I've been Transported!

 I'm seeing SpaceX rocket transporters again! 

It's what happens when the toy remains so hidden! Here's the tantalizing illustration of the original courtesy of Bill and Paul V.

Browsing last night I came across this gorgeous set of American stamps, Future Mail Transportation. 

I love the wedged Mail Vehicle but the Surface Rover is something else! 

Here's its first day cover from 1989. Wonder if that Rover came in yellow? 

But this does!

Now that's a flat loader! 

If only it had a cab!

This one does! 

Maybe a little yellow metalwork?

Here's some! Well, it's a ladder at least!

Close but no cigar!

If only that cab was on top! 😀

My Fabulously New FAB1!

 Having saved up £150 I treated myself to a big toy car in the summer!

It's the Aime 1/18 scale die-cast FAB1.

All the way from China with free postage, here's the outer box.

The inner styrene case.

The tissue.

And the huge car in all its detailed glory! 

I don't own many new toys but I just had to have this, the best of my Lady P fleet now.

What do you think? 

Early Trimming Up

We had a chippy tea with an elderly friend last week. 

She'd felt festive and trimmed up for Christmas! 

It has to be the earliest trimming up I've seen

You?

Card Larks

 There's a load of sorcery here. That artwork looks too good to have been commissioned for this Galaxy Warriors toy gun. 

Any ideas where it's from?

And this cap gun card art looks suspicious. Who is that blond vested chap? And is that Princess Leia squatting with the rifle? 

Arto's Ices: Finnish Plastic Ice Cream Containers

Inspired by Terry's Tonibell Miniball post, attached a photo of various Finnish plastic ice cream containers from the Sixties: three colour combinations of Pingo penguins, two variants of Noppa dice, and a Peikko troll ice cream container.

Arto

Helsinki Base

Tonibell Miniball | Museum of Design in Plastics

Woodsy,

Its a museum piece of art. 

What’s it worth guvnor?

https://www.modip.ac.uk/artefact/aibdc-009384

Terry H.

Exhausted Again

Further to my exhausted musings last week, Thanks to Las Vegas Base Ed here's a close up of the SWORD Booster Rocket exhaust, the red bit usually hidden. Thanks Ed! 

Zooming in on the left, here's a comparison with the Jet Star pistol collar.

SWORD

Jet Star

Here's the Jet Star pistol in full.

Like Looey said, no cigar and this proves it! 

I wonder if it fits in the SWORD Booster though! Ha ha. I can't stop! 

Bryan Adams's Summer Of 69: What's that Monster?

https://youtu.be/9f06QZCVUHg?is=9y3taPH5xIUJnANZ 

Just seen this rockin' music video on TV.

What's the sci fi movie playing at the drive-in around 1.07 minutes in?