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?

Plastic Fantastic!

 These pics were all sent to me by readers nearly a decade ago. They've all appeared here before, a rich assortment of classic space plastic and the odd rarity. 

I liked them so much I'm reshowing them again. 

Anything you like? 

The Rings of Power are Back!

 Being a huge fan of Prime's The Rings of Power I was genuinely excited watching Season 3, which aired globally yesterday.

Prime offered four new episodes of the Tolkien saga and I watched them all. 

They were brilliant.

The show stealers for me are the tall Nazgul, with huge iron crowns, caged faces and black cloaks. Welding enormous swords they do a good job of depicting JRR's terrifying ring wraiths. 

Set a thousand years before The Lord of the Rings, I look forward to the rest of season 3, whenever that is. 

Are you watching? 

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