Action Man Moving Scene with Patient and Medic

 Here's my old photo

Hope you like my new clip

Sunshine Family's Alien Friend

 I've always like toy recycling. Both my own and especially by toy companies.

One obscure bit of recycling you can see online in places like Plaid Stallions is the Sunshine/ Zython body.

Zython is this little-known and even less-seen green alien plastic figure, which Mattel released as part of their Space: 1999 range.

The Sunshine Family was an early generic wholesome doll line, also by Mattel, in the early to late Seventies.

It was a whole new world of sunshine! 

When Mattel came to garnish their TV line-up of Space: 1999 action dolls with another alien they thought, hmmm, what about the Sunshine Family! 

Here's the basic body they had.

And from behind.

Nothing alien about that, unless of course, we colour it green! Bob a strange head on and voila! Sunshine super being!

I give you Zython!

Have you any good recycling examples readers? 

Time to Go Home Moonbasers!

That's all folks!

Hope you enjoyed our 

17th 

bloggiversary!

Thanks for stopping by!

Next year we'll be 18 and ready to leave home! 

😴

BARBIE'S DREAM VIPER

 More Battlestar Galactica merchandise? Thankfully, no. This intriguing example of 3D art was  done by talented New Zealand model maker and 3D artist, Natalie Stevens.

Natalie has also applied the Barbie look to a selection of other Sci-fi toys, including  a Star Trek: The Next Generation Dream Shuttlecraft, A Dream Blade Runner Spinner, and a Dream  Dune Sandworm!

Would I buy it if it was real? Of course I would!

Bloggiversary Late Night Creature Feature: Aurora and Penn Plax's Creatures from the Black Lagoon

Hi Woodsy,

You and Bill recently came up with a brilliant new box for the Penn Plax Creature From The Black Lagoon. This Aerating Action Monster was intended to keep the water in a home aquarium full of oxygen.

Some readers were wondering how close the Penn Plax Creature was to the famous Aurora plastic kit. Their poses are certainly very similar, although the bases are different.

A look on Worthpoint turned up several Creatures, but not all the packaging says Penn Plax, so I do not know if they are the same model or not ? Some Penn Plax have a plain rock base; and some have a larger base, with a lot of plastic marine plants.

Aurora actually did two Creature kits. The first was in 1/8th scale, and showed the Creature standing on a base, with a lizard.

This kit first appeared in 1963, and was later re-issued with Glow-in-the-Dark parts. After Aurora folded, the moulds were acquired by Monogram, and the kit has since been re-released under various brand names.

In 1975 Aurora released another line of kits, called Monsters of the Movies. This included a smaller, 1/12th scale version of the Creature.

This time he is swimming underwater. This model has not been re-issued as often as the larger 1/8th scale version.

Of the two different Aurora kits, the standing figure is the larger, in 1/8th scale, while the swimming figure is the smaller version, in 1/12th scale.

Looking at the two Aurora kits, the larger model is closest to the Penn Plax aquarium version. There seems to be some lee-way in the positioning of the arms, but the Penn Plax version is articulated in the middle, which was not a feature of the Aurora kit.

Four photographs from Worthpoint, showing the Penn Plax and Aurora models.

Don't have nightmares!

Paul Adams from New Zealand

 Komplex

Birthday Bobs: Bob Aucutt and Bob Burns Collaborations

Woodsy,

Some pictures of a few of Bob Burns' original film costumes.

plus Bob's review of my creation result!

This picture down is a treasure...18ft painting by Chesley Bonnestell for the sequence from "Destination Moon" when they first opened the rocket's hatch, and gazed at the vista of the Moon. 

I took some high resolution pics of that myself. I hope it ends up in a major museum some day. Stars were backlit, but needed new bulbs.

Flash Gordon was another project Bob helped on.

Regards,

Bob Aucutt