GOOD CITATIONS

 Somewhat bored waiting for toy parts to arrive I've been googling SpaceX patents.

I first saw Jack Rosenthal's fabulous US Golden Astronaut patents on my friend's Paul Vreede's lovely SpaceX website, on which they're all there.

https://triangspacextoys.info/SpGApapr/rUSptnts/rUSptnts.html

You can follow up on Google US patents too [there's more than one Jack Rosenthal here!]

https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Jack+Rosenthal

I thought it would be fun to look up the 'Other References' cited on the Cruiser 1 patent [image: Google USPO]

Here are the 'Other References' close up.

I couldn't find an image for Playthings April 1958 but I found the March edition showing the "Knickerbocker Moon Car", seen here top right.

I found Modern Plastics July 1953 and the so called 'space car', pictured at the top.

I couldn't find Technology Week and the 'lifting body' image.

I thought it would be interesting to compare the actual toys.

Golden Astronaut

Knickerbocker

Irwin

Has anyone else looked at any toy patents at all?

Kevin's Dinky Harrier Jet

I Picked this up recently, in remarkably good condition. What a great little toy.

Kevin

UK

The Bandai Sears Supersonic Jetliner

 I've never seen this Bandai tinplate beauty in the flesh. I think it was a Sears Christmas exclusive.

Online auction pictures like these have to suffice but boy oh boy does it look grand!

Has anyone been lucky enough to have one?

The double teardrop cockpit blisters really make it for me. The flattened engines too. It's so Gerry Anderson! What a toy, almost too good to play with!

Do you like it readers?

oh, and here's its US patent diagram online:

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/29/b2/62/ae0439f73b5712/USD193013-drawings-page-1.png

Sugar Puffs Famous Puffers

MC recently mentioned the You Tube channel Cerealmad, which looks at various lines of cereal packet toys. Here is another one, featuring a series of Lenticular cards.

Quaker Sugar Puffs Famous Puffers from 1973, was a series of four cards, which showed a famous steam locomotive moving across the card as you tilted it. The locos moving in three stages.

The Rocket (1829), The Jenny Lind (1849), Central Pacific Locomotive 1867, and The Coronation Scot (1937). A great looking series.

Have you got anything like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzFcXqji03E

Paul Adams from New Zealand

 

Nazgul at the Gates

 A few snaps of my home-made Ringwraith and his dark charger ( borrowed from Sindy!).

It was fun being with them but mordor getting away! 

Enjoy! 

Flight Club

The First Moon Flights Club was a Pan Am gimmick to boost its image by offering future flights to the moon!

The marketing linked to the beautiful Pan Am Clipper in Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey.

This is the back of the Membership card courtesy of Wikipedia, where you can read much more.

It all reminds me of the connections between Gerry Anderson's Century 21 and 2001 A Space Odyssey, which we've covered many times on the blog such as Scoop's https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2022/01/2001-meets-century-21.html

It also recalls the hovercraft ride first prize of a Project SWORD campaign, whereby kids could design a new SWORD vehicle, a campaign which never happened I don't think. It was first posted by the Philosophic Toad in 2012 in MC https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2012/05/tuppence-hapenny-to-neverwas-avin-u.html

Have you come across a good transport marketing gimmick?

A real-life flying car takes to the skies!

This is bonkers! 

A flying car ... At last! 

It's from Alef Aeronautics via the BBC.

What do you think readers?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cx20nwlqe07o 

LOFT PROPERTY

Watching old episodes of Toy Hunter has been fun.

Here's two old IDEAL games that Jordan found in American lofts.

This one, Ideal's Mr. Rembrandt, I don't know but I like it. A sort of Mr. Machine robot combined with Spirograph. It draws shapes as it motors round its paper. How cool is that!

Is it one you know? 

This one I do know, Electronic Detective. At least I know of it. I found two of these in the late 1990's at car boot sales and sold them on. A fabulous 'computer' helps work out who the perps are in a sort of electronic Guess Who.

Is this one you know readers?