8217 Delta Glider

Mattel’s Big Jim Action Set No. 8217 (Assortment 9408), released in Europe in 1976, is a vintage outfit commonly catalogued by specialist dealers as the Delta Glider set. The sealed presentation shows a red-and-light-blue one-piece suit, a pair of blue shoes, and two pieces of matching blue protective headgear; the Big Jim figure itself is explicitly not included. No hang glider is contained in the box, making this reference an equipment outfit rather than a vehicle set. The packaging belongs to the multilingual European Action Set range used by Mattel during the mid-1970s. Some later databases reuse reference 8217 for a 1980 astronaut outfit, so this 1976 version should be identified by its red-and-light-blue suit and blue accessories within a Big Jim vintage collection.