This blow moulded spaceman is amazing!  So simple, so angular! I'm unsure it looks like a spaceman though! What do you think?

Wotan onced mentioned a company or product called Carzol. Until then I had never heard of the company. Well, apart from an insecticide, what...

Back in the day childhood was full of brilliant games and sets. There were so many in the Sixties I find it hard to remember them all. Fasci...

The recent backlash against plastics is making me feel guilty. My entire childhood was filled with plastic toys and plastic items were all...

I used to see these boxed cake candle trains all the time at car boot sales in the 1990's. I even bought a whole mint lot and sold them...

I've blogged about larger friction toy vehicles many times [ here and here ]. I've included large plastic versions of the Popeye Pa...

Its too soon to talk about the Big Day so I won't but the onset of the dark month of November has got me thinking about the promise of ...

I've always loved plastic novelty toys and as a kid I had quite a few. Many I got from the Ellisdons mail order catalogue but some wher...

As part of a sort out to make more room at Moon Base I found this plastic toy Indian elephant and rider in the loft. I know its from m...

I picked up these little plastic cars in an antiques centre in Rotherham today. Very cheap and colourful, I find then very endearing. ...

What luck! I've been spring cleaning my inbox and found these pictures of  'my' red motorbike but this time in yellow...

Thought I recognised the motorbike toy in this British Pathe still from the Sixties. I have the very same toy in my display case. Here ...

My parents were definately part of the plastic generation. Plastic was everywhere in the Sixties and even the garden wasn't safe. I rem...