UFO detected at Master Replicas!

By John Freeman on 27 July 2026 • ( 0 )

The growing Gerry Anderson line at Master Replicas has expanded again, the company revealing a SHADO Control Mobile from the live action series UFO, a die-cast model with diorama base, expected by the end of 2026.

In the series, SHADO Mobiles would be transported around the world to various UFO landing sites via large container lorries, or aircraft. One Mobile would normally be designated as SHADO Control, complete with large rotating radar dish, while the standard Mobile came equiped with roof mounted retractable cannons and depth charges.

This die-cast model uses the Sixteen 12 SHADO Mobile tooling but also features a radar dish.

Preorders offer the SHADO Control Mobile at a price tag of /£75 in the UK and $75 in the US, and is the same size as the cancellation Product Enterprise / Sixteen12 SHADO Mobile, 17 cm, 6.75″ length, which was never released due to “lack of interest”. Perhaps the $199 price point put fans off.

If you’re interested in this, then you should preorder here, in case “lack of interest “ impacts this model, too.

The SHADO Control Mobile joins a UFO Saucer from Master Replicas also currently on preorder. An “Ed Straker” figure has already been released.

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.