Caveat Bloggor

In the four years since the blog has been running, we and the contributors to the blog have discovered a lot of amazing toys and information relating to those items. Its a real rollercoaster ride of research and accidental discovery and a dip into the wonderful world of nostalgia and memory.

The majority of what I write about tends to be from personal experience, showing examples of the toys and models I have in my own collection, or those which I have seen and been told about. Now and again, we see items which are at best speculative and we have to make an informed decision as to what they may be or where they may fit into the genre. Neither myself or Woodstock claim to be any kind of expert on such matters, although I would defer to him as the 'Lord of Sword' as without his dilligent work over the years, we would not be here today.

Because we display items on the blog which can be rare and occasionally sought after - at least by the blog afficiandos - it is often perceived that certain toys are extremely valuable and desirable. Unfortunately, this seems to have had a very adverse effect on toy pricing in the general market, but most notably on ebay. The other problem is that we sometimes flag up a particularly interesting auction, this is just for information and we are in no way connected to or promoting the goods.

One particularly unpleasant effect of items being featured on the blog occurred recently. There is a section on the main page showing 'Wanted' items and one of the less desirable items on the list appeared on ebay recently. Ordinarily, this wouldn't be unusual, but the seller had obviously looked at the blog and decided that the piece he had would fetch a good price from certain individuals and listed it with a start price of just under a thousand pounds. Needless to say, the auction sailed by without a single bid.

Putting Project SWORD into Google invariably brings up hits from our blog, which can be very irritating when I start getting excited after seeing photos of my own toys appear after a search! This approach seems to be very popular with potential ebayers who have an item to sell and google for similar stuff in order to get a bit of background. Consequently, I have seen two very amusing auctions for 'Project SWORD Astronaut Badge Made by WOTAN' and another for 'Vintage Plastic Astronaut Set Made by Paul Vreede'!

I have to admit to cobbling up a couple of boxes and the odd scratchbuilt model, but I have to a say I havent got a full scale manufacturing plant or a time machine in my back garden!