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Monday, 6 May 2024

Captain Scarlet Mystery Jet Solved!

Woodsy,

Regarding that silver "Captain Scarlet Mystery Jet" you found on Noppin in 2012 - if it isn't somehow related to this 1966 Midori Super Arrow, I'll turn in my Project SWORD badge!

Rob C

USA

Sunday, 23 April 2023

STOPPIN BY ON NOPPIN

After a long pause I've been browsing Noppin again, the Japanese marketplace.

I used to buy loads of small Project SWORD miniatures from Noppin years ago but I'm unsure if Westerners can buy anymore. Certainly Yahoo Japan stopped trading with many countries.

Anyway, I've saved some snaps from my latest gander of mostly Glico vehicles and rockets, Glico being a candy company, the premiums from which are massively collected in Japan so there are thousands of them on Noppin. Searching can be difficult so I use terms like Glico Showa, Glico Universe, Glico toy, Glico Thunderbirds and so on. Have a go!

Speaking of which, here's Glico's Thunderbirds Radar Car, which I first saw in 1996 in Dennis Nicholson's majestic Andersonalia Book.

and the UFO SHADO2

I wondered if this might be a UFO car too?

I liked this one as well.

We've seen this before being mislabelled as UFO elsewhere online but its still nice.

Wombat'ish?

and occasionally other stuff pops up in a Glico bundle ... can you see a radar?

Here it is. SpaceX Mobile HQ?

The following ships are all a mystery to me, part of the vast Japanese universe of Manga and Anime I imagine.

Any ideas readers?

Wednesday, 30 September 2020

NOPPIN SUSPENDED

A casualty of Covid, Japanese auction assistants Noppin has now closed until next year. I've used Noppin many times when buying from Japan and it's always been easy. I do hope that Noppin can survive Covid and come back in 2021.

Saturday, 2 November 2013

That Sinking Feeling

Blimey, Noppin have informed its customers that some of their shipments are unfortunately at the bottom of the ocean, literally!

MOL, the cargo ship used, split in two earlier in the year and hundreds of containers fell into the sea! If ever there was a time for choosing Air Mail it was that one! All the crew were rescued by the way!