Check out this merch tied into the 1964 TV series Stingray from the UK. It was a Gerry Anderson production similar in style to Thunderbirds. Even though it was off the air in 1965 after 39 episodes, someone thought a skateboard with a Stingray graphic would make some money. There are other Stingray graphics/models from the 60’s and 70’s but they are not related to the TV show. There was however, another licensed Gerry Anderson Stingray board made in the 90’s. In the show, the Stingray was a nuclear-powered combat submarine used by the World Aquanaut Security Patrol to keep the oceans safe.
Here’s the original photos that caught my eye, courtesy of Darron Ward. That’s a 6 color screen print, which is surprising for the time period. Dig the single action trucks.
I found a really nice picture of a Stingray board at Attic City, but it was for an old listing that had been removed. Fortunately the good folks at Urban Americana sent me the originals.
Here’s an advert that originally appeared in at least one issue of the TV Century 21 comic. What issue? I managed to find it in the Internet Archive in issue #28 with a publication date of July 31, 2025. It seems they wanted it to appear like it was from the future. I believe these came out as a newspaper section weekly for a while. The archive says the actual publication date is 1965. This one is cleaned up version of an image originally posted by David Griffith at Vintage toy Central. It’s interesting that they are calling it a scooter-skate and not a skateboard.
THIS JUST IN: I tracked down another photo of a Stingray board on… you guessed it, Skate and Annoy. It’s Singer and actress Joyce Blair, as also seen on Getty Images. These images are from a 1965 promo shoot in Hyde Park, London. They were published again by Time Magazine in 2006 but that feature is no longer online.
The folks at Anderson Entertainment were surprisingly kind enough to respond to my pestering for more information and photos, but unfortunately they did not have anything else to share outside of this photo of a skateboard in the display at a recent exhibit at the Museum of Brands in London. It belonged to a collector and has since been returned. See the very bottom of the display case.
Pester them I did, and they kept giving! They pointed me to an eBay auction selling a 1992 version of a Stingray skateboard. The seller is asking the equivalent of $386 for this in the UK, which seems steep, but then again, there’s no telling how many are out there. The Stingray tie-in adds more value than it would have as just a generic toy store board. That’s probably one of the bad guys Titan on the bottom of the deck, although in this rendition, it immediately made me think of Harvey Birdman’s Mentok the Mind Taker. The 90’s Stingray skateboard was made for MV Sports, a company that is still around. They specialize in licensed toy products, many of which are rideable. Currently licenses include Disney, Marvel, DC, Peppa Pig, Nickelodeon, etc… They currently offer some skateboards with Batman, Spiderman, SpongeBob, Sonic the Hedgehog, the Avengers, TMNT, Jurassic World, Transformers, Nerf (?!), and their in-house brand “Stunted.” They also have a design your own program. They are a distributor and do not sell direct.
Check out the awesome opening sequence for Stingray. This was the first British TV series filmed entirely in color, allegedly to gain traction in the USA.
IYKYK. The legendary Didjits….
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