Robo Ball

I saw this a while back, all new to me. Like a robot armadillo, it looks intriguing. Somewhere a battery inserts. I guess the toy rolls and unrolls. Does anyone know? 

It's a Robogoron Gakken Robot Ball from Japan 1985.

I've seen that inner unit before I'm sure. They look like tin panels.

Talking Batmobiles! The Taped Crusader!

 Some toy Batmobiles talk.

I know, I had one.

I think it was the one auctioned here, the left car with the huge bulb canopies.

I remember taking mine apart to get the little record to play again.

Not sure what the other batmobile is. Mego?

Did your batcar talk?

Captions Needed!

This pic is crying out for some MoonBase wit.

Do your worst. 

Greenland 2: Stagnation

I do love a good disaster movie. The sub-genre of extinction level meteor strikes is a particular favourite, from Deep Impact right up to Greenland with that burly Scot Gerard Butler.

This week I caught the sequel to Greenland, Greenland Migration (no spoilers here) on Prime. 

I was genuinely excited. The Missus watched it too. I thought after five years in the bunker there would be some interesting stuff going on.

It was OK. Entertaining enough. But for some reason I was disappointed. I dunno, the actors just didn't seem to have their heart in it and I found the whole affair a bit of a mess. Maybe I was having an off-day and a second helping might taste better.

Have you seen Greenland Migration? 

The Cylon Action Figure Tank: More Mystery!

Even more cylonanigans! Based on the full-size Battlestar Galactica show tank I posted earlier, here's a toy version! 

Is this a custom one-off? Did Mattel release it? 

https://youtu.be/uBktIuX1VYI?si=htYBF_5NsKyFNqJa 

The Cylon Tank Mystery!

This is something I had no idea about. A full size Cylon tank show prop. Has anyone seen it? Do you like it?

https://youtu.be/VZRZX8ZAE0M?si=lqinfcUK_J4e0Eu9 

The Treehouse of Horror

Well I ticked another thing off my list of stuff to see this morning. Purely by chance I caught The Simpsons Halloween special, The Treehouse of Horror on TV, after watching Frasier.

For years I've seen cards, comics, toys and all sorts from this special but never the thing itself.

I used to watch the Simpsons when it first came out but stopped. It was fun seeing the Treehouse though, I enjoyed all the horror references, especially the famous Twilight Zone episode with the monster on the plane's wing. Was that William Shatner? 

There was lots of stuff from Coppola's Dracula too, with the distinctive double bee-hive hairdo. Oddly enough, I thought Treehouse was older than that. I'm not sure when it was made.

Anyways, job done. I've seen it now. Have you readers?

T in Space

 T Toys aka T in a Circle aka Tai Hing toys made some gorgeous space toy vehicles in the Sixties.

Hong Kong forerunners of Project SWORD, you can clearly see echoes of the Moonbus in this plain titled Space Vehicle. Those are the Moonbus pilots too!

Here's a nice white and red version too, along with its box, of which there are variants.

T in a Circle did release the SWORD Moonbus, eventually picked up and rebranded by Century 21 Toys.

Have you any Hong Kong T?