Monday, 21 July 2025
Custom SpaceX Moonbase Box and Board
Thursday, 17 April 2025
One Man Custom: My Home-Made Johnny Seven
Since childhood and my parents giving me a Johnny Seven one Christmas I've always loved this classic Topper toy rifle.
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2018/04/rebuilding-johnny-seven-one-man-army.html?m=1
And so to the present. Having finished my Secret Sam rifle recently I was looking for something else to make, when I came across a bunch of old Nerf guns at the Thorpe Arch boot sale. Bingo! £4 later I had my raw materials for making a ........
..... Johnny Seven!
A couple of home-made missiles completed the look.
Phew! Boy, was it fiddly but lots of Topper fun!
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Next up, Redbox Secret Agent.
Sunday, 6 April 2025
The Secret's Out: My Custom Topper Secret Sam Rifle and Attaché Case
As a young agent I adored my Secret Sam attache case by Topper.
The black plastic case contained all the parts to make the secret rifle, together with a high scope, a message missile and camera.
The camera and toy bullet-firing pistol could be operated even when the case was shut!
The camera actually took real pictures!
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
The Gun of the Golden Agent: Moonbase Mock-Up
When we were young 'uns my older brothers and me had stuff lying all over the house. One of these things, not mine, was a die-cast golden cap revolver.
It was probably bought by my older brother mail-order from Ellisdons of Liverpool.
I've never forgotten that golden toy cap gun.
Back Round 1992 I got a copy of Bill Breugman's amazing Toys of the Sixties. And bingo! There inside was what I think that toy was, the Gun of the Golden Agent by Hubley.
You can see it in the book, bottom left, here in a video I did 10 years ago, around the 5.18 minutes mark.
https://youtu.be/OtG-TGgCJFI?feature=shared
Further images online are scant to say the least, a search today revealing only these Hubley 1965 trade catalogue shots.
Saturday, 29 March 2025
The Man from Uncle Cane Pistol: our Custom Toy Job
Continuing our custom reproductions of carded spy toys, here's our version of the Man from Uncle Cane Pistol by Marx.
Bill created the stunning graphics from stills on Hakes auctions (see bottom) and I fashioned the cane from a litter grabber. A label and some glued-on bits, the set was completed with red beads giving the impression of the ammo.
Here you go, UNCLE's cane pistol a la Moonbase International. Hope you like it.
Sunday, 23 March 2025
It's Alive! My Overnight Remco Mini Monsterizer
Last year I rescued some trash from Aldi, a bunch of plastic toothbrush displays.
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PROJECT SWORD SPACEX TIMELINE
- 1968 SPACEX LT10 CONCEPT
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER REAL THING
- 1969 LUNAR CLIMBER & MOONSHIP
- 1968 PROJECT SWORD ANNUAL
- 1968 TV21 #168 PROJECT SWORD PHASE 2
- 1968 PLEASURE CRUISER CONCEPT
- 1968 CENTURY 21 TOY MANUAL
- 1967 SCOUT 1 CONCEPT
- 1967 NUCLEAR FERRY TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER CONCEPT
- 1966 HOVERTANK IN COMIC
- 1966 NUKE PULSE NEEDLEPROBE IN COMIC
- 1966 ZERO X FILM DEBUT
- 1966 MOONBUS IN COMIC
- 1966 SPACE PATROL 1
- 1966 P3 HELICOPTER IN COMIC
- 1966 SAND FLEA AND SNOW TRAIN
- 1966 MOBILE LAUNCH PAD IN COMIC
- 1965 SPACEX MOONBASE CONCEPT
- 1965 APOLLO FIRST UK TOY AD
- 1962 NOVA CONCEPT
- 1962 MOONBUS CONCEPT
- 1961 MOON PROSPECTOR CONCEPT
- 1953 MOLAB CONCEPT