I didn't find any space toys in Reykjavik but I did find a few goodies. I spotted these small plastic speedboats in the
Arbaer Open Air museum's children's area scattered about and carded (pictured below) for kids to actually open up and play with! Sacrilege! I then stumbled across a whole pile of loose ones in the brilliant
FRIDA FRAENKA antique shop and proceeded to purchase five. The shop was stuffed to the rafters with Sixties retro stuff and plastic toys all 'Made in England', particularly COMBEX (which I knew from
Famous Monsters of Legend figures fame) bagged and boxed toys including trade boxes! Sadly no space toys but lots of plastic cats and Noddy soap-dish boats. The little catamaran is a deadringer for a larger plastic Sixties battery-operated one I have somewhere - to be continued!
Above - carded 'Miniature Motorboats' Made in Hong Kong
We'd heard that the
KOLAPORTID weekend fleamarket was good so we tootled off to have a gander. I found this great old 'Hell Master' coin bank - above- to add to my monster toys collection, which actually originates from
SMIFFYS of Gainsborough in the UK! The blue and yellow digger was bought in the remote fishing town of
STYKKISHOLMUR - it sort of reminded me of a SPACEX
SURVEYOR - a summer modelling project maybe!
And finally some Icelandic sweeties! the very topical 'Appolo' liquorice (OK, its spelt differently!), Dracula liquorice pills and the sticky Ris Buf marshmallow cakes. Mmmmmm! Mmmore on Icelandic sweets
here.
I didn't find any space toys in Reykjavik but I did find a few goodies. I spotted these small plastic speedboats in the Arbaer Open Air museum's children's area scattered about and carded (pictured below) for kids to actually open up and play with! Sacrilege! I then stumbled across a whole pile of loose ones in the brilliant FRIDA FRAENKA antique shop and proceeded to purchase five. The shop was stuffed to the rafters with Sixties retro stuff and plastic toys all 'Made in England', particularly COMBEX (which I knew from Famous Monsters of Legend figures fame) bagged and boxed toys including trade boxes! Sadly no space toys but lots of plastic cats and Noddy soap-dish boats. The little catamaran is a deadringer for a larger plastic Sixties battery-operated one I have somewhere - to be continued!
Above - carded 'Miniature Motorboats' Made in Hong Kong
We'd heard that the KOLAPORTID weekend fleamarket was good so we tootled off to have a gander. I found this great old 'Hell Master' coin bank - above- to add to my monster toys collection, which actually originates from SMIFFYS of Gainsborough in the UK! The blue and yellow digger was bought in the remote fishing town of STYKKISHOLMUR - it sort of reminded me of a SPACEX SURVEYOR - a summer modelling project maybe!
And finally some Icelandic sweeties! the very topical 'Appolo' liquorice (OK, its spelt differently!), Dracula liquorice pills and the sticky Ris Buf marshmallow cakes. Mmmmmm! Mmmore on Icelandic sweets here.
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