Space Board Games from Germany

 I've always loved board games.

It's the box art and contents that do it for me. Not the playing. I get bored!

Here's a fantastischen gallery of German space themed board games I've found. 

You may have your own versions of these games. 

Here's the link to the Brettspiel Museum

 https://share.google/pUpwQB891aTeM0UXK

See anything you have or like? 

Museum of Brands Gerry Anderson Exhibition

Image: Museum of Brands

Reader Terranova47 spotted an interesting UK event on the Downthetubes site, the Thunderbirds & Space: 1999 – Sci-Fi Toys & Collectables Exhibition.

In London at the Museum of Brands, here's their own Museum link to the exhibition.

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Let us know if you go. Sounds FAB! 

Magna!

 We took the Grandkids to Magna today, the steel-making kids' centre in Rotherham.

With Fire, Earth, Water and Air displays, I really liked the fire gallery.

Another bit was the 

Argon Bubbler 

Seeing the name reminded me of the legendary unproduced Mad Bubbler from the LJN Thunder ats toy figure range, a prototype looking like .....

Anyone got any Thundercats toys?

Magna was a modern kids' science lab and as interactive as they come.

One of my fave exhibits was this air ball demo!

Do you like it?

Parainen Nostalgia Museum, Finland

Recently we visited the Nostalgia Museum in Parainen, SW Finland. 

A young lad had amassed an impressive variety of vintage items for his private collection on all fields of life, toys included.

 A grand day out!

Arto

Helsinki Base

Arto's Sears Super Sonic Jetliner

Re. your blog post on the subject, I sent you these photos of my orange Sears Super Sonic Jetliner back in 2022. 

It came up here in Finland, in great working condition and with a survivor original box. It is an imposing, sizeable toy in its 62 cm long box.

Sad news, the Suomenlinna Toy Museum which featured my space toy exhibition back in 2017 has closed down after 40 years. Still reeling from the shock.

https://www.hs.fi/helsinki/art-2000011053511.html

Arto

Helsinki Base

MAJOR SIMILARITIES

 I'm amazed how similar this old life-size kids' space helmet is to Major Matt Mason's miniature one.

Made by Dekker, this fabulous one was on the Australian Museum Powerhouse collection.

Did you have a space helmet?

All Good Things

Last summer my Missus took me to the Leeds Museum Repository.

A warehouse stuffed with old treasures ready for Museums but also on display themselves.

Here's a small selection of the fascinating exhibits.

Take the Plunge

I had to chuckle at the positioning of objects in this museum. A dalek and a big plunger! Can we expect a really big dalek to turn up and claim it! 

It needs a better caption! 

James Bond, Johnstown Castle, Wexford

After my last blogworthy post featuring Dinky Prisoner mokes, here's a visit to a Dinky exhibition at Johnstown Castle Wexford Ireland. 

The Maurice Bryan model vehicle collection features over 600 items, but only a fraction are on display in a converted garage in the Castle grounds.

The exhibition signage is very nice with modified catalogue art. What is that red twin bubbled vehicle, Moonbasers? 

The James Bond car is a first run gold paint number, although it doesn't feature the road tax disc on the windscreen that my example does. 

Also, it's displayed in the full glare of daylight, so I don't expect it to last another 50 years!

Looey

On tour

The Museum of German History 1945 to Today

 A gallery of images from the Museum of Post-War German History in Bonn.

Lots of pictures. A sobering place. 

Some toys too! More to follow.

In the shop first...

The time capsule ... To be opened in 44 years according to the counter.

World Trade Center girder. There were Germans who died there too.

Helpful bot. It's brothers called ... Paul!

Actual Persching silo door

The anti military toy movement.

East German surveillance

East German home made monopoly. The black sign says No Goods Today.

Anti robotic machinery movement

Lenticular postcard

Space stuff

More space stuff

German rocketry

Cosmonaut

GAMA moon buggy

East Berlin clockwork powered by a Trabant motor 1969

It's model

East Berlin with it's TV tower. Model.

Beatlemania

West Germany presented this motorbike to it's one millionth foreign worker.

Elvis in Germany! 

The Berlin wall goes up. Tears.

Sandmannchen

East German obsession with the Soviet Sputnik.

Sanndmanchen

This was the Western machine that first heard Soviet satellite signals.

Original PEZ

The Japanese tin Frontier Rocket, which like countless thousands across Europe, I adored as a kid. I've still got one! Have you?

JFK's presidential Mayor of Berlin Banquet Menu, 26th June 1963

What do you think?

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Fish cocktail, toast, butter

1961 wine

Filet of Beef, asparagus tips, steamed peppers, royal potatoes, lettuce heart

1959 wines

Ice cream,

Fancies

Champagne

Mocha