The Day of the Attic

Secret Sam took the call in his attic office.

The Moonbase toy collection had to be protected at all costs. Stop.

The mission is go! You're on your own Sam.

Over and out.

Mystery Badge

We've stopped off for a pizza lunch in the lovely Yorkshire market town of Malton.

Mooching the second-hand shops I saw a box of old badges at a pound each. Nothing I needed. There were Clarks Commandos, modern Thunderbirds and an unusual one with a sort of ECG blip on it. Bottom centre in the pic.

Anyone recognise it? 

Kelloggs Sugar Smacks: Space Mission Badges Ad

Courtesy of the British Film Institute:

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-kelloggs-sugar-smacks-space-mission-badges-1970-online 

Anyone got these badges?

TONY JAMES R.I.P.

 Sad to hear that Tony James, who created Comet Miniatures, and ran Timeless Hobbies online has passed away.

Tony was a familiar face at the many Smallspace events. He was certainly a popular guy with everyone, always bringing along a vast array of sci-fi kits.

I bought a fair number from him, myself.

Our sincere condolences to his family.

The Electric State

Over the last few years there's been a handful of futuristic series and films on streaming that have mixed tech, robotics and humans startlingly well in my opinion.

Fall Out was one such show, the story of underground human settlements surviving a nuclear winter. The standout character was the mutated sheriff in the badlands.

Then there was the film The Creator, which blew me away with it's ground-searching floodlights emitted from vast government flying craft. Amazing imagery all round.

Recently came The Electric State, which I enjoyed a lot. I know it's a polarising film but I liked the juxtaposition of old tech, ai tech, cyborgs and people. The abandoned amusement park-style zone where old bits dwelled was great. I particularly liked the big ball-headed giant bot in the last battle. At it's heart though was a desperate quest and a vein of sorrow.

This of course has been done before with the film AI many years ago, a film for personal reasons I find difficult to watch, although I think it's a terrific flick.

Last week came the Artifice Girl. Again, whispers of AI's David, together with his longevity as the AI girl outlives it's creator. I didn't see all of it. 

The sentiment that AI robots will outlive us all seems to run through all these films, a machined longevity which brings them nothing but loneliness.

What do you think readers?

MJ's Star Trek Lego Short

https://youtube.com/shorts/GYNjkTUYdoY?si=k7ISm6EIv79dWZG9

in space no one can hear you scream when you stand on a lego brick!

Enjoy!

Marky Bats

Southcoast Base

Honest Trade

 Walking through Hinderwell we spotted  a series of boxes along a garden wall. They turned out to be old second hand paperbacks and lots of them. Cheap as chips, our few dabloons went into the honesty box.

This is what we got. Any good?

I also bagged this old pair of plastic footy nets and players in a Stokesly charity shop for 50p. Anyone recognize them? 

Staithes

The Missus and me are currently enjoying the late May Day afternoon in the small cove village of Staithes on the East Yorkshire coast, a marine gem just up from Whitby on the Teeside borderland. 

We're sat outside the local watering hole, the Cid and Lobster, brushing off Greenfly. There are millions of them swarming round!

Staithes is famous for many things: fine crab sandwiches, tasty kippers, cobble boats, cobble cake and the place where one Captain James Cook cut his teeth on the fishing boats. 

More recently in the mid Noughties national treasure Bernard Cribbins starred in the CBBC show Jacks Old Boat filmed here in Staithes. 

Is it a show you know?