TEDS, TEDDIES, BEARANDAS AND EDWARDS

 Teddy's have always been big with kids.

We had Tingha and Tucker this morning courtesy of Century 21 licensing and Gerry Anderson's organisation had more too, namely the Bearandas who drove Stripey the mini and ran the magic toyshop in Candy/ Candy and Andy comics and Annuals. 

Just 9d every Wednesday!

Did you have anything to do with Candy and Andy or Tingha and Tucker?

Among countless telly bears here's one I never knew, Teddy Edward, a neat play of words as Teddy is already an Edward. here's an annual I've just freecycled to someone from 1975. By Christmas 1975 I was 15 and dreaming of cuddling girls, not teddies!

Did you know Teddy Edward?

And maybe a much more famous telly teddy is SuperTed, the welsh bear. We used to watch it on S4C in the early 80's with our one year old daughter when we lived across from Puffin Island.

Superted is making a comeback this year by all accounts and his spotty friend too.

Do you remember SuperTed?

Just what is the universal appeal of teddy bears readers? Do you know?

Did you have a teddy?

THE PRISONER MINI MOKE LIVES AGAIN!

A coupla years old but here's an interesting article about the Mini Mke from the Prisoner being restored! 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/classic/mini-moke-prisoner-restored-50-years-starring-tv-series/

Have you ever driven in a Mini Moke?

PRISONER'S MINI MOKE RESTORED

This is relatively old news but I've just read this article in the Telegraphn online about the Prisoner's Mini Moke having been restored in 2017.

I loved the Moke in the Prisoner - remember it? - and I adored my die-cast toy in the Sixties. Did you have one?

I'm pretty sure me and the Missus hired a Mini Moke to drive around in on Crete in the early Nineties. Is that possible?

Anyways, here's the article. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/classic/mini-moke-prisoner-restored-50-years-starring-tv-series/

It says the Moke was found derelict in a barn in Holland in 2011. How did it end up there?

I am not a Number!

EYE CANDY

I saw this striped scooter and sidecar in a Headingley hairdressers window and thought of

.... Candy!

Yes, that most obscure of Gerry Anderson's creations, Candy's Bearandas had a striped mini called 

 ... Stripey!

Here's a modern Stripey car I spotted online!

But where are the bears?

Have you got anything Candy stripey?

SL MULTI LOAD TRUCK: ITS A MOKE THING

Its not often I see any plastic toys by SL of Hong Kong.

They came dramatically to my attention about 10 years ago when I acquired what is probably one of my prize Project SWORD collectables, the SL Task Force No.3 Space Rocket.

Shortly after getting it I started a checklist of SL toys on Moonbase

http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2009/11/sl-toys-of-hong-kong.html

I wanted to find the toy model numbers before and after my space rocket, which is number 121 C. I also wanted to shed some light on the letter C at the end of it. What did it mean?

Well, sometimes, indeed often, a great notion falls by the wayside and my checklist was one such project. 

I never did find those model numbers or solve the C question [which we've also seen relating to LN and LP toys on Moonbase as discussed by Arto.]

I still can't.

So, in the spirit of keeping things going a little bit I will now add at least one new toy to the SL list.

Its a beautiful set I noticed recently on the Bay [seller 123pusso].

The Multi Load Truck.

SL loved Mini Mokes and issued many variations.

This is another Moke and this set gave kids the chance to put 6 different plastic loads on the back like coal, timber and big milk churns.

The model number is 112- M.

Nowhere near my space rocket's number of 121, the M is still intriguing. Could it really be as simple as M for Multi Load Truck? Or did it mean M for multiple toys to go in the box?

But why C then on my rocket box? Carded? Its boxed though. Surely it would be B?

Anyway, I've enjoyed seeing this new SL toy. I do its relative simplicity and the box art depicting different industrial settings.

The red hatching at the side of the text panel on the box reminds me of another toy box livery, the red lines on the JR21 Rocket XL9 Spaceship.

What is the origin or purpose of this red hatching on toy boxes in the Sixties? Anyone know?

Have you any SL toys?