We've spoken about Barbarella's pistols before. One of her lesser ray guns - pictured above - appears to be the same one in the fabu...

Covered before on MC, Starcruiser was one of several Gerry Anderson television projects from the 1970s that did not make it in to production...

Thomas Salter were a great toy company. In the late Sixties I loved their Adventurer set with its compass and water bottle. In the late 70...

We've just been camping for a few days with our Grandchildren in Appletreewick in the Yorkshire Dales. You know, tents, pegs, guy [or is...

This Thomas Salter Spin A Win football game is related to the Captain Scarlet version of the game! http://www.oldfootballgames.co.uk/index.a...

Thanks to Paul A's eagle eyes I've managed to track down the other Spin a Win board games, which we now know where released by Thom...

I saw a pair of plastic toy binoculars the other day. They were in a plastic toy shoulder case. All made to look like grown up binoculars. ...

With Spring sunlight pouring onto our lives once more like a nurse my mind is slowly returning to going outdoors for longer than five minut...

Whilst browsing for GiFs I saw this one from the movie Green Slime, the movie which included a spaceship which likely inspired the toy Spac...

I've blogged about this before. The Starcruiser Mission Kit by Thomas Salter Toys, 1979. Although arriving in toy shops ove...

Years ago I blogged the cool toy pictured up top - the Starcruiser Mission Kit - by Thomas Salter dated 1979. I was fascinated by it ...

If you caught Bill Everatt's excellent radio interview with Gerry Anderson's son, Jamie, on Friday night you'll have heard a ta...