It's Sat'day night and I'm waiting for the primetime drivel like X-Factor to end so I can watch a monster or sci fi flick! Such is married life at Moonbase! Division of Labour and TV! A second telly would solve the conundrum I hear you say but then I'd never do anything else! I'm happy drinking a beer and browsing my favourite subjects online - Martial Arts in the 1960's and 70's, Monster movies and toys, Prog and Hard Rock and of course, Space and Space Toys! Another toy I saw today up town [I used to go up town every Saturday religiously when I was an older kid] was the cute Bob the Biulder Splasher you can see below in all it's Scramble Bug - like glory! Project B.O.B!
We've looked at Buggy toys before on this blog but there's a cool page of them too over at ToyNerd! Oddly enough I saw a real yellow Argo Cat last week in a garage in Whalley [Lancashire] near Pendle Hill like this one here. They must be so great to zoom over rough ground but a sod to control I bet!
These cats put me in mind of Beach Buggies, another Sixties and Seventies craze - where are they all? Crete? I loved my Matchbox dune buggy, the purple roofed one that looked like someone had flicked yellow paint allover it - below [Zig Die Cast]! I used to race it against a little matchbox purple souped-up mini with a huge exposed engine and a Hot Wheels redline dragster, which I have to say might just be my all-time fave die-cast car along with the larger Lincoln Continental [complete with working clown pic TV] and the ultra-smooth purple Cadillac Eldorado [I liked purple!] If I could have miniaturised myself I would have happily cruised round Toy Town forever in either of them, window down, elbow out and lookin' for the Barbies [female readers I apologise for this crass display of sexism - it is a pop cultural anecdote!]
Not unlike the old AMPHI-CATs which we saw in THE BANANA SPLITS and of course SPACE:1999. Mego did a lovely one for their ACTION JACKSON figure and many garage kit builders have resin or white metal ones. An amazing design!
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Re your Saturday night predicament. In case you haven't found it- If you're as disillusioned with the telly programmes as I am, try typing "classic tv internet archive" into the search engine. The Internet Archive has complete programmes available to view. Inlcludes some curious 50s SF, (look under S in the index for U.S. Space Patrol), some English telly, (invisible man, robin hood etc), and two Quatermass series from the 50s.
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