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It's Mattel branded but I have a feeling Spectra was more common in mainland Europe. Is that right?
Arco's Rogun is a mystery to me
Is it a toy robot or something else?
Anyone come across a Rogun?
I recently overheard someone talking about eggs in a basket - or even a blanket, which if I'm right is toast with a hole in where a fried egg goes. The bread might even be fried rather than toasted.
It reminded me of how much I loved egg bread as a kid. This was white bread dipped into a scrambled egg mix and lightly fried. Totally delicious, it's also known as french toast and no doubt has many different names. What is it called where you are?
Egg bread for me was always a savoury, something that you might even season with salt and pepper, but for my Missus, who grew up elsewhere, it was sugared and was a sweet.
What do you do with eggs and bread readers?
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This is the US Saturn 5 plastic toy model released by Countdown circa 1969.
At first glance you could mistake it for the Century 21 Toys Cape Kennedy toy.
I understand that the Countdown model was available at Cape Kennedy itself.
Does anyone have one?
The big river running to our coast is the Humber.
One of Britain's biggest, its a vast dark vein of water, bristling with turbines, draining Yorkshire into the cold forbidding North Sea, which separates old Blighty from the European Continent.
I love the Humber and enjoy time spent on it.
Here are a few snaps.
Looking across to Lincolnshire
Like many of you I have a few collections on the go. Completing them is always the tricky part. There's always a stubborn rump of items, which evade capture.
Such is the case with my collection of 1960's plastic friction Hong Kong novelties.
I'm missing five and I wondered if you had any of them by chance?
Boxes aren't essential, loose examples are fine, even ones in bits. Equally should you see an inexpensive one at a sale or toy fair it would be great to hear from you.
I can also trade vintage toys too.
Anyways, here are the stubborn five.
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Bunny and Bunny Jr.
( Forget the duck!)
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I like this, seen on auction. Made in England by Kim Toys, a brand new to me, the Space Flyer. The blurb mentions a catapult, which may be missing.
The astronaut is fabulous. With the bell jar helmet and stylized body it's straight from the atomic age.
There's two other great looking vehicles in the card art too.
Anyone got one or similar?
It's Sunday afternoon here in the UK. Late Spring and it's warm. The missus and I are drinking coffee and eating cake with an elderly friend.
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If it's Sunday still or Sunday gone, what are you doing or what did you do readers?
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This is a neat and slick silver-coloured toy rocket from Poland I saw online.
You may have a JR21 rocket which is very similar.
Anyone got any rockets like this?
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Some more flicks seen of late. Have you seen them?
The Island. A vehicle for beautiful young things Ewan McGregor and Scarlet Johannsen to shine in, this sci-fi actioner hit the spot and even the Missus enjoyed it. Basically about the evils of the super-rich, I won't spoil it, suffice to say there are whiffs of 1984, THX and Logan's Run.
The Invasion. Another platform for youthful beauty, this time the golden pair are Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. We had to rent this for £3.50 but it was worth it and pleasant enough whilst scoffing tea. The title is an abbreviated form of two other older iterations of the same idea. As I point my finger at you, my mouth agape, I won't spoil it.
Old. I've come to realise that M.Nite Shyamalan's first name is actually Marmite. Not M.Nite. You either love his films or loathe them. This phenomena can also happen mid-film and it very nearly did in Old. However, the Missus and me carried on and in the end, slightly older, enjoyed it. As you may have guessed the film is about wrinklies like us.
The Skull. I may have mentioned this already, but then again a Cushing-Lee horror is worth screaming about. They're the dogs b*llocks and I love their stuff. Think of Jonny Depp's 13th Gate, replace the grimoire with a skull and you're near the mark. Sort of like extreme toy collectors! What a film!
Horror Express. I often confuse this with the equally brill Creeping Flesh, as they both contain Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and a strange humanoid laid out on a gurney. Chuck in a trans-Siberian train, Rasputin and Telly Savalas and you come out with Hammer horror Kojak verses the Monster.
Rot. A low-point in the listings, this shoestring effort wasn't worth watching but I did and wonder why. There was something about the poster and the name, Rot, which appealed. Alas, the crew would have been better off simply filming a few rats at the local landfill for authentic decay. At least then they could have called the thing Rat.
What have you seen?
I know next to zero about Gatchaman. My mate used to collect Battle of the Planets and I guess they're related.
Part of a recent car boot bundle of cheap tackle were these two Japanese die-casts, which I've ID'd as a Jun motorbike and a Condor Attacker, mainly because that's what it says on them! 😂
Are these toys that you know?
I picked up this little Scalextric set, Starter on Rostrum, for a squid tother day at the boot sale.
In poor shape, I've had fun in the sun untangling the arm string, re-gluing the chap to the rostrum (nearly the wrong way round!), re-attaching some fencing and best of all, ironing the box to stiffen it.
Those clever Scalextric folks made it so that pulling the string raises the arm. I wonder if he held a flag originally?
The silver rocket in today's Deep Purple Piles had me intrigued, so a bit of silver surfing took me to Buyee and Japan.
Turns out it's a rubber!
It seems to accompany gorgeous Thunderbirds vehicle moneyboxes. Not sure what the green bits are. You?
The Japanese love of all things Anderson knows no bounds! It's in their soul!
Such a gorgeous little thing. It always amazes me the piles of stuff SpaceX and it's kin turns up in and often it's Apollo Space Exploring piles like this.
There's a few extras here too, a silver missile, a grey Enola, a TB3 knockoff and even a sleeping Captain America!
Do you have piles like this?
A couple of space theme record covers caught my eye recently.
The Moog Invasion. Not sure which robot that is buts it's part of a long tradition in the Sixties and Seventies to use toys on the covers.
A rocket-powered church steeple and so beautifully done.
I first came across this in Roger's big softback Visions.
What a talent.
Do you like Roger Dean's work?
