Stairway to Hercules

Here's some updates on the toy bits I picked up on yesterday.

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Mystery Stairway Solved!

Hello Woodsy

This photo has two of the Hornby Dublo Passenger stair sets.

Center left and top, quarter way from left.

Brian B

NYC

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Chap Mei Hercules in Situ

Here are the loose weapons I found neatly blistered on original online cards. How cool are they! 

Amazingly I found the very same Centaur above, loose, a few weeks back at another sale. Chap Mei! 

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Super Shredder Geared Up

Here's the Turtles' spiky villain wearing the belt and spike pad like the ones I found.

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Small soft FAB1 Unknown

This tiny FAB1 dated 1993 is a mystery. Any ideas?

Bank Holiday Boot Haul and Unknowns

 There's always a big car boot sale on the UK's late summer Bank Holiday Monday, so the Missus and me took off to Castleford To have a rummage.

This was my frugal haul costing in total a fiver. I had fun ID'ing most of the bits. 

Anyone know the unknowns? 

Left: Britain's Space bits

Top LtoR: Unknown cast Staircase, Britain's fencing

Middle LtoR: Spider Man vehicle, unknown slot car, two 1993 FAB 1's.

Bottom LtoR: Super Shredder belt and spike pad, unknown pink knight, Husky MFU Piranha, Chap Mei Hercules weaponry, Falcon rear shooter.

Unknown slot car close-up

Unknown pink knight

Action Fan

 Car boot Wednesdays always fun.

Today, I picked up a bundle of old Action Man spares and a Watch With Mother Annual. Where you a fan?

Alas, at some point I dropped another palitoy face mask and cloth belt between the stall and our car. Gone for a Burton! Doh!

Does anyone recognise the green Y shaped parts at the bottom of the picture? 

Dinky Boots

 It's Wodans Day and that means car booting.

Another gloriously sunny Spring morning making rummaging in the boots even more fun.

Today's haul:

(A tenner, the lot)

I treated myself to two Dinky Superior ambulances, which I loved as a kid. Just the battery operated one to find now.

Two more Corgi Rockets for spares and a Corgi Junior Jerry's Banger, one of two which featured in the Corgi Rockets Tom and Jerry racing set, the other, Tom's car.

Big Barbie Ferrari and Action Man quad?

Lots of small Gen 1 Transformers.

A big Zord body.

Various Star Trek bits, unknown TB4, X Files cards, large boat thingy.

Assorted oddments.

Unknown weapons.

Too nice to be inside, I started cleaning and sorting the stuff in the garden, clipping parts together that seemed to fit. Many items yet to be ID'd.

Rooting in Rothwell

 The Missus and I took a drive to Rothwell today, a small pleasant town near Leeds.

We went largely for the 8 charity shops in the centre but really enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere of the pedestrianised high street. The Spring sun helped too.

I'm being frugal at the mo with buying stuff so I came home with just two books on David Bowie. Oh and the Missus bought me a coat for summer, as well as her own odds and ends. 

Here are some things I passed on.

This looked like a female Boba Fett. Anyone know her?

Countdown Annuals.

I've got these already. You?

Take Your Pick board game, a new one on me.

Antroponova, a huge anthropology set, mint inside. It weighed a ton but looked really interesting, what with skulls and chemicals! 

Family Fortunes. Was this on TV in your country?

I thought this Grand National game was old but it's from 2000.

Vintage Beatles always excite me so when I saw Twist and Shout (did Lennon and McCartney not write it?) and I wanna Be your Man on the other side of this single I did, get excited.

Then I saw the Barron Knights! Doh!

Anything here you like?

Spring Fling

 The local boot sale is in full Spring now.

I was chuffed to extend my Corgi Rockets haul by four this morning, including a golden electric one, which is all new to me.

I recognized Old MacDonalds chuck wagon from Paul A's recent haul post, altho Paul's was the Juniors version. 

The Juniors skiddoo I've yet to ID properly. 

The Wearem Scarem badge at the end was only known to me through Tony Ks marvellous post on the subject here on MC a few years ago. I was pleased to find one with its little paper and baggy.

The Shuttle is an early Transformer or similar.

There were toy collection books galore too. I passed on so many including a Kitahara Japanese tin toys guide but I enjoyed getting a Model and Toys annual a la the great Bill Breugman and a 1995 Collecting Toys, both from the US.

The middle book is an old unpunched Disney press out book.

The small plate is Arabesque. It has a small chip but I can convert it I to a Corgi Rocket I'll be pleased. 

What do you think?

Haul of the Wild

 Another very enjoyable boot sale in the wild Spring sun.

Here's my haul with three clamshell VHS at the back. I need the cases.

LtoR: Overkill isa Micheal Crichton novel, Cap Scarlet blaster, few Action Man spares, unknown red Batman, unknown Japanese vehicles, Aero Car, unknown long lance, unknown sci-fi darts, Paul's pants, 2 Corgi Rockets, Gene Autry novel.

Close-up.

Any good? 

Any idea about the unknown items? 

New Spring Boots

It was the first Spring car boot of the local season yesterday and great fun.

I picked up a few cheap bits to keep me entertained including some Action Man items, some action figures including Kevin Costner, a transformer, a Matchbox carry case, two clamshell VHS and a couple of die-cast. The Missus found a gorgeous Sixties toy called Match Blocks.

Oh, and a nice red Corgi Rockets. Is it a Morgan? 

Anything here you like readers? 

Have you got a sale or a fair coming up?

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These three items remain unidentified. Two plastic figures and an old die-cast. Any ideas? 

The Car Boot Strikes Back

Here's my car boot booty from this morning. 

Skeletor 1981, Darth Vader voice Changer 2004, little mystery figure, Shredder 1988.

Any good?

Mystery Man

Slim Pickens today, our last trip to Thorpe Arch boot sale this year.

 A forty minute drive is too much for a dwindling outdoor sale reduced solely to traders with only the odd family braving the cold with a stall. We'll start going again next year. 

My only purchase was the 50p mystery man dated 2016. Any ideas folks? 

Are you still car booting or flea marketing?

PS.

Identified by Bill, here's what a bubble carded Mechanic looked like. Mines missing the tools.

Anyone else got this figure?

Car Boot Wednesday

 The Missus and me had a car boot stall this morning at the local sale. We did OK and sold quite a lot of unwanted bits and bobs. Same again, next week, the last of the year before Winter arrives.

As usual, as there were two of us, we were each able to have a wander and a rummage. I personally like lots of house clearance boxes (bit sad I know) to rifle through and here's my inexpensive £3 haul for ID'ing and fixing. Well, it keeps me off the streets!

See what you think. Anything you like?

Rear: 1984 MOTU Battle Bones, just missing the backbone pins.

LtoR: unknown clockwork doll, Mertrade van, unknown pirate, unknown Disner figures, Dr.Who Tardis salt and pepper pots, MASK bike copter, Thrushbuster spares, TAT truck, unknown Laurel and Hardy figs.

Yesterday I invested a bit more, £7, on two well boxed Charity shop toys, a Borrowers keepsake and a Schleich Lava Hyena.

Any good?

Right, time for a kip. Pilates classes start again tonight. Nooooooooooo! 

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!