from the 1974 soft porn Sci Fi comedy Flesh Gordon!
With the idea of creating our own unique property, we embarked on designing and developing a range inspired by our love of 50's Sci Fi nostalgia. The premise being to see what the world would look like today if the promises of 1940's and 1950's Sci Fi Movies and TV had come true.
So began the development of Space Vixens - The future - Back in Fashion. Never send a man to do a woman job! An elite team of female fighters, headed up by Captain Felisity Bliss, are defending the earth against the Evil Veil Draganza who is hell bent on stealing the men of earth to re-populate her sterile planet... Think Carry On meets Star Maidens!
The classic retro looks of 1950's science fiction was something most fans had an appreciation of and would hopefully buy into the range based solely on how fantastic the designs were.
With sculptor Andrew Teal, we set about designing the lead character of Felicity Bliss incorporating everything about this period fans could relate to and found appealing.
Original designed as an articulated 12inch Action figure to utilize the body tooling of our Emma Peel and Gay Ellis figures, it was decided to release Felicity as a Deluxe Statue setting her in an alien planet diorama to completely capture the details, quality and beauty of the design.
Launched at New York Comic Con in 2009, the range was supplemented with T-shirts, badges, Replica Space Vixens Ray Guns as well as previewing the next release - Tatiana Rocketov and the announcement of a forthcoming comic book based on the back story.
The response was mixed. People loved the statue of Felicity Bliss, but then wanted to know what film or TV series she was from. It was strange, collectors loved the product, but didn't want to purchase it because they couldn't relate it to anything. The fact that it was a standalone thing of beauty didn't seem to help.
Ultimately, the statues that were produced sold, but the range was abandoned, and no further products produced.
