With the Missus and a mate, visiting my favourite vintage toy shop round here, in Kirkham Arcade in Otley, I was really pleased to bag a few great collectables for the Moonbase collection.
The haul comprised of a smart loose JR21 FAB1, a neat re-issue Corgi Black Beauty and an Action Man Rifle Rack along with the golden grenade launcher. I had all of these as a kid and it was great to get them back and a snip at £30 the lot.
In the town's charity shops I bagged an old hardback copy of Brave New World, a paperback horror by Shaun Huston and a hardback Adventure Annual with Pyro toy designs on the cover.
My final item was a cool multi-rotational tin globe. It rotates on two axes!
All in all a great day out.
What do you reckon?
More on all of them to follow.
A FAB haul, Woodsy :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Tone. I'm enjoying cleaning my new stuff!
DeleteA nice haul, especially the annual, and the two cars. That tinplate globe looks interesting too.
ReplyDeleteThe annual is interesting. It's been on MC before years ago. The cover art, front and rear, and inside strip contains spaceships released by Pyro as toys. I assume the toys came first.
DeleteThe robot on the cover of the book is based on the one used by Merit for their Magic Robot game in the sixties. He was originally made by Archer Plastics
ReplyDeletehttps://tomsk3000.com/product/1953-the-amazing-magic-robot-j-l-randall-ltd-england/ Bill
Cheers Bill, memory lane for us this, as I recall a discussion years ago on MC about the robot. The spacemen look like Archer too. The inside strip based on the robot and spaceships is really good with fantastic artwork.
DeleteI would guess the artist just used the toys as reference material when doing the artwork ? I recall there was also a children's book with various road vehicles in it, that used Dinky Toys in the same way. Tootles the Taxi , a Ladybird book.
ReplyDeleteI may have Tootles!
DeleteNice copy of Brave New World! SFZ
ReplyDeleteIt is SF. 1970's. Ex Libris.
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