WILL'S COLEMAN SUPERCAR AND AIRFIX FIREBALL XL5

My customer who bought me that box of bits awhile ago bought a few more things for me the other day. What looks to be a Cecil Coleman supercar and also the Airfix Fireball XL5 . I shall be attempting restorations on both. there are also lots of other bits which I will email to you in due course. 

Will O

UK

SUPERCAR SUN-EZE PICTURES

I saw these online a while back. A new one on me I think, a set of Sun-Eze pictures by Tillman from 1962.

Tillman Toy Inc. were from Monsey in New York.

The pictures are in fact negatives and the set is like a mini dark room!

The instructions show how the negatives could be developed using the small set and then fixed using salt water!

Really quite neat!

Anyone ever seen the finished pictures?

ERIC EDEN'S SUPERCAR

After seeing the recent post from Scoop with his excellent photos of SUPERCAR I was reminded of this.

The Eagle Times of Autumn 2000 had a write up on Eric Eden, one time artist on the Dan Dare strip. The center spread of the magazine was his version of Supercar from the early 60's Supercar Annual.

Here scanned for Moonbase readers.

Terranova47

USA

TIMMY'S PLASTON POSTBOX

Here's my Plaston postbox/moneybox that I've had since I was 3 or 4 (1966/7). 

Its plastic is still soft and squeezy despite being about 55 years old. The base has what looks like M89 just under where it says Plaston - would this be the mould number? 

Alas it no longer has its stickers (I do remember scraping them off at about age 10. Bad Toad!) I've added a picture of what the collection time sticker looked like (good old internet!), but cant find any pics of the toy with its other stickers (I think there was a 1 for the collection). 

The top would have had a 'Post office' sticker - I've found an image online of the type of postbox the toy is based on and include that as well.

Timmy Toad

PLASTON SOUTH AMERICAN SUPERCAR CLONE

Browsing the fab Mike Mercury Supercar site I noticed this cool Supercar toy from Argentina. I must admit I like the colour scheme! What do you think readers?

Its at the bottom of the page.

http://www.mikemercury.net/page15.html

THE MARX SUPERCAR

The Mike Mercury website, a long established site by Dave Hobson, has some really fascinating Supercar oddities on it. They're well worth a look, as is the whole site.

Here's the link to a unique Marx prototype I've never seen before! It looks amazing! 

http://www.mikemercury.net/page3.html

And here's a link to more of the Marx Supercar and check out the internal link to its restoration!

http://www.mikemercury.net/page4.html

SAD SUPERCARS

 These shots of an old plastic toy Supercar appeared on an Argentinian sale. It was described as broken and ready for restoration. I think its a Fairylite. You can see the crack in the rear fin.

This is the underside.

Being broken it reminded me of a somewhat more damaged Fairylite Supercar that featured here a decade ago by early contributor Ferryman.

The damage was almost catastrophic.

In Ferryman's talented hands and some light Fairy dust this is how it turned out!

You can see how he did it here.

Is the Fairylite toy the best Supercar toy or is it the Plaston one or something else?

Have you repaired or restored a Supercar?

Have you got a Supercar toy? Did you have one as a kid?

SUPER DINKY BATTLE CAR

 

I was looking at this online spare part chassis of a Dinky Battle Cruiser? and thought, hmmm, that looks awfully like .... Supercar!

Could Gerry Anderson's Supercar have influenced this Dinky?

or am I seeing things?

Will Osborne's Supercar Pelham Puppets

My Pelham's Professor Popkiss, Mitch and Mike Mercury from Supercar.

Will.

MILTON BRADLEY SUPERCAR TO THE RESCUE BOARD GAME

Hi Woodsy,

In your surveys of board games, you seem to have missed the Supercar game. I wonder if it was just an American release?

regards,

Andy B.

SUPERCAR TOYS

This is a neat pictorial gallery of Supercar toys by the guys at SuperM.

Do you have any Supercar toys?

http://lester.demon.nl/superm/supercar/merc-gallery.html

KNOCKOFF TOY SUPERCAR CLIPS

When it comes to toys most of Gerry Anderson's iconic creations were knocked off at some point or other, even the early stuff.

Take Supercar.

Here's two Superclones I found on You Tube.

They're both Corona1800sl's clips from Japan.

The first one is the Land of the Giants Space Sled with its mysterious action rings.

I've seen advertisements for this toy where its coloured green too.



and here's maybe a knockoff of a knockoff?

Its the Universe Stunt car again with those mysterious action disks.

Have you these or any other Supercar toys, knockoffs or otherwise?

Johnny Lemon: Replacement Apple Canopy for Supercar

If I had the money I could well imagine collecting Supercar toy vehicles.

Even then I might have to replace scarce spare parts with alternatives. Maybe in the spirit of my Johnny Lemon household spares I've blogged about before.

So when I read an old comment about the Fairylite Supercar by reader Paul Vreede from 8 years ago I thought, yes! that's so ersatz!

"I'm just wondering, since I don't know the size of this thing, but that canopy looks rather similar in shape to a transparent Apple Mac mouse?"

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I looked into the Apple pro Mouse. Here's its clear cover:

Its a transparent domed pill-shape cover that sits on the mouse.

Paul's right, it is like the domed pill-shaped canopy of the Fairylite Supercar!

Here they both are side by side, although not to scale.

We know how big a computer mouse is but what about the Supercar? Would it fit?

The Fairylite Supercar is approx. 8 inches long. 

It might just work, the Apple Pro canopy!

Not sure it would do for the bigger Plaston Supercar though.
Thats about a foot long. That's 12 inches, the length of an ruler. 

Here's the Plaston and and small Fairylite Supercars together in a pic I recently saw on Ebay.

I really do like Supercar toy vehicles! Do you?

For more fab Supercars check out the essential website Mike Mercury.

HANDMADE SUPERCAR MODEL MOVIE

This short film by 2arttoyguys from 2012 caught my eye during one of the cold dark afternoons this New Year.

Its from the low-tech school of scratch building, which is the school of modelling I went to! ha ha.

Its only had a few hundred hits so it needs a plug. I like it! Do you?