A BIRTHDAY GREETING FOR PAUL A FROM DIECAST COLLECTOR MAGAZINE

Happy birthday Paul, everyone at Diecast Collector hopes that you have a wonderful day!

Many thanks,

Cathy Herron

Group Editor – Collecting

Warners Group Publications

PAUL ADAMS' NEW DIECAST COLLECTOR ARTICLE: WONDER WOMAN JET

Reader and contributor Paul Adams has another article in the UK model car magazine DieCast Collector.

Paul's most recent article is about the Hot Wheels release of Wonder Woman's jet from the film Wonder Woman 84, which some readers may have seen.

The article is in the May 2024 issue. Its on sale from the 2nd April. Here's the cover.

Well done Paul!

PAUL'S GOT IT COVERED!

When I got home yesterday there was a notification that the December 2023 issue of Diecast Collector is now out in Britain.

I have two shorter articles in it and I have also made the cover!

The Matchbox Bedford Duple Luxury Coach from the 1950s is from my article. Yes, very pleased about that!

Picture: Diecast Collector

Paul Adams

New Zealand

LOOKING FOR THE GAZETTE

Supermarket shopping remains one of the few things we can still do.

Yesterday we went to Asda and I had a gander at the magazines section, largely to see if there was something for a relative in the music section. There was a fabulous-looking pack of Roger Dean art cards in a Yes edition of Prog mag. There was also a sealed Rock mag, the greatest guitarists of all time. But checking the prices I put them back. £8.99! For a magazine!

As usual I had a quick look for that stalwart of the toy collecting world, the small newspaper, Collectors Gazette, which if I recall is still reasonably priced. But like the last couple of times I've tried to find the Gazette it was to no avail. I couldn't find one.

Collectors Gazette was essential reading back in the 90's for me and a large tower of copies began to grow in my house. I didn't subscribe to it. That honour went to the wonderful Model Mart but the Gazette was always worth finding at toy fairs and in the newsagents every month. My tower of Gazettes and Model Marts eventually became so big that I kept it in the cellar and when we moved house in 2003 it was culled. Only certain copies came with us.

So its quite nostalgic looking for Collectors Gazette. Can you find it? Do you still read it?

Which magazines do you get?

Twisted ToyFare Theatre

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Hi Woodsy,

I'm pretty sure you would have read Toyfare when it was around, for me the Bible for seeing which company was releasing what figures, the Zach Malamute column, island of misfit toys and last and by no means least Twisted Toyfare Theatre!

My favorite part of this publication, so many stupid stories, my favorite was mego planet of the apes figures dressed as Spidey, they robbed ATM's, got caught and the judge at their trial was a mego Charlton Heston, head of the National Rifle Association!!

You can guess what happens... Priceless!!

Regards
MJ 

Southcoast base

SCALE MODELLING REAL SPACE MAGAZINE

Hi Woodsy

Being such a new reader of Moonbase Central, I do not know if this has been mentioned before. 

I picked up my magazines today, and having a quick look at the shelves, spotted an Airfix Model World magazine special called Scale Modelling Real Space. 

This is a 100-page special devoted entirely to models of real or proposed spacecraft. It is by Key Publishing in Britain, and is dated 2019 - remember it takes a little while for magazines to make the voyage from Britain to NZ!

The old Strombecker RM-1 Rocket Ship, reissued by Glencoe, from a design by Wernher von Braun. Revell International Space Station. Horizon Models Redstone. Airfix Saturn V Skylab. Heller Ariane 5. Chinese spacecraft. Soviet Space Shuttle. MPC Titan IIIC. The new US Space Launch System heavy rocket.

Several of the articles have photos of the real thing. I expect this would be off the shelves in UK shops by now, but Key seem to have stocks of older specials for sale through their on-line shop.

Paul Adams

NZ

DR. WHO SHADA MAGAZINE MYSTERY

This a Dr. Who mystery.

The description of this auctioned bundle of Dr. Who SHADA magazines mentions Century 21 toys. Does this mean that there is an article about them in one of these old SHADA magazines? Anyone know what this is about? Anyone know SHADA?

Here's the description.

"A mixed group of "Dr. Who" related comic and colour books which includes Marvel Collectors Issue 1 and No.57-60, Dr. Who Summer and Winter Specials, Dr. Who Weekly No.1-43, Dr. Who Monthly 44-102, Century 21 Toys and Fanzines - conditions are generally Good to Mint. (lg qty)"

HYPER HOBBY DASH AND PROJECT SWORD

This is the Hyper Hobby Dash magazine from Japan, 1998. 

I saw it on Noppin and saved these pics.

Here's the cover.

and here's one set of Imai pages, the left one featuring Project SWORD no less, in relation to Imai's yellow Thunderbird 7 model kit.

TENTH BIRTHDAY FINALE EXCLUSIVE: CENTURY 21 AND PROJECT SWORD IN GAMES AND TOYS TRADE JOURNALS

This year I was fortunate enough to acquire a group of vintage UK toy trade magazines.

They included much to interest the space toy collector, Century 21 enthusiast and fans of Project SWORD and SpaceX toys.

Many of these pages are new to the blog. I hope you like them.

The magazines were a group of Games and Toys kindly donated by blog friend Terry H and a fine copy of Toys International.

Oddly enough all the magazines were bought from a dealer in Spain.

For speed I have just taken photographs. Some aren't great sorry.

One day I will scan them.

If you need specific dates for any page then just ask.

In the meantime, enjoy!

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GAMES AND TOYS

1960's

TOYS INTERNATIONAL 

JULY-AUGUST 1969

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