The Auckland Lion's Club had their book fair recently. I got three books in all, on British films, guns - mainly antique types, and a biography of a pilot who was in the RNZAF during WW2 so some WW2 coverage.
I got four CDs. The Shirelles and the Shangri-Las (both all-girl singing groups of the 1960s), Blondie Greatest Hits, Vintage British Comedy Vol.3 with the likes of Arthur Askey and Stanley Holloway.
Then on to the market. Got a total of 18 die-casts at three different tables, for $35 NZ.
Five Matchbox Sky-Busters aircraft, and a Tonka helicopter (the red and yellow one in the photo). The plastic P-38 Lightning I have already sent you a couple of photos of.
The mixed photo shows a small die-cast Mirage, an unknown tank, and an old Lone Star Treble-O railway carriage, but this is missing its roof.
The group shot shows a large Hot Wheels truck, three Corgi Juniors, three more Hot Wheels, and a 1970s Matchbox truck.
The last photo is a close-up of the Hot Wheels Fast Fortress, which is a custom car version of the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress heavy bomber. This came out in 2007, but the blue version is from 2009.
Paul Adams
NZ
I like the Firefox in the white, I didn't realise there was "any" merch for this film
ReplyDeleteThanks, that reply gave me a shock, and I have just had a quick look. I had not spotted the connection, but it has been a long time since I saw the movie. The Matchbox Sky-Buster model is not officially a model of Firefox, but it is certainly very similar. I will take some more photos of it, and send them in to Woodsy. That will give some clearer views of the model on its own.
ReplyDeleteIs Firefox the flick with my old fave Roy Schneider in it playing the pilot? I sold a few copies of the hardback back in the day when I stocked film tie-in books on my toy stall.
ReplyDeleteClint Eastwood was the pilot and the always bonkers Freddie Jones the boffin who painstakingly explains to think in Russian to activate the weapon systems
DeleteGreat haul, and worth it just for the Fast Fortress! Good gosh, what a surreal contraption that is!
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