I also took great delight in showing him all the goodies which have been showered upon me for the big day, most notably the piece of original Mike Noble artwork from the Star Fleet strip showing the nuclear ferry ship in all its glory! A veritable feast for the eyes, the artwork is flawless and immaculate and shall find pride of place on Mars Base wall (as soon as I can persuade Mrs Wotan to let me hang it!). I have (hopefully) thanked everyone personally for this amazing gift, but I would just like to reiterate how grateful I am for this singular and very moving present.
The fun didn't stop there either however, as I also received a signed copy of Alan Shubrooks book C21 FX, a Randy Rayder LP from the mighty Woodstock, a wonderful vintage booklet on the Moon landings from Andy, an extremely rare set of acrobat figures from Paul Vreede and a boxed set of Forbidden Planet metal figures from the wonderful P Toad.
But just once more for the road, a massive thank you to Terry, Paul V, Kim, Richard, Hugh, Mike, Arto, Ed, Alan, Andy and to the Woodmeister himself for going to the extraordinary lengths to arrange the bash for me and again for the opportunity to plaster my ugly mush and the inside of my head all over the blog on a daily basis. Its been a pleasure. Muchos gracias, Bill
9 comments:
Obrigado minha amiga espacial! My pleasure. Is that bacardi and coke young Will's drinking?
Really jealous of your acrobats - we had them when we were kids, with a horse if I remember well. I saw a set of them in German packaging (I think they were Playcraft over here? But it might have been Merit) at a show in Herne a few years ago, and thought "no, I can't be buying infant toys at my age!"...regretted it ever since.
Kinder also made a set of teeny-tiny ones when they first started in the 1970's!
'Repitesse'...The nagging doubt that you should have bought something at a show, which keeps coming back to haunt you!
Looks like Xmas morning Wote! Yehaa! Roll on 51!
Aren't those cool stackrobats [I should patent that!] by Rapheal Lipkin, he of Pippin Spacex fame? In fact I think his patent for them is somewhere on the blog?
Hey Maverick,
I don't suppose you took a picture of that German set of Acrobates? I'd love to see it if you did.
Cheers
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Paul
Sorry Paul, it was three or four years ago and I only dreamed of Digital Cameras, that's half what I kick myself for, not even taking notes...re. RL other Paul; I think you're right, I think I found the page too, maybe you guys blogged it?
'Rhant'...Complaintative elephant!
thats the odd thing about the Acrobates/Funny Men, they are infant toys, but also represent a classic moment in toy design. Such a simple thing, but a sophisticated design. The set i got has the Horse too!
Sorry for the late response, but happy to know you had a super time, Wote!
Just a thought ... but would you be able to make an MP3 version of the LP for the blog?
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