21 CARROTS

Being an avid fan of JR21 plastic animal toys [I wrote a book about them] I was intrigued when I saw a toy similar to one of the less common ones, the Friction Carrot Eating Bunny.

You can see from these auction pictures that the JR21 bunny has somewhat bent feet as he sits on his scooter.

Linda, another Hong Kong outfit, released a Bugs Bunny on a Scooter, which also has bent feet as he balances on his carrot cart.

Both quite wonderful toys, I hope you like them too.

LINDA TRAVELLING SETS

I've always liked toy cameras. Ever since I got one in the Secret Sam attache case back in the spy-crazy Sixties.

here's a neat set I saw online, Travelling Sets by Linda.

There's a pretty cool camera, sunglasses and binoculars, which appear to slot into the glasses!

I can't tell if its a working camera or whether its just a viewer full of pictures like the one shown.

Did you have a toy camera?

PS. I think we may have come across Linda before. They made Apollo Spacers, knockoffs of Tri-ang Spacex as featured for example in 2018 by Wotan

http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2018/01/mate-is-your-linda-comin.html

Not sure of the two Lindas are the same though. You?

LINDA'S SPACE CAPTAIN FLYING SAUCER

Linda [Hong Kong] is not a toy company I'm very familiar with but I've noticed a few of their toys online over the past few years. One that caught my eye is their "Space Captain Flying Saucer with Catapult" pictured here on its original shop display card [right]. The toy appears to be flying disc reminiscent of a space station.

The header art is particularly lovely and shows the space station tie-in really well. I have no idea how the toy worked but I assume that the catapult sent the disc flying.

The Linda saucers remind me greatly of the Japanese Flying Space Rocket [above] which involved a similar disc and presumably what appears to be a catapult too. The Project SWORD artwork header card is beautiful and makes this one of the rarer SWORD related toys I would still love to have in my collection. If only!

I don't know much about Linda. Where they innovators or cloners? They made some nice snow domes including the Daleks [above] and I think Fireball XL5.

They made these neat window boxed Mobile Combat Team sets too, which remind me of how LP boxed up thier Apollo Moon Exploring sets. Does anyone know more about Linda [Hong Kong]?