Saturday, 28 December 2024
Just a Minic
Thursday, 26 December 2024
BOXING DAY: REPRO BOXES AND MORE
Boxing Day, yes, its the day after Christmas and what have you done?
How is your Christmas going readers?
Talking of boxes, Its always fun to see what professional repro box makers have on offer. Here's a prolific firm, RETRO TOY REVIVALS, with a wide offer including these rare boxes and backings. There's even some Dr. Who!
I've never used this firm. Have you?
Have you bought a repro box or item readers?
https://retrotoyrevivals.com/products/boxes-and-parts/rare-items/
Anyways, Happy Boxing Day Readers!
Let us know what you're up to!
Sunday, 24 November 2024
WHO FIRED! The Woodsy Wotan Dr. Who Custom - Made Toy Gun Armoury of the 1960's
I'm pleased to be able to show you our home-made Dr. Who toy armoury created thus far.
Its a mixture of 2 home-made toys and 2 original plastic clones, together with repro graphics taken from auctioned examples.
A joint effort between Myself, the toys, and Wotan Bill, the art department. We hope you like them.
Just two more to go, the Dr. Who Astro Ray Dalek Gun and the Anti-Dalek Disintegrator, which will appear in the new year to complete the group of six we've focussed on from the 1960's.
A home-made toy version of the Disintegrator has been made and .. proper plastic clones have been found and acquired for both toys, with the help of Terranova47 and Wotan Bill.
Watch this space for WHO 2025!
Harpooned! The Woodsy Wotan Lone Star James Bond Custom Toy Harpoon
To me this is Wotan Bill's best card graphics so far, the Lone Star James Bond Harpoon toy.
Saturday, 24 February 2024
BLOG LEGEND UPDATE: THE LONE STAR CAPTAIN SCARLET ANTI MYSTERON RIFLE REPRO BOX
Decades ago another blog legend was born, something so rare hens' teeth start to chatter.
Way back in 2010 I blogged about my first sighting of the Lone Star Captain Scarlet rifle as it appeared in my beloved copy of the TV Toy Zone catalogue.
Sunday, 11 December 2022
SCREEN AND SCREEN AGAIN
Just in case you haven't seen them, here are Toy Replica's repro windscreens for the JR21 Landrover.
I haven't had one myself but just in case you need one readers, maybe worth a look at ToyReplicas.com
Tuesday, 5 November 2019
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF REPRO'ING
Custom parts and packaging is closely related to repro'ing. Indeed we have featured custom packaging on Moonbase a number of times for Blog gift exclusives in the past like the miniature Salvage Craft. We printed Moonbase Central on the back.
In the early years of Moonbase I often photoshopped 'new' packaging on the blog for fun, for example, fictional Tarheel box art for a Nuclear Ferry toy.
I did receive some some feedback about doing such custom box art at the time. It suggested that readers might think it was real and that it should be made clearer that it was customised. It was advice I took on board.
One area of potential trouble is selling custom or repro packaging, of which there is a lot online. Repro boxes are a staple of repro parts businesses and I imagine like me some readers have bought the odd repro box.
But it can go wrong and I watched a You Tube video recently showing the dilemma that unmarked/undated custom packaging can cause for collectors and creators alike, especially where money has changed hands and is a good example of how its best to make things clear at the very outset. here's the link if you want to see it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m-2g7AXdmQ
What do you think about custom/repro packaging readers? Have you any experience of it?
Thursday, 13 September 2018
TERRANOVA'S TRI-ANG MINI TAXI
Friday, 25 May 2018
ATLAS MODERN DINKY AUSTIN
Thursday, 26 April 2018
What Do You Think of Repro Toy Boxes?
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PROJECT SWORD SPACEX TIMELINE
- 1968 SPACEX LT10 CONCEPT
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER REAL THING
- 1969 LUNAR CLIMBER & MOONSHIP
- 1968 PROJECT SWORD ANNUAL
- 1968 TV21 #168 PROJECT SWORD PHASE 2
- 1968 PLEASURE CRUISER CONCEPT
- 1968 CENTURY 21 TOY MANUAL
- 1967 SCOUT 1 CONCEPT
- 1967 NUCLEAR FERRY TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER CONCEPT
- 1966 HOVERTANK IN COMIC
- 1966 NUKE PULSE NEEDLEPROBE IN COMIC
- 1966 ZERO X FILM DEBUT
- 1966 MOONBUS IN COMIC
- 1966 SPACE PATROL 1
- 1966 P3 HELICOPTER IN COMIC
- 1966 SAND FLEA AND SNOW TRAIN
- 1966 MOBILE LAUNCH PAD IN COMIC
- 1965 SPACEX MOONBASE CONCEPT
- 1965 APOLLO FIRST UK TOY AD
- 1962 NOVA CONCEPT
- 1962 MOONBUS CONCEPT
- 1961 MOON PROSPECTOR CONCEPT
- 1953 MOLAB CONCEPT