How to Train your Pizza!

This is an amazing toy train pizza maker a la Heath Robinson! Thanks to Paul V for the link. 

What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I85afIyu0IU

Will's Hot Shots

Woodsy,

My Hot Shots. The yellow cards are 1971 and the blue cards are 1972. Definitely Redline era.

Will O

Anyone else got Hot Shots?

Blue Box Space Gliders Japan Style

Wow! Blog friend and keen Japan collector Terry spotted this fab pile of Blue Box style spaceships this year.

How fantastic!

 昭和 レトロ キャノンボール スペース 乗り物 まとめて 倉庫品 宇宙 

Cornflakes and Hot Milk!

I remembered the other day that I had cornflakes as a kid with .... Hot milk! 

The memory came flooding back. The milk was creamy too and heated up it left a sort of bubble scum on the flakes in the bowl. 

Not sure I could eat it now, deffo not with creamy milk. Semi-skimmed maybe!

Hot Milk was also poured over Weetabix, which was better I think. The two went together really well, all sugared up.

Don't think Sugar Puffs or even Shredded Wheat got the hot milk treatment though. Of course Ready Brek was made for it, the best of all, central heating for kids! 

Did you enjoy hot milk on your cereals readers? 

Mattel's Hot Shots Anyone?

I've not been able to find a TV ad for Mattel's vintage Hot Shots online. I saw one recently, Heat Wave, a dragster, in an antique shop and thought it looked really well-designed and not a range I know at all.

Here's a short introductory gallery to the toys by a collector I found  on You Tube. The backing music is noisy so maybe turn it off. The toy vehicles look great tho. I love that long motorbike!

Did you have Hot Shots? Do you like them? Would you class them as Redlines?

https://youtube.com/shorts/7iZBKSLJWbs?si=z-noonnQ2pACtbDt 

Mystery Spanish SpaceX

Being a fan of knockoff SpaceX toys I was intrigued by two which appeared on Spain's Todocollecion.

I'm used to seeing Bullycan's Aviones Cosmicos there but the seller thought the pair maybe another vintage Spanish brand well-known for simple plastic toys,namely Montaplex.

All my Aviones Cosmicos is in storage so I can't really compare them to the pictures.

See what you think, images from Todocollecion.

Estes Excalibur

Wow! What a design!

Do you like it!

https://www.rocketreviews.com/estes-patrol-cruiser-excalibur-larry-zeilmann.html 

Globe Making by Hand

Hi Woodsy,

Another batch of British Pathe films, this time from 1949 (in black and white) and 1955 (in colour), on the making of globes.

 From a wooden sphere, covered in paper, nine layers of plaster, segments of map being glued in place, and a final spray coat of varnish – all done by hand.

Globes were expensive, and you can see why once you realise the amount of labour and hand finishing involved in making them. Pathe packed a lot in to these short films.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldUnXrZYfY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RWcWSN4HhI

Another look at modern globe making, which is still impressive. But a lot more mechanised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgErv6M19yY

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Have you got a globe?