WILL OSBORNE'S FABULOUS JAMES BOND COLLECTION

Hi Woodsy. It was nice to see some James Bond stuff posted on the blog so I decided to take some pictures of my few bits. 

The third picture is the gold plated corgi DB5, in its gold brick box, signed by Shirley Eaton and Honor Blackman. 

The fifth picture is of my son James when he met Honor Blackman and Ursula Andress. He was only about seven at the time and I don’t think he appreciated it! All the best.

Hope you like them.

Will O.

UK

p.s. I will send a picture of my Gilbert James Bond road race set when I can find it!

PARTY SEVENTIES

Weekending coming up so I'm going to party like its 1971!

A HOOVER TOY NO. 407

This is a new one on me, a rodeo boy by Taiwan toy outfit Hoover, who released some project SWORD clones in the Sixties. Have you got a Hoover toy?

https://rachelsvintageretro.co.uk/product/vintage-plastic-wind-up-toy-rodeo-donkey-cowboy-hong-kong-70s-80s/ 

I WANT YOU TO RACE MR BOND!

With all the posts we've been doing lately on the vintage James Bond Scalextrix sets, I thought I'd invest in a slightly more modern second -hand one. I found a reasonably priced one on eBay which arrived today, and first chance I got I set it up. It comes with extra track, and a couple of Bond slot cars; a 'Goldfinger' Aston Martin DB5, and a 'Casino Royale' Aston Martin DBS. Both the cars have suffered minor knocks but certainly not deal breakers, and the whole thing works fine. I'm thinkinng now I may well invest in a few more Bond slot cars in the future.

FAB, MA'LADY

A few vintage photos from the Surrey Advertiser from 1968, showing FAB 1 in Guildford High Street visiting the Automobile Association Headquarters.

THE DURHAM SNOW BOAT

This is a new one for me and Moonbase. 

The Snow Boat by that prolific plastic toy outfit Durham Industries. Its an unusual vehicle design and I've certainly not seen it before. This example is online on auction.

Durham, like Tarheel, released toys in bright coloured plastic and Durham issued a lime green Space Glider, which is on the blog.

The listing about the Snow Boat explains:

DURHAM INDUSTRIES INC., NY SUPER SNOW BOAT WITH POWER TREADS AND SPARKING EXHAUST. # 8324, MADE IN JAPAN. ABOUT 10 INCHES LONG. BOAT IS MISSING ITS WINDSHIELD.

I can't find a loose one anywhere online.

Do you like what you see?

CAR SPOTTING

Looking out of the hotel window and wondering, is that a Maserati behind that blue Mini? You don't see many of those on the road these days!

JAMES BOND'S VOLCANO SET: THE MISSILE INSIDE

Looking at Looey's recent 007 volcano set he spotted online at jamesbondtoys

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-james-bond-volcano-toy-licence-to.html

I thought, hmmm, I've seen that toy missile launch platform at jamesbondtoys.com before.

I had a hunch that Wotan had something like it in his vast collection and had blogged it.

He had!

and here...

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2013/01/kennedy-capers.html?m=1

Result!

Anyone else got anything like this?