Thursday, 17 July 2025
Little Success
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Wednesday Wares
It's mid-week and that means car booting.
This week's haul was fun to bag. All cheap and cheerful.
See what you think.
LtoR:
Mixer to fix, Road Monster, Barbie dog for our Granddaughter, Emergency TV jigsaw, Nacoral duck car to fix.
Rexard dolls, Roboom transformer to fix, Anglo Captain Scarlet cards set ( need checking), Japanese tin jet, action figures including Dr. Malcolm and '79 Boba Fett, toy soldiers and astronauts, solid metal planes ( make unknown)
Fixing toys is heaven for me. Wednesday is my favourite day!
Thursday, 15 May 2025
This Week's Mixed Catch
This week's haul at the local boot sale is a mish mash of different stuff.
See what you think.
This little fella is by Marx and as yet is unidentified. I have his legs.
I spent about a tenner on this lot. Great fun as always looking for old toys.
See anything you like? Can you ID the mysteries?
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Midweek Medley
This week's catch so far:
See what you think?
In Wetherby, a large David Bowie framed print £5
Japanese phones ( came with long green wire): needs attention, 30p
I passed on a boxed set of Denys Fisher Speed Burners ( Mego 1974). £25 was too steep for me but the two golden cars were fabulous.
I need to start selling now!
Sunday, 4 May 2025
Bandai Sunday
I didn't bag any Star Wars down today's boot sale, but I did get some nice stuff.
The plastic bell jar skeleton is from 1991, the cast Romans from 2000 and the two figures are Thunderbirds are Go 2015.
I dropped on with the Bandai Terrahawks for a fiver the two. The Snorkel tender will be fun to do up with parts from the plastic Teamsterz one. Similarly Ill clean up the Goofy car and Plymouth Gran Fury.
The two other die-casts are for my cabinet, a lovely gold Superkings Merc from 1974 and a fabulous black Toyota Crown from Universal Hobbies. This car has four passengers and all are either gangsters or FBI. This is my fave buy today, just 50p!
What do you like readers?
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Fitzi Finds
Today I bagged a decent haul of cheap and interesting tat down at Fitzwilliam's bid Wednesday boot sale. Lots of vintage toys to be had along with knick knacks galore.
The 2005 Darth Vader Imperial Motorbike cleaned up well and once he got a DIY lightsaber in his mitt he was off!
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
Moonbase Morsels
Been to a few places this week, an emporium in Rotherham and a boot sale in Fitzwilliam. Both great fun in Spring sunshine.
Here are my purchases.
LtoR: All about Cars by Century 21/ Corgi £2, KO Action Man (I think) 50p, two Lanard GI Joes £1 each, Kirk 50p, Dalek bubble bath £8 and a 2003 long robot vehicle £2. No idea what it is, I just loved it!
I also picked up a Beastmaster pre-cert big box VHS for £1. Not pictured.
Anything you like readers?
Sunday, 30 March 2025
An Annual Event
Mooching round Thorpe Arch boot sale this Mother's Day morning. There's a brisk wind and a Spring chill.
I saw these annuals on a stall. Champion the Wonder Horse is not one you often see. I liked that show as a kid, with it's catchy theme tune.
Is there anything you would have got?
Sunday, 9 March 2025
THE BARBIE STAR TRAVELLER: A REALLY BIG TOY!
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Lips Manlis and the Sunny Smile
A recent car booting trip proved fun. I bagged this trio of vintage toys that came back to Moonbase with me.
The two carded figures are the only two carded figures I own and at £15 for the pair I couldn't resist.
I've been aware of Playmates' Dick Tracy figures for decades, including the fabled Blank and this Lips Manlis is a trip down memory lane.
Captain Power is not a line I know at all really but this carded Chase figure was in such fab condition I got it as well.
The huge green Action Man tank is not the Cherilea original but the later Sunny Smile release, which I think is the same as Strike Force. It just needs a dusting and some of the decals re-glueing before going on maneuvers. A snip at £4 I thought.
