Headless in Fitzwilliam

 We stood at a boot sale today.

As is traditional when two do it then each gets to have a wander!

My el cheapo haul today was thus:

LtoR:

Knockoff Mintex-style Action Man, Polistil Ambulance, 1978 Invicta Plesiosaur, 1984 Barbie exercise bike, 1985 Thundercats Cheetara without her head, MASK boulder.

I also got a MASK sports car and a small GEN 1 Transformer, but these are still in the car and I'm resting on the bed. Well I did get up at 5.30am!

Anything you like?

I'll clean them all up next and attempt some repairs.

Waiting for a Tuk Tuk

 Standing at the local boot sale this morning, I left the Missus on the stall and had a mosey.

One thing I saw was a plastic toy tuk tuk or rickshaw car with a small seated figure.

A bit like this one online but not the same. I'd spent up so didn't get it.

On the base of the one I saw was the word Paladone - no idea what that is - and also MS, which I'm wondering if it may mean Marks and Spencer?

Anyone any idea?

Anyone got one? Anyone ever been in a tuk tuk or a rickshaw?

Little Success

 

It was slim pickins in the sunshine yesterday but I did pick up these inexpensive bits 'n' bobs up at the local boot sale, all from the same basket of oddments. All little figures, some yet to be ID'd. 

I love the header-carded and bagged antiqued American Indian. The standing shooter next to it is from the same range.

The two blister carded figures were originally hung on the necks of Grants whisky bottles! 

Anything you recognise? 

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! 

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.

Rear LtoR:

1980's Transformers x 2, Kleeware red beAr rattle, Spanish Godzilla, Mecki x 2, Bahamas plastic police figure, C21 Monkees Annual, wedding couple dolls as yet unidentified, plastic ball and holder game, clackers,

Front LtoR:

Corgi Rockets Capri, Mego plastic Corvette, unidentified Marx figure, Barbie clone, tiny metal deity, Italian white

 plastic miniature figures by Depose.

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? 

Midweek Medley

 This week's catch so far:

See what you think?

In Wetherby, a large David Bowie framed print £5

In Fitzwilliam, various: JR21 TB3 minus engine £1 ( I have a spare engine somewhere!) , Swing Wing Jet minus tail £1, Night of the Ghouls VHS video £1, diver roller 30p, Ryan's Spy Case £1 ...

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! 

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?

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! 

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?

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?

THE BARBIE STAR TRAVELLER: A REALLY BIG TOY!

I used to love buying and selling Barbie and Sindy stuff. It sort of made up for all the times everyone told me as a kid that I mustn't play with dolls 'cos I was a lad! I was already playing with Action Man, Matt Mason, Tommy Gunn and Captain Laser! They were dolls!

Besides the super exciting episode with the rare dress that I've blogged about before, another favourite find was a complete Barbie Star Traveler Motor Home as pictured. There wasn't a box - but that was OK. All the tables and chairs were there.

As soon as I saw it at the car boot sale I just had to ask 'How Much is the big van?'. The answer was £2 I think and before you could say Lets Go Barbie I was walking off with my own Star Traveler!

Probably more exciting than the purchase itself is getting home and checking stuff over. I love that and this baby took some checking. With the help of the net I was able to check off every part. Aaah. The simple joys of life.

I've heard that Barbie and Ken drove off in their Star Traveler and are somewhere in the Plastic Rockies now! No doubt Big Jim will be along soon to crash the party!

Have you bought anything really big and collectable readers?

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?

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 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?

LtoR; British Rail book [free], Action Man Jeep £1, BR Diesels book [free], Sculptor photo [free], Photography Year Book 1963 [free]. Torchy The Battery Boy Book £1, brass scope and other optical ring £2 

the free photograph, from a huge pile of free prints, is unusual. It shows a sculptor showing his work to someone, whilst the sitter who is being sculpted sits.

The sculptor has a distinctive 'artists' beatnik-style tash and beard.

The bust appears to be nearly finished.

On the back of the print is this Glasgow address for the photographer, John McLean.

Does it follow that the sculptor was in Glasgow too, maybe in the 1950's or 60's? 

Anyone recognise anything in this picture?

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?

Airgam Boys Space 3 scooter. I left the jet behind for some reason. Doh!

GoBots Binoculars by Arco

Bought solely for strangeness. Turns out they're called Teutans Heroes from 2014. Those are Mer-Man's legs I'm sure - from the MOTU range! ha ha. They spit balls I think.

Unknown Action Man clone; the kind of figure my Mum would have got me from Zodiac toys back in the Sixties.

Unknown Action Man type air tanks. Soft plastic.

The following four larger plastic vehicles were altogether, one pound the lot! Now that's car boot magic!

International Products London Jeep/ Land Rover

Merit Loco

Unknown blow moulded racer - numbered.... 21!

Friction Mercedes

I picked another battered Amphibious Investigator Car up for a Winter day's messing. The young chap who sold it me had a stall full of vintage toys. We had a chat and it was like talking to my younger self 30 years ago! He told me about the toy fairs he stands at and how excited he is about standing at the NEC in Birmingham soon, one of the biggest in the UK. Interestingly he doesn't bother with Ebay, preferring Vinted and FB Marketplace to sell. He gets his stock from auction houses.

Oh to be young and fit again!

Has anyone any experience of Vinted? I thought it was for selling second hand clothes.

Call the Coastguard!

Spur of the Moment

 Today's modest catch down the boot sale. See anything you like? 

Small celluloid Geisha

Action Force backpack

Unknown metal sailor and Action Jack

An Avon Robot and a modern Smiffys spur because I just liked it! 

Spanish flamenco dancer, Evergreen doll and Thunderbirds Projector slide.

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?

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? 

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?

My Mountie and Today's Catch

 My car boot catch today. All cheap as chips.

My favourite item was this plastic copy of a Matchbox SuperKings fire tender.

My Mountie is progressing too.

He has spiffing new Jodpurs.

His hat's in the paint shop too.

And the car boot provided the perfect idea for my next Action Man mockery!