Walkie Talkie Smoker Spy

 I can't get enough of spy toys.

Here's a trio I saw on auction and kept the pics.

Simple walkie talkies.

The classic Pipe gun! Smokin!

So much in this fab lot! 

What do you like?

Clint Bond

 This is a neat spy toy set I saw on auction. The toy pistol and silencer remind me of my Joe 90 items in the 1960's attache case.

But James Bond, the agent looks more like Clint Eastwood in Magnum Force to me.

What do you think readers?

A Case of Having To

 I bought a Ryan's World spy case for a squid.

It was empty and there was no way I could find the missing parts cheaply.

So I sprayed it black and set off on a mission!

Hope you don't recognise my new case!

 

Secret Rendezvous

 Some snaps of my latest car boot cars, both very slickish CIA and FBI!

The Day of the Attic

Secret Sam took the call in his attic office.

The Moonbase toy collection had to be protected at all costs. Stop.

The mission is go! You're on your own Sam.

Over and out.

The Wild Wild West DVD Box Set

The TV series The Wild Wild West came up recently. This was a show that combined two popular TV genres of the 1960s – cowboys and spies, and can be summed up as James Bond in the Wild West.

James West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) were Secret Service agents, with their own train – as the gadget-packed spy car had not yet been invented. It was fitted out with all the crime fighting essentials, and was basically the Batcave on rails.

President Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77) appeared in a few episodes. But there were few other regular characters, apart from villain Miguelito Loveless.

Fighting mad super villains, the series ran for 104 episodes over four seasons, 1965-69. The first series was in black and white, and the rest in colour.

There were also two TV movies – The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979), and More Wild Wild West(1980), with the original leads. These were followed by a very poor Wild Wild West movie in 1999, with a new cast.

This magnificent boxed DVD set contains all the TV episodes, the two TV movies, and various extras, on 27 discs. Copyright date 2010.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Open and Shut Case: a Near Mint Redbox Special Agent 707 Set

 After buying a well-used Redbox agent 707 set last week, I treated myself to this much less used and superbly boxed example I stumbled across online.

A real bargain on Etsy, this set is virtually complete and almost near mint.

The photographic box is fabulous! It also incorporates a camera-wielding-agent painted illustration that seems to hark back to much earlier sets to me.

The CE import address sticker is for Redbox in Swinton.

The actual Red Box home address is in California!

You can see how shiny the case is compared to my previous purchase.

Some of the gold print has come away. 

The contents are just brilliant.

 The gun and it's accessories are a more authentic black and it contains both large and small toy bullets.

One larger bullet was missing in the opened packet but amazingly I had a spare courtesy of Bill!

Interestingly this version ran with a Gold Tip cigarette box pistol too. The other case I have houses a less controversial radio gun.

It also comes with two smart pistol dart missiles reminiscent of Marx's spy sets.

The little box of smaller bullets is hard to find separately, although Bill did give me a loose box-full about 25 years ago! Sadly sold on since, my other case is still waiting for its own ammo.

The 707 passport contains the toy's original lucky owner's details and his agent CV! It dates the set to 1990. I thought it was older.

Assembled with shoulder stock, silencer and scope, the agent's black pistol looks stupendous I think!

It looks better than the orange version in my opinion.

So, there you have it. An open and shut Redbox case. Hope you like it.

Have you an attache case readers?