Are these toys you know readers?
Friday, 21 February 2025
REMEMBERING MY CHIMERA
A few times selling on Ebay I have hit the jackpot. Well, my jackpot, anything over a tenner! ha ha.
This was one such sale five years ago, the small blue creature in the middle of the shot. Found in a box of tat at a car boot sale and purchased with the other figures for peanuts.
After some research at the time during the pandemic I discovered that the plastic creature was in fact a premium from an obscure line of lucky bags called Horror n Heroes, which have a collectors' cult following. The blue creature was and is a prized collectable for fans! The Chimera. Who knew!
You can read more about Horrors n Heroes here on the sadly now defunct Fantasy Toy Soldiers blog.
I'd never seen a Chimera before and haven't seen one since.
Have you?
Sunday, 29 September 2024
SUNDAY SERVING
Feels like ages since we visited a Sunday car boot sale, but today we braved the Autumn cold and headed to Wetherby, where stalls of goodies and a small fry-up awaited.
The breakfast café fry-up was frugal but tasty - me and the Missus are on a diet called 'intermittent fasting' - no food now till this evening!
The stalls were interesting too.
What do you think of my meagre catch readers including some freebies?
Does it follow that the sculptor was in Glasgow too, maybe in the 1950's or 60's?
Anyone recognise anything in this picture?
Thursday, 5 September 2024
WEDNESDAY WARES
Further amblings round the Wednesday sale proffered much. In the end I came home with these. See anything you like?
A small medic pack. Action Man?
Wednesday, 28 August 2024
Spur of the Moment
Today's modest catch down the boot sale. See anything you like?
Small celluloid Geisha
Sunday, 18 August 2024
Sunday Sale
Picked up a few guys n dolls this morning for the various projects I have in mind.
LtoR: Modern Action Man, tall unknown figure, modern Ken or Paul, JLS member, modern Barbie, Barbie cheapo clone, 2 bent knee wrestlers, 2 finger fight wrestlers, unknown soldier
Any good?
Thursday, 8 August 2024
Slim Pickens Haul
Slim Pickens down the boot sale.
LtoR: budgie CD (free), Mike England plastic head, Don McLean cassette, 2 Sindy jigsaws, a MASK figure, Palitoy PIPPA plates carded, MAROC 7 paperback, Zor El figure, Action man colt 45.
Anything you like?
Sunday, 28 July 2024
BUYS 'N' DOLLS
Slim Pickens down the local boot sale last week but as always highly enjoyable.
Largely an old doll haul - three for a pound, who can resist! - see what you think, from L to R:
Vietnamese [I think] 18 inch doll,
Top row: cute tiny Sixties dolly [ID?], cheap Barbie clone, Spanish Flamenco dancer [My Mum loved these!]
Next: Ammonite, Britains Deetail Horse
Next row: plastic bazooka [for a future project]
Bottom: rubbery plastic Action Man pouches [from what?], cast Indian Chief, cast School sign, old 1935 penny, small weight, pendant, metal ball on a rod [glued onto my diver now!] and a VR Trooper.
Re. the tall doll, its a long time since I've found an 18 inch figure. The last time was Farah Fawcett Majors, who was married to Bionic Man Lee Majors, and who I always get mixed up with Jamie Summers, the actual Bionic Woman [played by Lindsey Wagner], the TV wife of the Bionic Man Steve Austin [played by Lee Majors]. See what I mean! My confusion isn't unique. If you read my original post Don't Fawcett about finding the 18 incher you'll see the seller was mixed up too!
Did you get confused between Farah and Lindsey?
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
My Mountie and Today's Catch
My car boot catch today. All cheap as chips.
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
MEAGRE MORSELS
Meagre morsels again this boot sale, just a handful of cheap and cheerful chattels. £2.50 the lot.
MASK figure
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