Han in Carbonite: Jabba the Puzzle

Another North Cave find, Han in Carbonite.

Jabba's punishment, to turn Solo into a slide puzzle! 

I used to spend hours playing with these in the Sixties and early Seventies.

 I always needed two Hans! 😆

Have you any Carbonite toys?

Top Hats and Dinghies

 Again at North Cave Sunday market I bagged this little plastic top hat. Do the letters HH mean anything to you?

It was part of an Action Man bundle I brought home. There's some West German Big Jim prospector in there too. 

The dinghy, which feels too small for Action Man maybe, is branded Kid Dimension 1994. Did they do stuff for smaller soldiers, say 8 inch?

The glossy purple helmet has me stumped as well. Anyone? 

Brains for Breakfast

 These little old fellas were nestling in a bag of old soldiers I picked up, along with a Matador.

Breakfast Brains and atomic Spacemen. 

I do like that more romantic sense of spacesuitery in the Fifties. Do you. 

Ed's Hogwarts Express

Woodsy,

Here's some photos of my entry level Lionel Set #7-1198 Hogwarts Express. Lionel makes several Hogwarts Express sets in different sizes and with different features, with this being the cheapest and least accurate of them all.

 The engine in the more expensive command-control LionChief set I'm running this year is a Mills Class with a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement, while this really cheap toy version is closer to an A1/A3 Class with 2-6-2 wheel arrangement (I got that info from a YouTube reviewer so if I'm wrong let me know). You can see the cheap set running on my Y'allTube video:

Starting This Year's Christmas Layout: Running Lionel's Basic Batt Op Hogwarts Express Set #7-1198

The set consists of an engine and tender, two differently numbered coaches, and an oval of track. The engine is battery operated and even has a sound - a few limited repeating phrases. I've found that many of these low-end battery-operated train sets can actually run on 3-rail O-gauge track, and in fact, they run better on standard track than they do on the plastic stuff.

From Hogsmeade Vegas

Ed

An Extremely Rare Airplane

The Museum of Flight in Seattle has an impressive collection of aircraft.

All pictured here with information about both the type in general and their example in particular: https://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and-events/aircraft/

Civil and military, old and new (they have a Blackbird and a Concorde on show, to name but two). 

But the absolutely rarest gem must be this:

(image from their website, used here for non-commercial purposes)

Here's what it says on the sign:

https://www.museumofflight.org/Exhibits-and-Events/Aircraft/Wonder-Womans-Invisible-Plane

Paul V.

Terranova's Radios

Have I any novelty radios?

Back in the late 1980's Radio Shack or TANDY in the UK, had a novelty radio shaped like one of their dry cell batteries though it was powered by a 9v rectangular battery.

Around the same time a breakfast cereal, GOLDEN CRISP had a mail in offer for a small sports radio that only picked up a limited range of radio stations.

Both still work.

Terranova

USA

The cereal, Golden Crisp, is much like the UK's SUGAR SMACKS of Joe 90 fame.

Have you any novelty radios? 

Who's on Patrol?

This is a new one on me. Kabaya Space Patrol. I wonder if it originally had wheels? 

I like it though.

Do you? 

Up and Under, In and Out

 Tried a new venue for us this morning, and indoor car boot sale on Featherstone junior rugby club.

I got a decent haul of interesting bits going for a song.

See anything you like?

2 house construction sets, like Lego. Age?

In Car games set. Looks like the Seventies to me.

Drawing stencils from 1974, two old dolls and a ciggy lighter top in the shape of a Greek helmet I'd say.

First day covers, Beatrix Potter, Dr.Who and James Bond.

This is my first post with a new mobile phone. Hope it works!