The Plancruiser Mystery

Woodsy,

One of the items in Museo Leikki exhibition is this uncut sheet to build a Plancruiser rocket ship, accompanied with some spacemen and alien life forms.

Published by Kuvataide in 1957, its name suggests that it is a Finnish issue of a foreign original, very likely a British one. However, searching the internet gives no results.

Any help in recognizing the origins of the Plancruiser would be greatly appreciated.

Arto

Helsinki Base

 

Walt Disney Press Out Book 1970

 I picked up this lovely Disney Press Book last week at an outdoor sale, for the princely sum of £1. 

There are activity sheets, paint by numbers and superb pressure out colour shapes of Jungle Book and many more classic.

Published by Purnell in 1970.

Have you any press out books?

BUILD AND LEARN: SPACE CREATURES MODEL BOOK

 I've seen this make a model book a few times over the years. I saved a few snaps.

The C3P0 type makes for a memorable cover. I like the robot's Vibrainium shield!

This template inside could be for the golden bot, although he's not shown in the contents! No fair!

It certainly allows you to make some fantastic creatures.

Poor Chewie though, he's in bother on the back cover.

I can't see a publishers' name.

Have you anything like this?

Post Count Off Punch-Out Space Models

I just found this old TV ad for Post Count Off breakfast cereal on You Tube. You could send away for a book of punch-out space models – all it took was two box-tops from Post Count Off.

This looks like a really nice set. I doubt many of them have survived since the 1960s.

What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKSVBcv2j9g

Paul from NZ

 

Wandering in Eden: My Home-Made Sand Flea

I've always liked the original Sand Flea designed by Eric Eden seen here in the 1966 Thunderbirds Summer Extra bottom left.

I thought I'd have a crack at making one.

More of an impression than a replica.

 

I opted for a darker blue as I had it in.

The main treadwheel at the front is too big really but I had a green rubber band that slipped perfectly over a Vosene bottle cap.

I looked for a plastic doughnut in our Granddaughter's kitchen set but no luck, so I glued together two plastic crate wheels. They're not big or balloony enough really.

The rear armature is an old plastic house-phone cut down to size.

More of a lunar super bike than the Sand Flea, hope you like it.

WAGON CRANES

 

Whenever I see a toy crane like this - a wooden one on Ikeas - it always reminds me of an illustration in one of the neat Project SWORD Make a Model books.

There's some great artwork in them and this is the crane pictured with pals in one of the stories in this one I posted in full years ago [ artist unknown to me. You?]

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-project-sword-make-model-book-1.html?m=1

Do you like toy cranes?

Do you have the Make a Model books or other Century 21 cut-out books?

THE SNOW CRUISER

I always enjoy watching old reels showing fabulous vehicles. There were more amazing vehicles produced than I ever imagined and sometimes bring the visions of the TV21 artists to life.

I watched this clip on You Tube of the 1939 Snow Cruiser and immediately thought of the Snow Train, which featured prominently in the Project SWORD Annual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXq8NWh5vg&feature=emb_logo

I'm sure it will remind you of other fictional vehicles. I wonder what happened to the Snow Cruiser?

Did you have any snow toy vehicles?

DRAWN SWORDS

Another Project SWORD re-post from 2010. Enjoy!

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Similar to '21 Gun Salute' yesterday, 

here is a first look at the SWORD vehicles that made it onto the pages of SWORD books [Make a Model, TV21 Annual, SWORD annual] but not to the toy Century 21 workshop, mores the pity, as some are really quite awesome. 

See what you think. Some of the craft I've named myself for fun.

Hanger Unit 5

Hovercar

Armoured Car

Casuals MSV

Gun Truck

Dome Car

Casuals Fleet

Casuals Fleet Description

SWORD Howe Hovercraft

Emergency Fleet

Sky Scout

Rover 3

Crane 9

Ladder 12

Taxi 1

Taxi 2

Sea Sword

Crushed Bus

Repair Pack 3

Group 1 Taskforce

Group 1 Jet

Skid 205

Sword Tank

My favourite is the Sky Scout. 

What's yours?

Are there any SWORD or Century 21 vehicles that you feel need more attention?

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All pictures: Century 21 Publications.

DON'T MAKE A DIORAMA OUT OF A CRISIS!

Eagle-eyed reader Tony K has spotted this neat card diorama of Quatermass and the Pit and the Knightsbridge Apemen.

Its available on Etsy.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/638712871/quatermass-and-the-pit-toy-theatre

Its being advertised standing on a rather lovely pile of DVD's! Now that's some TV right there!

What do you think?

JUNIOR'S FLEET

A couple of snaps of Moonbase Junior's new plastic toy vehicles.

Above are two mini Hot Wheels he discovered in two Kinder eggs

Below are a fleet of dump trucks and a JCB. Particularly impressive is the CAT dumper, which would not go amiss in a Gerry Anderson production.

The JCB and trucks reminds me of this old Project SWORD drawing.

Have you any construction toys or space construction vehicles?

project sword crane truck

I saw this blue toy crane today in a second hand shop and immediately thought of the crane truck in the Project SWORD illustration below.

There's a huge number of vehicles in the Project SWORD universe that never made it to the toy factory.

There's a probably a range of toys where most of these have doppelgangers I bet especially the construction vehicles like these.

THE PROJECT SWORD MAKE A MODEL BOOK 1: SNOW TRAIN AND HOVER TANK