I liked this sleek red pencil sharpener rocket I saw on Worthpoint.
It recalls the SpaceX NOVA toy a little.
Wotan has one in his collection and has blogged it before.
Has anyone got any space-related or sci-fi or monster pencil sharpeners?
I've got a wind-up robot which is also a pencil sharpener.
ReplyDeleteEvery robot needs a job Kid! Is the clockwork the sharpening mechanism too?
DeleteNot quite sure, I'd have to take another look at it. Forget where it is at the moment though.
DeleteFound it - just posted a couple of pictures of it on my blog. And yes, the key goes into the same hole where you place your pencil. (No, that isn't a euphemism.)
DeleteCheers Kid, will check it out tonight over a curry and a beer.
DeleteOh wow! I had two of these as a kid! A white one with green rings and I think yellow with red rings.
ReplyDeleteI had completely forgotten about them until I saw this post.
Thanks for another childhood memory!
Sounds ace Looey! Wonder where we got stuff like this from as kids. Toy shops? Very Spacex. This red one looks like a lipstick. Reminds of the Triang Nova or the LT10 Transporter.
DeleteI used to go to The Vineyard Juniors School in Richmond. Just around the corner was a sweetshop run by Mrs. Sell a terrifying figure (although I guess she had to put up with a frenzy of schoolkids twice a day!)
DeleteI bought those rocket sharpeners there, along with Cherilea Mechanoids, gold nugget chewing gum and You only Live Twice Gum cards (the ones with the clear celluloid film strips included!) Apart from sweets she sold small toys and up on the high shelves, bigger ticket items like tin toy robots.
Did you have a hang-out store?
Richmond London, not Yorkshire where I am I take it Looey? A shop run by Mrs. Sell! ha ha. What an apt name. And you got Mechanoids! Wow! I once sold one of those far too cheaply at a toy fair as I didn't know what it was! I know now! Gold Nugget? Was that in little cotton sacks? I loved that stuff, along with sweet tobacco and chocolate cigarettes! My own local novelties shop was Ridings Newsagents in Ashton, Preston, as well as The Penny Shop for my sweets! Great days.
DeleteI was thinking of a bullet, or an artillery shell, but it could just as easily be a lipstick.
ReplyDeleteOf course, a bullet or a shell Paul. Youre right!
DeleteIve still got one of these and a different rocket one too as well as a fragile TB1 sharrpener - theyre on the blog somewhere
ReplyDeletefrom the days when even pencils could be rockets Wote eh. Do you think today's SpaceX mission will re-ignite public interest in space?
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